Not only have gender-related leadership conversations emerged lately in the media, the attraction, retention, and development of talented women has become an important issue for many employers in recent years. Organizations are increasingly recognizing the need to develop and support more female leaders in their workplace.
Increasingly, Facebook and other social media postings are entering the courtroom as employers use them as evidence for taking adverse action against employees. Here are two cases regarding Facebook and the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) which serve as models for employers on this issue and offer six (6) important lessons.
Leaders want motivated employees, but often believe that money is the main motivator. Misunderstanding what really motivates employees can have negative consequences when it comes to engaging employees and motivating higher performance.
Understanding the employee engagement definition is on every employer’s priority list these days. The number of companies that want to measure, track, and improve employee engagement in their workplace continues to increase – a testament to engagement’s increasing popularity.
Flexibility has grown to be more commonplace in the workplace in recent years; however, managing flexibility remains a challenge, as evidenced by the 2013 decisions by Yahoo and Best Buy to overhaul their flexibility programs.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) case against U.S. Steel Corp., ruled that random tests for alcohol can be performed on probationary employees who work in safety sensitive positions, and that doing so does not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Training and development is a critical aspect of an organization’s talent management strategy. Every organization needs to invest in it to attract and retain talent and grow their employees’ knowledge base and capabilities. Here are five current trends influencing training and development.
Download this handy printable Daylight Savings Time Change Poster to alert your staff of the impending time change on Sunday March 10, 2013.
Pricing new and highly specialized jobs, salary discrepancies between sources, and making pay adjustments based on mixed rates of salary growth are three common compensation problems many companies are facing. Here’s how to resolve them.
In a PricewaterhouseCoopers study of 1,106 individual executives across 43 countries, researchers found ample evidence to suggest that the effectiveness of executive pay hinges not only on a total dollar amount, but also on several key intangibles. Despite much focus on variable pay as a key element of executive total rewards packages, the PwC study reports that as a performance driver, variable pay is only a part of the story.
