Innovation is a hot topic these days. What creates an innovative culture; one that drives your next blockbuster product or service? How do you identify the talent and set the stage to foster innovation? The IndustryWeek article titled Where Is Your Company’s Next Big Idea Coming From? focuses primarily on driving innovation in a manufacturing [...]

Online advertised job vacancies were up 18% from March 2006 through March 2007 according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series. The report dices the data by year, months, nation, regions, states, and functions. This chart is interesting especially in light of Manpowers 2007 Talent Shortage Survey results: The top 10 jobs that employers [...]

Once again, we are seeing a nice surface metaphor for another argument where everyone agrees become popular enough to sell books, hit the blogosphere, and even become a marketing theme. Do you remember Im OK, Youre OK? Similar wave. Different decade. But the more things change, the more you see old ideas repackaged. You can [...]

The Internet has made worldwide communication nearly instantaneous. How has that affected the global labor market? The network power of the Internet has shifted time and space for employers. Cycle times are shorter. Additional silos of information connect every day. Technology moves tasks across the globe. Outsourcing cuts expenses. Connectivity shifts the workplace from office [...]

With baby boomers headed towards retirement in record numbers, a rapidly growing tech economy, and lack of computer science graduates, its no wonder that finding good IT managers is getting harder. This lagoon in the big talent pool is drying up. In CIOs Play Waiting Game When Hiring, Robert Half reports that CIOs polled said [...]

How important is employee retention? Is it a more significant business driver than cost control? Read the article about the MetLife study that says keeping key workers happy, challenged and motivated is becoming more important to U.S businesses than controlling costs. The 5th annual MetLife Study of Employee Benefits Trends highlights this important challenge: the [...]

The March issue of the Harvard Business Review has an interesting, comprehensive article titled Maximizing Your Return on People. Authors Laurie Bassi and Daniel McMurrer of McBassi & Company explain New tools can show you which investments in employees are driving company performance now and which you should emphasize to advance your strategic goals. Quantifying [...]

Fay Hansen, writing in Workforce Management magazine online, describes how OFCCP fines could affect your organization in Avoid Getting Sued: Risks and Rewards in Recruitment Record Keeping. The US Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has increased monitoring and enforcement of recruiting practices. For more information, listen to the archived webcast: Understanding OFCCPs New [...]

In this years second edition of the Pan-European HR Barometer, produced by Hewitt Associates for the European Club for human resources (EChr), findings show HR in large firms is having an impact on the business. Much like last year, the study pointed to talent management as the leading way for HR to drive business performance. [...]

Salary.com’s 2006/2007 Employee Satisfaction and Retention Survey is just the latest piece of research to highlight the disconnect between what employees value and what HR professionals perceive to be the most important factors in employee job satisfaction. In fact more than six out of 10 of the employees surveyed said they plan to look for [...]