Benchmarks provide clear standards of performance to compare against. Knowing which benchmarks to use, and which standards to compare against is critical to effective benchmark management. Our Benchmark category focuses on management processes used to evaluate how well your people activities perform in relation to best practices.
Our country was very excited about the change of presidency. Some people were more agitated than excited, but either way, there was a lot of hype, hope, and expectation. It’s interesting to now see how things are changing or not, progressing or not, and how people are reacting to this. Satisfied, or Not… I’m a [...]
Not Again! The news continues to be “increase in jobless claims” and “more layoffs.” I’ve already written (here, here, and here) about the effect [tag]downsizing[/tag] has on a corporation. So why visit this again? As a follow-on to my earlier post on [tag]hiring[/tag] (here). All of this downsizing and uncertainty is creating an opportunity for [...]
Whose Pills? Employee Claims Handbook Constituted Contract (1/2/09) “A Minnesota employee fired for [allegedly] stealing pills got an arbitrator to reverse her termination. Her employer sued, claiming she had no contract and thus could be fired for any reason.” The Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed the arbitrators decision. In this situation, this woman – referred [...]
I know with all my recent posts about the difficulty of the economy and companies downsizing, you might ask yourself, ‘why is Scott writing about hiring?’ Because even in this environment, there are hiring needs – whether it’s because you figure out how to deal with the challenges better, you lose someone you didn’t think [...]
Remember the days in school when you had a test? I remember middle school more than anything else, and I didn’t like having tests. Now I’m not going to say that I never looked on someone else’s paper when we had tests, but my parents raised me that you just didn’t cheat. Period! And I [...]
I wish I were an economist. Actually, I wish I were a good economist, then I could have seen better signs of this ‘[tag]new economy[/tag]‘ we’re under. Don’t you? However, if I were an economist I’d be getting a lot of negative press right now. I mean those poor guys took about a full year [...]
I’ve used the term ‘job fit’ in earlier posts as I comment on how important it is to focus your process of selecting people for roles (not just hiring – but also promotion, transfer, etc.) I noticed today a post by Warren Rutherford identifying different kinds of [tag]job fit[/tag] and thought it valuable to tie [...]
It’s almost 2009 and so we’re starting to see the “Best of 2008″ and the “What’s Ahead for 2009″ articles. One of the ‘what’s ahead’ articles I noticed today is of value for any and every HR leader, business leader, and business owner. What are the key aspects that you as a business leader look [...]
Just what makes employees successful in their jobs? Is it [tag]skills[/tag]? Or is it [tag]abilities[/tag]? Does it end there? More importantly, what is it that makes for [tag]profitable employees[/tag] for your [tag]business[/tag] when they are in your [tag]workforce[/tag]? I noticed a recent excellent post by Jason on “Recruiting Front Lines” discussing skills inventory for employees. [...]
In the News Listening to Bill O’Reilly’s back-up commentators today I was shocked! Although after the last number of years I don’t know why I should be. The big news this week is the allegation that Illinois Governor [tag]Rod Blagojevich[/tag] tried to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder. Also in the [...]
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