Turnover and Retention
Much Employee Creativity Unused on Job
The following is a guest post from The Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, with a few of my thoughts appended thereafter. (Do I sound like a lawyer there, or what?)
At a time when many economists and futurists are pointing to creativity and innovation as one of the cornerstones of U.S. competitiveness in the years ahead, [...]
Proving the Obvious? Good HR is Good Business, Study Finds
This from Tampa Bay Business Journal via the ManagersRealm blog:
According to a recent Gevity Institute study, certain HR practices result in measurable business results.
The study found that small businesses that follow a set of “workforce alignment” employee management strategies achieve 22.1 % higher revenue growth, 23.3 % higher profit growth and 66.8 % less employee [...]
Read, Aimed, FIRED! The First Year on the Job May Be Deadly!
According to some recent studies, almost half of new rookie hires do not make with the company for more than 1 and 1/2 years. And it is not just lower-level employees who don’t make the cut — one study shows that over half of managers and executives don’t survive past the first year of the [...]
The Next Big Wal-Mart Controversy: Rotating Shifts
In what may become the next major employee relations fiasco at Wal-mart, a CNN story reports some unhappyWal-mart employees complaining about what appears to be a “trial balloon” regarding rotating shifts.
As reported in this Cnnmoney.com story:
New Roles for HR Managers
Erexchange.com presents a nicely written article by John Sullivan on three new roles for HR managers.
While not earth-shattering, given many recent discussions about the changing face of HR, the article does an excellent job of describing the three new roles, and some of the responsibilities of each role.
The three new roles are: