How to Attract, Keep and Motivate Your Workforce

Create a work environment that motivates people toward exceptional performance using the most valued benefits and the PRIDE system.

The e-Learning Jump Page

This is probably the most complete web site devoted exclusively to e-Learning, that also professes to use the internet as the delivery channel. You’ll find lots of useful e-learning information on related web links, conferences, press releases, articles, research topics, reference sources, and organizations. [Babson Insight Annotation]

For Best Results, Forget the Bonus

“Do this and you’ll get that.” These six words sum up the popular way in which American business strives to improve performance in the workplace. And it is very popular. At least three of four American corporations rely on some sort of incentive program. After all, such incentives are basically rewards, and rewards work, don’t they?

The answer, surprisingly, is mostly no. While rewards are effective … [ Read more ]

Salary Expert

This site positions itself as the most complete and accurate resource for compensation data. It provides salary, benefit and cost-of-living information. As the site proclaims, it urges HR professionals to become educated by taking advantage of the sites on-line courses to improve their pay practice knowledge and skills. The site provides extensive data on assessing salaries for 30,000 job titles within certain geographic areas. [Babson … [ Read more ]

Ways of Assessing Talent

Application form, reference and interview. These are some of the traditional techniques still used by employers, but what other tools are available and what national differences can be discerned?

Benefits Link

This site is a benefits information center that provides free compliance information and tools for employee benefit plan sponsors, service providers and participants. One of the primary ways they keep their members abreast on benefit related issues is by obtaining and then publishing many articles and organizing them by topic. The site features a benefits based “Dear Abbey” column and features a searchable database on … [ Read more ]

Special Report on 401(k)s: Dear Prudence

Offering company stock in employee 401(k)s may not always be wise. Just ask Lucent.

Opting for Stock Options

Multinationals are still choosing to offer options. They just need to be tailored to local tastes.

Personality 101: Who Are They?

“Odd about humans: they’ve been trying to categorize and understand themselves ever since ever. Know what? When it comes to personalities, almost every philosophizer has decided on four dominant types. For Hippocrates it was Sanguine, Choleric, Phlegmatic and Melancholic. Jung decided on Feeler, Thinker, Sensor and Intuitor. Keirsey calls them Idealists, Rationals, Guardians and Artisans. At Future Now, we base our profiles on the Myers-Briggs … [ Read more ]

Performing Effective Background Checks

According to recent figures, 69% of organizations claim to perform some sort of checks on potential employees, yet we continually hear about bogus directors or fraudulent CEO’s. This article not only highlights the importance of thoroughly screening applicants, but provides you with handy tips to ensure you don’t regret your recruitment decisions.

Softer Landings For Laid Off Workers

Severance packages are growing more generous as companies position themselves for a recovery.

Why Job Searching is the Second Most Popular Activity on the Internet

With more than 20 million people registered on the monster.com job search site, it’s clear that we are a workforce on the move. In a recent executive education session, Peter Cappelli, director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources, explained how a dramatically different labor market is changing not just the way people are hired and fired, but how they view their jobs, their employers and … [ Read more ]

Jim Clemmer

Training that produces tangible results starts by changing behaviour – which ultimately changes attitudes.

Work Force – HR Trends & Tools for Business Results

Brought to you by Work Force magazine, this site is a good site that ranks high with our HR contacts. It delivers news, feature articles, decision guides, tips and tools on topical issues, a spotlight on reader posed problems, legal spotlight, Vendor directories and case studies. [Babson Insight Annotation]

The Palette of Management Development

The central challenge of management development is to control and manage the learning process of managers, focused on individual development and career success and/or reaching organizational goals.

Life Themes (a.k.a. Sophisticated Selection)

Fast Company offers a 5-part look at the “Life Themes” approach to candidate selection and hiring decisions.
1. How to Hire by wire – [ Read more ]

For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls

Performance appraisals used to be a way to reward employees. Now so-called forced rankings are being used to lay them off. But will you be sued if you use them?

E. F. Schumacher

Some people always tend to clamour for a final solution, as if in life there could ever be a final solution other than death. For constructive work, the principal task is always the restoration of some kind of balance.