Talent Management
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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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Study Touts the Benefits of Internal Social Networking Sites
A recent study conducted by Baylor University found that developing an internal social networking site could help a company acclimate its new hires into the corporate culture, improve employees' morale and reduce turnover rates.
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New Employees: 'We Were Jobbed About This Job'
Companies aren't giving candidates a realistic picture of jobs, leading to 'buyer's remorse,' report says.
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Average Salary for Technology Professional Rises 5.3 Percent: Survey
The average salary for technology professionals rose 5.3 percent in 2012—the largest increase in a decade, according to a Dice Holdings Inc. salary survey.
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When Innovation Turns Into Exasperation
Failed inventions and initiatives can give rise to painful—unproductive—“innovation trauma.”
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Not Your Grandfather's Industrial Lab
Nowadays, companies ranging from high-tech firms to service companies have invested in a new generation of idea factories. They share one trait: a mantra that time equals money.
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Innovative Thoughts on Innovation
Key takeaways from experts in the innovation arena
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Survey Shows Lack of Innovation Motivation
Four in 10 organizations see themselves as ineffective at fostering innovation, and there's a mismatch between what companies are doing and what they say is effective when it comes to inspiring inventiveness.
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Workforce Game Changers Call for More Attention to Innovation
To round out our exploration of innovation in the workforce, we turned to our Game Changers. Below are questions we asked them and some of their provocative answers.
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Brighter Ideas
To cook up greater creativity, organizations ought to update their approach to collaboration, compensation and culture.
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Risky Business People: Study Finds 1 in 8 Workers Bring Potential Peril to Their Company
Organizations need to recognize the advantages and disadvantages of behavioral risk of all employees. Doing so allows an organization to manage risk in a constructive way, according to a study published by SHL, an Atlanta-based talent management company.
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No Joke: Stand-Up Comedy Training for Employees Can Improve Workplace Culture
Infusing comedy into workplace culture has the potential to improve employee communication skills, build a tight-knit team of employees and lower turnover rate.
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CareerBuilder: More Employers to Use Temps
Four in ten employers plan to bring in temporary and contract workers next year, up from 36 percent in last year’s survey and 34 percent in the survey from two years ago.
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Giving Voice to Recruits
Software by HarQen Inc. enables automated phone screening of applicants, but the technology takes getting used to.
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2013: A Time for Re-imagining How Work Gets Done
How work gets done, who does it and the tools they use to accomplish the task are all shifting as the new year approaches.
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2013 Employment Forecast: A Fiscal Cliffhanger
How well the job market recovers in the next 12 months could depend on what Congress decides in the next few weeks.
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It’s Mobile HR Software, but It’s Not an App
Many tech vendors offer their services via websites that have been optimized to work on smartphones as an alternative to providing a true mobile app.
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Mobile HR Apps Picking Up Steam
Next year, payroll and timekeeping are expected to equal or overtake recruiting as the top human resources use for smartphone apps, the latest sign mobile-native software is starting to stick.
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Catalysts of Creative Destruction
Despite the hype about private equity and job loss, they have little net effect on employment levels.
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Private Equity Turns and Burns … Its Past
While horror stories exist, in some cases private equity takeovers can lead to healthy updates to management methods and practices.
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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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An Empty Stocking for Garbage Workers
Consumer Reports has released its annual survey on holiday tipping, and, again, garbage collectors rank at the bottom as the least-tipped service-provider.
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Employee Opinion of Health Care Benefits Value Drops: Mercer
Thirty-six percent of employees polled in Mercer's annual Workplace Survey indicated that their out-of-pocket costs were 'definitely' commensurate with the health benefits they receive through their employer, down from 44 percent in 2011 and 38 percent in 2010.
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Younger Workers Taking a Pass on Taking Over the Business
So-called NextGen financial advisers are reluctant to buy into the business. The trend is potentially troublesome for owners of financial advisory firms who have been banking on selling their businesses to junior advisers.
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How LinkedIn Plans to Solve the World's Skills Gap
Matching people and skills with available jobs
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ManpowerGroup CEO Sheds President Title
ManpowerGroup Inc. Chairman, President and CEO Jeffrey Joerres is handing off the president role to Jonas Prising and Darryl Green. Both executives will still report to Joerres, who will keep the chairman and CEO roles.
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Whirlpool Warms Up to E-Learning
Until the recession hit, the U.S.-based appliance-maker steadfastly avoided online training in favor of classrooms. Now, it's a proponent of virtual online learning.
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Advisers Reveal the Proper Care and Feeding of Interns
Skip the clerical work. Bring on the client meetings, mentoring and day-to-day business.
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It’s in the New Game: How Electronic Arts Revamped Recruiting, Itself
To shift from retail to online sales, the game-maker used LinkedIn, other tools to hire creatively as part of a global talent overhaul.
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Survey: Time Wasted on Poor Performers
Supervisors spend 17 percent of their time, or nearly one day per week, overseeing poorly performing employees.
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LinkedIn Locks Up Major Recruiting Market Share
In four years, the 187 million member business network has amassed 13,700 corporate customers for its recruiting software and related services.
