Strategic Planning
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Homeward Bound
For years companies have looked to outsource jobs to cut costs, but now more U.S. employers are looking to beef up operations domestically. It's a trend known as 're-shoring.'
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Korn/Ferry to Pay $80 Million for Leadership Firm
The deal marks the second major acquisition of a leadership consulting firm for Korn/Ferry.
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Don’t Worry If Your Workers Tweet This Story Out, SilkRoad Executive Says
Of the employees surveyed by talent management software-maker SilkRoad, 43 percent worked for organizations that allowed total access to social media, 24 percent said access was monitored, and 16 percent had social media access blocked by their employer.
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Chicago Teachers Strike Could Offer a Lesson on Performance Evaluations
Performance evaluation “is a nationwide issue—and it's an issue that is not going away,” said Norm Solomon, a professor of management at Fairfield University in Connecticut. “I don't think anybody should be surprised that this issue is coming to the fore.
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Woodbury Reps Set to Cash In: Recruiters
Giving reps stay bonuses while a broker-dealer was on the block was considered highly unusual at the time but also a smart way to keep brokers from leaving before a sale was announced.
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Companies Can Name Their Stars but Struggle to Retain Them
Just 76 percent of organizations surveyed say they are successful at retaining star talent yet stubbornly high unemployment has lulled companies into believing they no longer need to be aggressive in recruiting and retention, according to a Sibson study.
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Staffing Firms Announce Strategic Partnerships
The alliance is aimed at driving recruitment process outsourcing and managed service provider solutions, as well as retained executive search and talent advisory services.
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Podcast: Creating a New Contingent Culture
The CYA Report podcast is a partnership between Workforce Management and Fistful of Talent. In this special edition, Workforce Management contributors Ed Frauenheim and Kris Dunn discuss the growing need to show contingent workers more love.
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Auto Industry Execs: We're Hiring
In the past year, IAC Group North America, the big interior supplier, has hired about 350 employees at its Belvidere, Illinois, plant to supply interiors for the Dodge Dart and Jeep Patriot and Compass made at Chrysler Group's plant there.
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Wall St. Jobs Grow, Defying Forecasts
Surprising resilience, as employment rolls rise 2 percent in 12 months. Hot area: compliance.
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Yahoo PR Head Out in Wake of CEO Scott Thompson's Exit, Source Says
Amanda Pires joined her former boss in mid-April, replacing former communications chief Eric Brown. She's now leaving, according to a person familiar with the matter. Her Yahoo cellphone number has been disconnected, and Pires did not return messages sent to her through LinkedIn and Facebook.
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General Motors CEO Dan Akerson Reveals His Succession Preference
"My preference would be for it to be an internal candidate just because as you might expect, in any company in any industry, it's less disruptive," GM CEO Dan Akerson said in Beijing during his keynote address at the 2012 Automotive News China Conference.
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Behind the Management Shake-Up at Financial Firm LPL
Outsiders said such changes in management were to be expected in a company that has evolved over the past decade from a closely held, private firm to a publicly traded company with a market capitalization of $4 billion.
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How to Find the Right IT Help
Is outsourcing your IT upkeep right for your company—and if so, how can you find the right consultant? Here are some key questions to consider.
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Hiring Plans Forecast to Reach 2008 Levels
Hiring plans of U.S. employers for the second quarter are the highest since 2008, according to the new employment outlook survey released today by ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN), one of the world's largest staffing firms.
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Extreme Close-up: Report Says Workers Fired After Complaining About Camera
Two garbage workers in British Columbia say they were fired because they complained publicly about a surveillance camera being installed in their truck.
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Staffing a Chief Worry for Health Care IT
A Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey found that almost 90 percent of respondents plan to complete their conversion to the new federally mandated ICD-10 medical codes used to report medical diagnoses and inpatient procedures by the Oct. 31, 2013, deadline.
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IT Employment Hits All-Time High
On an annual basis, IT jobs were up 3.4 percent in 2011, more than double the rate of growth that IT employment experienced in 2010 of 1.5 percent.
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Labor Department Guide Helps Women Find Green Jobs
The guide focuses on helping workers learn about a range of in-demand and emerging jobs, as well as job training opportunities and career development tools, the agency said.
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Selling Cars Online Is More than a Typical Sales Job
Moving from the showroom to the Internet desk can be a tough transition for a salesperson. Internet car sales require a different skill set from showroom car sales. But if a salesperson succeeds, the payoff is sizable.
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Push for Green Jobs: An Interview With David Foster of the Blue Green Alliance
The executive director of the not-for-profit group Blue Green Alliance is an advocate for renewable energy, recycling and energy efficiency, all things he says will help push our overall economy forward.
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CarMax Plans to Hire Nearly 1,000 in U.S.
The Richmond, Virginia, used-car retailer said Jan. 23 that it is recruiting for positions in sales and service operations, including detailers and technicians, with additional positions in purchasing and the business office.
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Grads Snag Highest Wages Among Securities Firms
Securities employers paid grads an average starting salary of $58,571. Overall, they provided 42,000 jobs to the Class of 2011.
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Help Wanted: Vets, Foreign Workers Sought by U.S. Organizations
A new SHRM survey, ‘Global Competition and Hiring Strategies,' marks the third and final survey in a series by SHRM that explores the ongoing impact of the recession.
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Preventing Employee Burnout: Customized Solutions
Employers are demanding more while employees are engaging less, but there is one way to keep your best workers from checking out completely—recognizing who they are and rewarding them accordingly
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EAPs: First Responders in a ‘Work-More Economy’
Employee assistance providers say they continue to see a continued spike in employee calls for help in coping with added work pressures.
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Worker ‘Gas Tanks’ Close to Empty
Scholars say employees have a reservoir of physical and psychological resources for fueling their work contributions—and those tanks are running low.
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Companies Pushing Workers Over the Limit
Like Charlie Chaplin's character in the comedy Modern Times about an assembly-line worker who loses it after tightening one bolt too many, HR consultant Art Quinn says that when employees are pushed to their limits, the workplace can be a dehumanizing place.
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Perhaps Your Workers Are Entitled to New Titles
A promotion can do a lot to make up for the longer hours and extra duties that many workers have wrestled with in the past couple of years. But firms often fail to see where employees who are learning on the job might fit into new roles.
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Democracy at Work: 5 Questions With Traci Fenton, Founder and CEO of WorldBlu
Many people like to keep politics out of the workplace. But to Traci Fenton, what workplaces badly need is the infusion of a political idea: democracy.
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Facebook: The New Recruit in the Recruiting Game
Watch out LinkedIn: a raft of new recruiting apps help companies better scout for talent from inside Facebook, the 800 million member social network.
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Detroit 3 Salaried Labor Costs to Overtake UAW Hourly Costs, Researcher Says
For the first time in modern history, overall salaried labor costs next year at the Detroit 3 are expected to exceed those of all UAW-represented factory workers, says Sean McAlinden, chief economist for the Center for Automotive Research.
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When Johnny or Janey Comes Marching Home
Veterans find it's a tough terrain in getting from the battlefield to their chosen field.
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Effective Talent Assessment Starts (and Ends) With Leadership
A bad hiring decision can cost a company more than 1.5 times the mis-hire's salary, depending on the level of the role. With the right assessment, businesses can avoid this cost.
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Tech Tools for Hiring Disabled Candidates
Here are some handy tools when considering hiring disabled workers.
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Health Care Sees Little Hiring in October
The health care industry saw little job creation in October, adding about 11,600 positions, while the overall U.S. unemployment rate was pegged at 9 percent.
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Hewlett-Packard's Sales Job
In 2010, Hewlett-Packard Co. launched HP Sales University on its campus in Plano, Texas, far from its Silicon Valley headquarters. The purpose: develop core business skills and collaboration among its top salespeople.
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California Laws Bar Credit, E-Verify Checks of Most Employees
On the federal level, observers cited an October hearing by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as a warning that employers should brace themselves for such legislation.
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Mercer CEO Resigns to Head Retirement Policy Center
The purpose of the center, Marsh & McLennan announced Oct. 4, ‘will be to become a catalyst for new ideas and perspectives on retirement and to educate the public and key constituents on retirement public policy issues.’
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Almost Half of All New Doctors Get 100 Job Offers
Despite the favorable job market, some new doctors are unhappy about their choice of profession. The survey found that 28 percent said they would select another field if they had to do their education over again.
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Successful Staffing Strategies
Staffing firms and corporate human resources executives offer their best practices on developing a contingent labor strategy.
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Jobs' Hush-Hush Succession Plan Unveiled as Apple CEO Steps Down
Tim Cook, who took over Apple’s day-to-day operations after Steve Jobs went on his third leave of absence because of ongoing health problems, gets Jobs’ recommendation for the company’s top post.
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Newell Rubbermaid Aspires to Grow Leaders
Evolving from holding company to product innovator, the 108-year-old consumer products firm ramps up leadership for an exclusive group of senior managers.
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Tips for Talent Management in the Social Media Realm
While cash incentives are still king in the tech scene, more and more companies are turning to social media as a tool to source and recruit talent.
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NASA's Mission: Launching More Young Careers
Because of a big recruitment surge in the mid-1980s, followed by a hiring freeze lasting through most of the 1990s, the average employee age at NASA exceeded 47 by 2007 and less than 20 percent of the federal agency’s workers were under 40.
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Survey Shows Talent Shortage Grows Despite High Unemployment
The annual Talent Shortage Survey shows that 52 percent of U.S. employers are experiencing difficulty filling key positions within their organizations, up from 14 percent in 2010.
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Aon Hewitt Chief Resigns for New CEO Job
Chicago-based Aon named two senior executives of Aon Hewitt as co-CEOs of the benefits consultant, effective immediately: Kristi Savacool, CEO of benefits administration, and Baljit Dail, CEO of consulting.
