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UAE to be major manpower export destination in 5 years
Bangladesh Economic News | November 15th 2009
http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=8&id=71016&date=2009-11-15 UAE to be major manpower export destination in 5 years By Tanzim Anwar DHAKA, Nov 15 (BSS) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) can be a major destination for skilled and read more
Sick Leave vs. the H1N1 Virus: Can You Afford to Stay Home Sick
Employee Rights | November 15th 2009 by Shalanda Ballard
The H1N1 virus is in 48 of the 50 states and has already infected as many as 5.7 million Americans. To stop this epidemic, the Center for Disease Control has advised employees to stay home until 24 hours after their flu-like symptoms disappear. But read more
Punk Rock HR Question: Webcams and Pervy Dudes
Punk Rock Human Resources | November 14th 2009 by laurie ruettimann
We’re on a weird coworker theme, this week. This note is from Natasha. I started a new job. I love the new job. Great company culture. Open, forward thinking. I dig it. However…there is one small oddity. I am located in a small area ( read more
Become an HR consultant
Consultant Blog from Consultant Journal | November 14th 2009
Become an HR consultant and take control of your career. HR (human resources) consultants across Canada and the US are benefiting from flexible schedules and other benefits of consulting. HR consulting is an exciting choice for entry-l read more
Lucentbyte Media Technologies Partners with Long Reach Corporatio…
CEOWORLD Magazine | November 13th 2009 by Amarendra bhushan Dhiraj
Lucentbyte Media Technologies today announced the company has been appointed Greece and India National Level Partner for info@hand. The partnership will allow Lucentbyte Media Technologies to engage more closely with new info@hand clients, execute read more
Is it customer service or customer engagement?
The CUEHub | November 13th 2009 by doron
“Hello?” “Hi, is this Dell Technical Support?” “Uh, no, it’s your son in law” “Oh, well my computer is really slow can you help me?” “Sure, but it’s your son in law” “Ok, I read more
F@%k It Friday: Crying at Work
Punk Rock Human Resources | November 13th 2009 by laurie ruettimann
I was about to tell you that I never cry at work — but I would be lying, yo. The first time I remember crying at work was 1991. I was just a kid and I worked at Here’s Hollywood Video in Palatine, IL. I overheard an assistant manager call me read more
This Week's Featured Possibility Maximizer: Halogen Software's Ra…
Maximize Possibility | November 13th 2009 by Chris Young
Every Friday I like to share with you a resource that I feel will help you to Maximize Possibility in your professional life and improve your performance at work. This week I've got an exciting new resource that I think you will really enjoy. Check i read more
Walt Disney Co. continues to shuffle the deck
George S May Blog | November 12th 2009 by frederick
In quite an unordinary move, Walt Disney Co. has decided to shuffle up the responsibilities of a couple of its top executives. “CEO Robert Iger said Thursday that Chief Financial Officer Tom Staggs, 49, will become chairman of Walt Disney Parks read more
Are you doing any Christmas training with your team?
The CUEHub | November 12th 2009 by doron
It’s customary for most businesses to have a pre-Christmas meeting to discuss plans and initiatives for the upcoming season. These meetings with your team are of critical importance and if you don’t have one schedule, my suggestion is to have one read more
More Jobs Lost at Time, Inc.
Corra's Daily Planet | November 12th 2009
The media slaughter continues. While reports came in last month that the bleeding in most print publications has slowed, and that the employment layoffs of dwindled somewhat in the media industry. There was some optimism, as faint as it was, read more
Retail Customer Service
Punk Rock Human Resources | November 12th 2009 by laurie ruettimann
I really don’t care about good customer service. I don’t want you to go above and beyond. You don’t need to wow me. You barely make enough money to pay your rent and utilities. I want you to relax. Please don’t worry about smi read more
Advantages of Outsourcing: For Small Business
Finance Article Directory | November 12th 2009 by LoveBlogEarn
The advantages of outsourcing can be significant for small business owners and for the business. Reviewing the history of outsourcing as a business strategy demonstrates that the need for specialized and low cost labor was a key driver. Small busines read more
How to make positive training programs attractive to OHS professi…
Safety At Work | November 11th 2009 by Kevin Jones
Yesterday's article on positive training programs and behaviour-based safety (BBS) has generated a great deal of interest and attention.The article's title should maybe have specified the "OHS context". Like with Return-To-Work, OHS profe read more
Voice of the Employee: Key to Business Survival
Allegiance Customer & Employee Loyalty and Engagement Blog | November 11th 2009 by Kimberly Mathie
This blog post discusses the results of a quantitative survey that Allegiance recently conducted with voice of the employee (VOE) practitioners, including human resource vice presidents, directors and managers, as well as other HR-related titles. It read more
Translations of Manuals and Handbooks
Translation Blog | November 11th 2009
One of the most essential aspects of multinational companies in the 21st century is uniformity of parts, processes, procedures, etc. The offices and factories of the most successful companies look and operate exactly, or nearly exactly, the same at a read more
Management Training and Development â?? the Role of the Line Man…
Personal Development Plans | November 11th 2009 by Tom Miller
The potential advantages of line manager involvement in learning and development has long been recognised. The line manager is in a unique position to reinforce learning from management training or other forms of development, by integrating them into read more
Favorite video: Align training, HR, and strategy (part 1 of 9)
Aaron Hoos - Business Writer | November 11th 2009 by Aaron Hoos
The alignment/misalignment of training, HR, and strategy is a huge, huge problem. Businesses have strategies and they try to implement them but don’t always dial HR (and their training) into the same loop. So HR hires to fill conventional roles read more
Can Finance Managers Count CSR?
The Green Economy Post | November 11th 2009 by Tracey de Morsella
The standand approach to finance is often the sad antithesis of corporate social responsibility. Most Finance managers have a perception of CSR as simply a cost center and not a revenue generator.Cohen provides an explanation of how there is a basis read more
Weird Coworker
Punk Rock Human Resources | November 11th 2009 by laurie ruettimann
This guy needs your help, people. I work in a small office. There’s about 6 people that work in this office, and I work in one room with another employee that I can’t stand. We get along fine on paper because I know how to keep my mou read more
Employee Engagement and Turnover in the Recovery
StrategicPay Blog | November 11th 2009 by Doug Sayed
Earlier this week I posted an review of recent research on how employers are dealing or planning to deal with the upcoming recovery in relation to maintaining employee engagement, while limiting employee turnover at the Compensation Cafe. While some read more
Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations…
make money myself | November 11th 2009 by zc
Editorial Reviews Review “Covering many issues that are pertinent to the UK…a how-to manual.” (Public, February 2009) –This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Human Resources Management for Public and Nonp read more
Finally a Solution to Finding the Right Staff
Strawberry Communications: Writing & PR | November 11th 2009 by Johanna
One of the most important tasks a small business owner will ever face is recruitment. The process is often punctuated with questions about hiring the right people, how to mange them and whether or not the business is sticking to its legal obligations read more
Losing Your Job
Man-Over-Board. | November 10th 2009 by Glenn
It’s not a pleasant prospect, but it could very well be you. Now that unemployment is over 10% and in reality it is probably easily at 20% , if you add the people the government no longer counts. That’s one out of every five people. read more
Learning Solutions Magazine Employee Engagement Book Review
The Engagement Factor | November 10th 2009 by Brad Federman
I almost didn’t review this book for Learning Solutions, because the title didn’t look like it would have much to do with e-Learning. Fortunately, I changed my mind after skimming through the first few pages. After a few years in “the learnin read more
Behavioural-based safety put into context
Safety At Work | November 10th 2009 by Kevin Jones
Yesterday Associate Professor Tony LaMontagne spoke at the monthly networking meeting of the Central Safety Group in Australia. His presentation was based around his research into job stress and its relationship with mental health.LaMontagne was tal read more
3 questions to ask seasonal hire candidates
The CUEHub | November 10th 2009 by doron
If you are looking for temporary seasonal help for your location, you need to make sure you make the right hiring choices from the start. Our current economic situation doesn’t allow for unproductive human assets and we must make sure we have t read more
Conduct Background Checks for Workplace Violence
Corra's Daily Planet | November 10th 2009
Everybody flocks to a fight. From the schoolyard to the factory, nothing like a fistfight to bring people together. It must be part of human nature to be attracted to two people going at it in the old school fashion. Even in the workplace, it read more
Kiddo
Punk Rock Human Resources | November 10th 2009 by laurie ruettimann
A friend of mine called me kiddo. This isn’t anything new. He always calls me kiddo. It’s his thing. The weird part is that, out of the blue, it pissed me off. I thought, “He is three years older than me. What the heck?” So I read more
Investing in people key to success
Bangladesh Economic News | November 9th 2009
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=113395 Invest in people Says the Swisscontact chief in an interview with Md Hasan Bangladesh should pursue strategies followed by other countries in utilising human resources to become a mid- read more
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