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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 ]

Content: Article | Author: Len Schlesinger | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Best Practices, Human Resources

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?

Content: Article | Author: Loren Gary | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

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.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Career, Motivation, Work

The different priorities that employees have can be described by the acronym MORE – Money, Opportunity, Respect, Experience

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Major changes such as mergers, reengineering, enterprise resource planning systems (ERP), and restructuring often result in downsizing. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here are proven alternatives that can help you cut costs while ensuring the commitment of valued employees.

Content: Article | Author: Rick Maurer | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Human Resources, Strategy

Tough “360” reviews and employee ranking are gaining fans. Competency-based performance management is the backbone of most of the alternative approaches.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

Author offers his system of performance review, termed RABOHA (Review and Appraisal Based on Human Attributes).

Content: Article | Author: Shaun H. Ajani | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Human Resources

Before you embark on any kind of team development, it is critical that you understand the implications of the differences between teams and work groups. Then the group can proceed with appropriate planning for its own development in concert with what the organization needs it to be.

Content: Article | Author: Marie J. Kane | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Dr. Charles Albano presents the results and findings of the survey conducted from January through May of 1998 which asked two questions:
(1) What percentage of your potential to contribute to your organization is presently being tapped? and
(2) What stands in the way of contributing more?

Content: Article | Author: Charles Albano | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

POTENTIAL
It shows itself in stages,
Born in risk and blessed by chance,
Tends to lurk in shadows,
Though it likes to be romanced.

The potential of a human
To Contribute is unbound,
When it grows by being matched
To new callings more profound.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Human Resources, Training & Development

Most organizations use their training investments about as strategically as they deploy their office supplies spending. And the impact on customer satisfaction, cost containment or quality improvement is just as useless.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Education, Human Resources | Industry: Education / Training

Many companies are feeling the pressure to employ technology-based training solutions instead of continuing their reliance on traditional classroom training. Some have even taken the plunge with pilot projects, producing both favorable and unfavorable results. But before you go wading into the pricey waters of technology-based training, take the time to look at why many professionals feel it will vastly improve and enhance your … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Terrell L. Perry | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Education, Human Resources | Industry: Education / Training

So you’ve made the decision to use multimedia as part of your overall training strategy. You can take the low cost route and purchase generic off-the-shelf products, or you can expend more of your training budget on your own development. But do you know how to tell the difference between high quality multimedia and multimedia that is substandard (it may do the job … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Terrell L. Perry | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Education, Human Resources | Industry: Education / Training

“In a relatively known and predictable world rational solutions can be planned, for training as for anything else. A programme can be organised and implemented so that a workforce acquires the skills it needs. These skills will be the possessions of individuals. But perhaps we are beginning to see the limitations of this way of understanding things. To conceive learning objectives as WISE and OPEN … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Patricia Bryans, Richard Smith | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

A look at yet another one of the interesting best practices of the US Marine Corps – this time their practive use of HR.

Content: Article | Authors: Dan Carrison, Rod Walsh | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Best Practices, Human Resources

[The concept of] restoration acknowledges that people need to have something “put back”, restored to them through their daily work. This is especially true where the knowledge economy denies people the familiar satisfactions of predictability and of the regular production of tangible goods.

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Motivation, Training & Development

We advocate the need to go beyond training and development because we recognise that neither is enough and each has its characteristic limitations. Development is too open, training not open enough. Training cannot cope with a world of uncertainty, while development may accept it to the point of giving no guidance in how to shape the world. Training cannot deal with a high degree of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Human Resources, Training & Development

America strikes world-weary Europeans as an adolescent nation. It revels in junk food and has adolescent clothes and tastes. It accepts some types of extreme behavior, such as guns and drugs, which some find distasteful. These flaws are balanced as a whole, though, by the enthusiasm of adolescence and the inability to see the downsides of situations. That’s why I like to get to America … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Context Magazine | Subject: Motivation

The enjoyment of property that [man] has in this state [the state of nature] is very unsafe, very unsecure. This makes him willing to quit a condition, which, however free, is full of fears and continual dangers: and it is not without reason, that he seeks out, and is willing to join in society with others, who are already united, or have a mind to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: The Second Treatise on Civil Government | Subjects: Motivation, Organizational Behavior

The key to creating a stable, productive workplace is to put employees in charge of their own success…The developed steps to get there are geared toward giving employees a clear sense of their personal and professional strengths and weaknesses, and consequently, teaching them how those traits can be leveraged to improve both performance and compatibility on the job. To gain this awareness, it is important … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Dinah Daniels | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior