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HR 2013

The Trick In Getting Buy-In From Employee Engagement Skeptics

Of the many obstacles to improving employee engagement in an organization, creating buy-in for employee engagement surveys and respective change initiatives is perhaps one of the most challenging — and the most prolific. Are senior executives actually indifferent about employee engagement? Are managers too close-minded to realize the positive effects of engagement? Are employees too needy or too hard-to-please?

It’s Not Easy, But Here’s Where HR Can Add Value to the Business

We want a seat at the table? We want to add value? We want to positively influence the success of the business? OK, then let’s stop giving away one of our best tools – the art and science of performance improvement! No, not performance management, where managers spend as little time as possible each year providing feedback to employees that is as bland as possible.

Five Reasons Your Employees Like It When You Stay Home

It’s Tuesday, and you wake up feeling a little under the weather. Or, today is that workshop you enrolled in. Or, today your new refrigerator is being delivered … sometime between 8 am and 4 pm. Whatever the reason, you’re not coming into work today. And when your employees heard the news, they popped their heads over their cubes, gave each other a “high five,” and began grinning ear to ear.

My Rules For Hugging at the Office

Hello. My name is Tim Sackett, and I’m a hugger. Being a hugger can make for some awkward moments. What if the other person isn’t expecting a hug, or doesn’t want to hug, and you’re coming in arms-wide-open!? Fast Company had an article recently titled To Hug Or Not To Hug At Work?, that delved into this subject. Here’s a piece from the article:

In Today’s World, All Your Employees Must be Company Strategists

Strategy is one of my passions. I’m fortunate that helping clients formulate strategy is also my job. Indeed, my title is Vice President, Client Strategy and Consulting. I greatly enjoy my work helping organizations of all stripes develop a strategy for proactive management of their company culture. Yet, I also believe that everyone is (or should be) strategist in their organization.

How to easily find active candidates and recruiters on LinkedIn

The trick to using LinkedIn well is to put yourself in the mindset of the 'other side'. So if you are a candidate think like a recruiter, and if you are a recruiter, think like a candidate.

Robert Half's "Overweight" Rating Reaffirmed at Barclays Capital

's stock had its "overweight" rating restated by analysts at Barclays Capital in a research report issued to clients and investors on Monday, AnalystRatings.Net reports.

SMBs Bullish(er) For 2013

According to the recent Business Confidence Survey by Insperity, small business owners are showing a willingness to hire more employees amidst signs of expanding business activity.

More on CFPB employee vote to unionize

As we reported last week, the National Treasury Employees Union (NTU) won an election to represent over 800 of the CFPB’s 1,200 employees. The vote was 378 in favor and 86 against....By: Ballard Spahr LLP

Record $240M Award for Abuse of Disabled Workers Slashed to $1.6M

A jury verdict earlier this month to mentally disabled workers who were abused and forced to live in a “house of horrors” has been drastically slashed after trial....By: Lawyers.com