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Recruiting Software Goes Social
Over the past several months, software vendors across the industry have announced social-recruiting releases and acquisitions.
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Sandy Prompts Companies to Improvise People Management
Telecommuting policies and rented hotel space help organizations cope with the storm.
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New York City Media Agencies Set Up 'Pop-Up' Shops
Businesses set up shop at hotels and cafes to power through electricity outages and complete projects on deadline.
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Democrats and Republicans Agree—Workplace Flexibility Key to Job Satisfaction
Congressional staff members and 25 members of Congress participated in a SHRM survey, which found that 55 percent feel that ‘flexibility to balance work and life issues’ is very important, but only 26 percent are very satisfied with the flexibility in their own workplace.
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Kinder and Gentler: The New Path to Reducing Employee Turnover
Auto dealers are moving toward a more flexible, more enjoyable, less rule-restricted workplace—in hopes of keeping staffs content and motivated enough to stay on the job.
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Big Data’s Big Promise
Every software provider in the industry wants to be the one to help companies with workforce analytics.
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ADP Pushes Further into HR Software
ADP is making more noise in an HR software market that has heated up dramatically in the past year.
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American Staffing Association Names 2013 Board of Directors
The American Staffing Association's 2013 board of directors was elected during the organization's Staffing World show earlier this month in Las Vegas. Representatives from 24 member staffing companies serve on the board.
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Report: People Management Propels Profits
A technology firm and a supermarket chain are among companies that validate a recent report that found that proper management techniques push companies from good to great.
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Johns Hopkins Shooting Spurs Improvements to Hospital's Workplace Violence Response Program
Following the shooting, part of the hospital's efforts to enhance its violence prevention planning included instructive courses with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit on identifying certain behavioral patterns that often predict a violent outburst.
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Yahoo's Executive Shake-up: a Timeline
New CEO Marissa Mayer made key hires, mapped out talent plans before starting a brief maternity leave on Oct 1.
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Happy Holiday: More Executives Are Taking Vacation
Completely unplugging from the office is still a challenge, although about 50 percent of CFOs in a recent survey said they didn't check in while checked out.
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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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Yahoo Taps HR Outsider for Workforce Revamp
Before September, Jacqueline Reses had never formally worked in human resources, let alone managed the people side of a Fortune 500 company.
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Screening the Screeners
In the wake of HireRight Solutions' $2.6 million penalty, background screening services are under greater scrutiny.
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David or Goliath: An HRIS Problem for Small Businesses
How to choose between software giants and smaller vendors when choosing an HR system.
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Steps to Buying an HRIS
Pick priorities, weigh pricing and prepare for training in the selection of core HR software
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Japanese Company Buys Online Jobs Aggregator Indeed.com
The acquisition by Japan's Recruit Co. will fuel the jobs site industry leader's advertising and activity overseas, especially in Asia.
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Privacy Laws Threaten Compliance
California could become the latest state to ban employer access to private social-media sites used by employees. A law passed by the state Legislature last month still must get the approval of Gov. Jerry Brown, who has until the end of the month to sign it.
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Workday Going Public
The human capital management technology darling wants to raise $400 million in a stock offering that's the latest sign of how high profile—and competitive—the market has become.
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The Motherhood Penalty
Why women with kids are having a harder time finding work.
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Transparency is Vital to Helping Employees Cope with Workplace Violence
Midmarket executives and managers often delay or defer training employees to more readily identify and report the warning signs of violent behavior for fear of exacerbating trauma-related anxieties stemming from the original incident, workplace violence experts say.
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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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More Workers Feeling Bullied on the Job: Survey
A total of 35 percent of workers said they have felt bullied at work, compared with the 27 percent who made such a report a year ago.
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Most Employees Say Benefits Enrollment Information Lacking: Survey
Fifty-two percent of workers indicated their employers have not distributed any communication regarding upcoming open enrollment periods. Thirty-nine percent said they were only somewhat prepared for open enrollments, while 26 percent said they were unprepared or very unprepared.
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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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Survey: Health Care Workers' Confidence Drops
A survey found that 43 percent of healthcare workers believe the economy is weakening, up from 27 percent who said the same in the first-quarter survey.
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More Companies Linking Rewards, Penalties to Wellness Program Results
Fifty-eight percent of employers offering wellness incentives pegged rewards to completion of lifestyle modification programs such as weight loss, smoking cessation and physical fitness.
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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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For GM, a Different Kind of Worker
Until now, in recent decades, General Motors has peopled its new factories mostly from banks of laid-off workers and employee transfers from other locations. GM is now forecasting enough manufacturing expansion to require large-scale employee recruitment.
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Creating a New Contingent Culture
Why giving free agents an 'arms-length embrace' is the way forward.
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DayDream Believers
How DreamWorks Animation created a work world that captures the imagination of its employees through perks designed to reduce stress.
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Drawing on Experience
After an orientation, employees spend four to eight weeks training on the company's proprietary software. Then within their first 60 days, they attend a “welcome session,” hosted by CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg.