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Trendy Topics Grab Ink, but HR Hot Line Reveals Basic Workplace Worries
While workplace issues such as bedbugs, social media and background checks have been heavily covered in the mainstream and business media, a recent top 10 list indicates that HR frets about such day-to-day issues as FMLA, performance management, discipline and termination.
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Is There a Bias Against Hiring the Jobless?
Experts contend that employers increasingly discriminate against jobless Americans in hiring decisions, and such practices could violate equal opportunity laws.
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How to Hire 50,000 People in One Day
Start thinking more like a director of sales, monitor the volume in your sales funnel and close candidates quickly—and you’ve got a chance.
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Create a Great Place to Work in Four Easy (and Four Hard) Steps
Employees and candidates alike are skeptical of companies that spend money to chase the easy parts of the great place to work award without attempting the hard stuff.
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Gay Groups Refocus on Workplace
Efforts to bar employment discrimination against gays on a national level date back to 1974, and the ENDA legislation itself has floundered in Congress since 1994. Opponents contend the act would create a more litigious workplace.
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Companies Focus Their Attention on Flexibility
To limit contingent staffing, some companies are making permanent employees more agile.
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A Strategic Suggestion for Effective Organizations Get Rid of Job Descriptions
In an attempt to be clear about telling individuals what they need to do, job descriptions can be faulted for implying what they don’t need to do and providing a convenient excuse for not doing things.
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The Last Word: Youth and Consequences
Used to succeeding by doing all the right things, millennials assumed attending a good college and achieving a high GPA would just naturally result in a fabulous job. Unemployment was unthinkable.
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Programs Help Women Take the Lead
Not since the 1970s and 1980s has there been such a push to help women find their way into the C-suite. With a record number of women earning college degrees, such programs are critical in making more cracks in the glass ceiling.
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Some Companies Are Playing to the 'Crowd'
Crowd sourcing can boost productivity and raise morale because staff members feel involved in problem solving, rather than passive recipients of executive decisions.
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Protective Life Corp. Optimas Award Winner for Partnership
For working with Virgin HealthMiles to develop a wellness strategy that effectively engages employees in their health and well-being, Protective Life is the winner of the 2010 Optimas Award Partnership.
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GameStop Corp. Optimas Award Winner for Innovation
For solving an HR challenge with originality and having a clear understanding of its employees, GameStop wins the Optimas Award for Innovation.
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Oppenheimer Funds Inc. Optimas Award Winner for Managing Change
For its ability to swiftly respond to the economic downturn, restore customer confidence and increase employee skills with a new corporate model, OppenheimerFunds is the winner of the 2010 Optimas Award for Managing Change.
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Microsoft Corp. Optimas Award Winner for Corporate Citizenship
For its efforts at helping leaders see how corporate citizenship can be strategic, Microsoft is the winner of this year’s Optimas Award for Corporate Citizenship.
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Email Dumpster Diving and LinkedIn Reviews Can Reveal Who's Leaving the Company
Don't hate me because I've got a plan. Hate me because I’m treating human capital like any other marketplace and making measured bets based on the best facts I can find, not on emotion.
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Recruiters Look to Be Big Man on Campus
Employers try to put the best face on their organization as they recruit on campus this fall in search of fresh talent.
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Report: Medical Malpractice Costs Expected to Rise
The Aon Risk Solutions report anticipates that 2009 claims costs will exceed $8.6 billion, with claims primarily stemming from key hospital risk areas—obstetrics units and emergency departments—that make up more than one-quarter of expected expenses.
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The Last Word Our Mission
Workforce Management ’s new editor plans to build on the publication's heritage by bringing even more depth, creativity and discipline to the magazine, website and e-newsletters.
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Recalculating Pension Risk Following Health Reform
Commentary: Pension managers might want to revisit life expectancy calculations in the wake of health reform, according to actuarial expert Gordon Fletcher. Improved access to medical care could extend life span, based on the East German experience after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Serious Progress in Strategic Workforce Planning
A Conference Board study contains case histories of a handful of early adopters of strategic workforce planning, showing how they’ve forged ahead in linking human capital development with strategic goals.
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The Road to Recovery Four Crucial Steps to Regain Employees' Trust
As the recession wanes, it's likely some of your best talent will head for the exits. Employees hang tight when times are tough. But don’t confuse stability with loyalty. Your people have been in survival mode.
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A Case for Poaching
University researchers assert that resentment over 'lateral hiring' is not only unjustified, but is damaging to workers, the economy and the angered employers themselves.
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Taking Auto Enrollment and Auto Contribution Escalation to the Next Level
According to Employee Benefit Research Institute findings, the typical low-income worker, in particular, will need to save significantly more than he or she does today in order to achieve retirement income security.
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First Mover vs. Disruptor How Would You Change HR if You Could Start From Scratch
Without question, first-mover advantage is great to have. However, here’s an alternative view: The first-mover advantage can and will diminish over time, especially as that nimble approach/solution you started with grows into a legacy battleship that’s hard to move and vulnerable to the disruptor.
