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A recent survey from job site Glassdoor finds that today’s workers expect companies to take a stance on political and social issues. But in a country divided, is this likely to have a positive impact on the entire employee population?
Yesterday we heard from Rick Crossland about how to spot a top performer in an interview. Today we’ll hear more from him, specifically about how managers sometimes look at the wrong attributes in their candidates.
Yes, you read that correctly. There is a CEO who actually makes just as much as his employees! How much, you ask? According to The New York Times, over the next 3 years, everyone at Gravity Payments will be making $70,000 a year—even the CEO.
The holiday season is just around the corner, and busy employees are increasingly doing their shopping at the world’s gigantic electronic marketplace, located conveniently on their office computer. Careless e-mail use can end up as a huge lump of coal in an employer’s stocking — in the form of evidence used against it in litigation. […]
We all know that succession planning is becoming ever more important now that Millennials are entering the workforce, and Baby Boomers are stepping out of it. But for one American organization they’re having a hard time finding people who are Army strong.
Over several recent blog posts, we’ve discussed the importance of finding a good talent fit for open positions and a good fit for the organization as a whole. Getting it wrong can lead to costly turnover and the need to continue spending time and resources on filling the same position over and over again.
There have long been criticisms of the harsh penalties handed down to those convicted of nonviolent drug charges in the United States.
Do you believe in karma? Do you think a person brings upon himself inevitable results, whether they are good or bad? Does what goes around come around? These are some questions business and leadership blogger Dan Oswald ponders. Oswald, CEO of BLR, offered his thoughts on karma and leadership in a recent edition of The […]
The start of a new year is a great time to hire new legal staff. If you’re like many law firms and corporate legal departments in the United States, that’s good news, as litigation and other specialty areas are driving organizations into hiring mode in the beginning of 2019.
Yesterday, we started to look at some of Payscale’s compensation recommendations for workers at all stages of their careers, taken from their report Compensation Challenges for a Multi-Generational Workforce. Today, the rest of the list.