Guess Who Works For Free (Or Maybe Just a Dollar)?
Guess who is working for free? No, we don’t mean volunteers at nonprofits. We mean corporate CEOs!
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You Own the Vision to Make Your Company Successful: Now What?
Like the captain of a ship, a leader sets the course or vision for their company. But how do you get others to follow your vision? Harder yet, how do you get others to be inspired by your vision?
Training Budgets Remain Largely Flat in 2022, But Allocations Shift
With growing wage pressure, historic inflation, and recession fears on the rise heading into 2023, one might expect training and development budgets to be on the chopping block for many organizations, as they have so often been in the past when money got tight. Fortunately, recent data suggests that annual U.S. training expenditures per employee […]
Sixth Circuit Overturns $2.8M ERISA Award for Unjust Enrichment
Simply paying an aggrieved plan participant for unpaid benefits due was enough to make him whole under ERISA, so no further money damages were warranted as a form of equitable relief, a federal appeals court has ruled. With this conclusion, a majority of the full en banc 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned an earlier ruling […]
America’s Most Needed Occupations and What They Pay
Not every job in America is as lavish as the C-suite. Some jobs force workers to get down and dirty, or even put employees lives at risk. These jobs are the backbone of the United States, and as Mike Rowe—of the hit televisions show Dirty Jobs—would say, “Someone has to do it!” In honor of […]
Disaster Preparedness Checklist for Employers: Part 1
As the 2007 hurricane season starts today (June 1), it’s time for employers to review and update their disaster preparedness and response plans. And it’s time to review our updated checklist, originally prepared following our own and others’ experiences from the 2005 hurricane season, including Hurricane Katrina. The time is right for all employers to […]
Transparent, Ongoing Communication Key to Total Rewards Strategy
If you are planning to develop or make changes to your current total rewards program, you will likely seek input from several external sources, including benchmarking data. But you will also need to gather substantial internal input, such as leadership’s philosophy towards total rewards, and, perhaps most importantly, get input from your internal customers.
It’s Called Work for A Reason!
M. Lee Smith Publishers President Dan Oswald reviews the book It’s Called Work for A Reason! Your Success Is Your Own Damn Fault by Larry Winget. Review explains how company president found book’s lessons about work and motivation so important he paid employees to read it. Thief! Liar! Those are just a couple of the […]
Who’s Using Whose HRIS? Survey Says …
Are HRISs taking over HR? Who’s using such systems, whose systems are being used, and what are they being used for? BLR’s recent HRIS survey provides the answers. In June 2012, BLR’s HRIS expert, Holly Jones, surveyed BLR customers on their HRIS use. An audio conference download was offered as premium for survey completion. Just […]
Mentoring: Capture the Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Effect
When legendary songster Tony Bennett collaborated with pop starlet Lady Gaga last year, the partnership seemed unlikely, if not a little crazy. Sixty years and more than a few musical genres, after all, separate the two.