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A recent U.S. analysis on the top reasons why employees leave companies points to compensation as the No. 2 reason, preceded only by “personal reasons/life changes.” Perhaps most striking was the differing perceptions about fair pay. Although 73% of employers…
Read More Personal Reasons and Compensation Rank as Top Turnover Causes
Does demographic diversity lead to more innovation, or is it just so much talk? In my own experience, the answer is yes, especially when organizations have educational, business professional, and cultural diversity. Successful demographic diversity requires that management spend more…
Read More Does Demographic Diversity Lead to More Innovation?
There is an urban legend going around that learning is 70:20:10 - meaning that 70% of learning occurs on the job, 20% from mentoring and coaching and 10% from classroom training. This claim comes from experiential learning theory and the…
During the past week, Zenefits’ founder and CEO, Conrad Parker, resigned over a breaking scandal that Zenefits had hired benefits brokers who were not licensed to sell Zenefits’ services in Washington State and other jurisdictions. And worse, that Zenefits had…
Lately, some pundits have been critical of employee engagement and its research. Gallup is arguably the most prolific researcher of employee engagement and has been publishing its State of the Global Workforce report for 16 years. In its latest report,…
I had just finished building a great team of recruiters and sourcers, refined our branding and social marketing, and trained management on the new applicant tracking system. We were ready to shift into high gear for serious recruiting to add…
Read More The Often Ignored Importance of Getting Pay Right!
When I began consulting, a human resources leader called me from a successful, innovative San Francisco biotech company to discuss diversity: “We haven’t moved the needle. We are looking for solutions that work.” I told him he was not alone. …
Read More Traditional diversity initiatives haven’t moved the needle. These seven strategies will…
A recent survey from Robert Half shows that while Chief Financial Officers want to expand health and wellness benefits, employees prefer additional vacation days, telecommuting options, and non-traditional work hours[i]. CFOs and employees do agree, however, on the popularity of…
Read More Will Perks and Wellness Benefits Alone Enable You to Compete in a Tight Labor Market?
Wharton professor Peter Cappelli observes that the staffing of human resources departments is cyclical[i] - staffing goes up in expanding economies and down during recessions. Unfortunately, when human resource staffs are cut back during recessions, businesses lose their talent management…
Read More The key to retaining employees is in making the talent management pivot!
At a recent workshop on strategic human resources, an attendee asked “How do you prepare a human capital plan?” It’s a timely topic, since Q4 is often when annual plans and strategic plans are written for the following business year…
Read More Human capital plans go a long way toward improving business strategy success!
