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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007An amusing spoof article on workforce trends at The Spoof:
A six-year study by industrial psychologists, the first of its kind, reveals that inspirational posters in company cafeterias and employee lounges cause depression among workers and may trigger homicidal rages.
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Inspirational posters in the workplace became popular in the 80’s as globalization first began to exert downward [...]
Leadership Engagement Factors
Thursday, May 24th, 2007ISR polled 2,157 male senior leaders and 731 female senior leaders in 11 multinational firms in various industries and found that the factors that engage senior organizational leaders differ by gender.
The top engagement driver for both genders is knowing that the leadership was effective – 24% of female leaders and 26% of male leaders responded [...]
Stress, Job Satisfaction, and Ethics in the Workplace
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007As I was driving into work this morning, I heard a story on NPR about a new study from Deloitte & Touche that examines “what’s going wrong in the workplace, from harassment to embezzlement and theft.” They found that supervisors tend to “set the standard on how to behave.”
At the Deloitte & Touche website, ethical [...]
Planning for the Approaching Shortage of Skilled Workers
Friday, April 6th, 2007Tamara Erickson, one of the authors of the Harvard Press book Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills And Talent” testified before the U.S. Senate last year on workforce trends. Her main points:
The workforce is older, and limited in availability. There will be a shortage of skilled workers of traditional work age [...]
Job Recruitment - Networking Still the Reality
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007So, who do you know?
More workers landed their current job through networking than by any other means.
According to a new Hudson survey a full 73% of managers say their company considers internal candidates to fill a job opening before looking at anyone else. Specifically, 40% of managers say that internal promotions are the best [...]
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