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Want a Loyal Workforce? Build an Ethical Corporation
Want a Loyal Workforce? Build an Ethical Corporation By Rushworth M. Kidder What’s the price of loyalty? It’s an old and cynical question. Roughly translated, it means, “What will it take to buy you off?” For global corporations, there’s a far more important question: “What’s the value of loyalty?” How important is it to have [...]
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Changing the Culture and Improving Performance
Changing the Culture and Improving Performance By Robert Angel “When the responsibility for different aspects of the solution rests in different places, it’s often hard to muster the organizational resolve to pull in the right people, unclog bottlenecks, and make effective decisions………[companies experience]a lack of ownership, a failure to choose the right features, and an [...]
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Debunking the Myths around Work/Life Balance
Debunking the myths around Work/Life Balance By Peter Langford and Louise Parkes Work/life Balance has often been touted as a key to attracting and retaining staff. However, as Peter Langford and Louise Parkes write, employees don’t care much for the concept of striking a balance between their personal and work lives. AS ORGANIZATIONS face a [...]
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Connecting People to What Matters
It’s 2008: Do You Know Where Your Talent Is? Connecting People to What Matters Part 2 of a Deloitte Research Series on Talent Management By Robin Athey “Connecting” matters. CEOs talk about the need to connect with customers and suppliers, across teams and silos, and to meet big goals. New hires are encouraged to connect [...]
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Why Acquisition and Retention Strategies Don’t Work
It’s 2008: Do You Know Where Your Talent Is? Why Acquisition and Retention Strategies Don’t Work Part 1 of a Deloitte Research Series on Talent Management By Robin Athey Despite millions of unemployed workers, there is an acute shortage of talent: science educators to teach the next generation of chemists, health care professionals of all [...]
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Impact of Onboarding and Initial Training Programs on the Success of Hires
Impact of Onboarding and Initial Training Programs on the Success of Hires. By Vikki Ali, Barrett Rose & Lee, Inc. Employee ‘onboarding’, a talent management term, is a rebirthing of the age-old concept of new hire orientation. Best defined as a systematic and comprehensive approach to orienting a new employee to help them get “on [...]
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What is your Hiring Batting Average?
What Is Your Hiring Batting Average? Even Jack Welch recommends that you use a quality of hire metric By Dr. John Sullivan I am an unabashed follower of the HR philosophy of Jack Welch, former CEO of GE. He is a proponent of a “business-like” approach to HR that emphasizes its critical role in impacting [...]
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Beauty and Success
To those that have, shall be given The Economist December 19, 2007 The ugly are one of the few groups against whom it is still legal to discriminate. Unfortunately for them, there are good reasons why beauty and success go hand in hand. IMAGINE you have two candidates for a job. They are both of the [...]
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Keeping Employees Engaged and Productive in a Downturn
Steps to Keep Employees Engaged and Productive in a Downturn A Watson Wyatt Report As the economic downturn continues, ensuring that employees are engaged is crucial to keep workplace morale and productivity high. A recent Watson Wyatt report found that when employees are highly engaged, their companies enjoy 26% higher employee productivity, have lower turnover [...]
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