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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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Four Common Myths About Temporary Workers and Contractors
In July 2010, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settled a race and sex discrimination case against a Cleveland-area temporary agency.
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Why Now for the ‘Free-Agent Nation’?
Using temporary workers at the start of a recovery is nothing new. But other factors behind the contingent expansion are less tied to the business cycle. These include cost-savings.
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Working With Contingents
You can have the best, brightest and most flexible workforce if you consider these suggestions for working with contingents. These tips will help you become a “nonemployer of choice.”
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Moto Mobility's Mart Move Creates a New Tech Hotspot in Chicago
Google's plan to move Motorola Mobility Inc. from the suburbs into the city's largest office building cements the River North neighborhood as the center of a tech scene that has been gathering momentum for a decade.
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Etching Out a Creative Culture
To connect with its employees and improve engagement, DreamWorks introduced initiatives that range from paying for the personalization of workspaces to sending daily updates from the CEO.
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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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Joplin, Missouri, One Year Later: Lessons Learned after a Tornado
The journey from ruin to rebirth involves lessons in taking care of employees, operating a store amid chaos and excelling at customer service despite having no nice building to work in.
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Broken Engagement? New Survey Reveals Employees Still Not Feeling the Love
Companies may measure it, but shared accountability for engagement remains an exception, not the norm, according to a July global workforce study of 32,000 workers by New York-based consultancy Towers Watson.
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Radio Flyer Relishes Rolling Out Engaged Workers
Emphasizing engagement has helped the privately owned company post double-digit revenue growth each year from 2004 through 2011.
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In Search of a Standard Measure of Talent
Under SHRM's draft human capital metrics standard, companies would report on topics including spending on training and development, ability to retain talent, leadership quality and employee engagement.
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IT Onboarding Crucial to Productivity: Survey
Despite their agreement on the importance of onboarding programs, 57 percent of IT leaders say they have a formal, strategic onboarding plan less than 20 percent of the time, while just 18 percent of IT professionals say sufficient attention is given to developing a strong onboarding program.
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New Push for Employee Recognition May Have Broader Implications
Two new surveys point toward executives realizing that the random gift card, or company watch and pin for years of service, do little to motivate behavior.
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Workers' Compensation Rates for Employers Likely to Increase
In general, the 'cream of the crop' among guarantee-cost accounts are experiencing price increases ranging from about 5 percent to 7 percent, with some 10 percent increases, particularly in the Midwest.
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How to Build a Performance Management Program
Begin by defining role-based competencies and behaviors for every employee so they know exactly what is expected of them. These competencies should include the five or six qualities that define success for every member of the organization.
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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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Game Plan: Coaches Drive Performance at Archer Daniels Midland
The company's short-range goal is to use coaching to boost the bottom line through cost savings and more efficient operations. Longer term, it's hoped that coaching will supplant the annual ritual of performance reviews.
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Most Employers Plan to Continue Offering Health Care Coverage
Just over 9 percent cited retention of tax advantages as a reason for keeping coverage and just over 7 percent said a top reason for keeping coverage was to avoid tax penalties.
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Employee Bonuses Driven By Customer Loyalty at General Motors
For 2012, salaried workers in North America will get a year-end bonus if GM hits an internal customer-retention goal. But it is inside GM's 650-person field sales division that the customer-centric pay structure probably reflects the most striking departure from GM's past.
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The Golden Egg of Incentive Pay Policies Is an Elusive Bird
Even with the best-designed programs, companies face challenges in making incentive and merit-pay programs effective in today's economy.
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Compensation Plan Helps Insurance Firm Cash In
The practices can be time-consuming and arduous to implement, but the time taken to focus on talent management has paid off in ConnectiCare's overall success, an executive says.
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The New HR Software Landscape
How recent acquisitions are changing the field of HR software, and the decisions customers need to make about the future.
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Salesforce.com Buys Its Way Into HR Software
SAP, Oracle and other HR software vendors have a surprising new competitor thanks to the acquisition of Rypple by Salesforce.com.
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Battle of the Giants!
Curious about how Oracle and SAP's recent talent management acquisitions shift the vendor landscape? Come hear executives from both HR software titans discuss industry consolidation at the upcoming HR Tech Week virtual conference, June 5 and 6.
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Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Mentor Match
Covance Inc. is among the companies using software to help employees and mentors connect. The program Mentor Scout enables pairings based on mutual professional interests.
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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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Miller School of Medicine at University of Miami Plans to Lay Off 800 Workers
The University of Miami Health System filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification with the state of Florida, disclosing its intention to cut 800 positions on July 31. Layoffs of more than 500 employees must be disclosed at least 60 days in advance.
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Boomer Moms Find Themselves in a New Phase of Life—and Work
For many women, the empty-nest phase of life doesn't just change their home lives. Women talk of how they now work long hours without worry, finally have taken a job requiring lots of travel or have started a business with their newfound energy and evenings available for networking.
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Going Prospect Hunting for Auto Technicians at Local Vocational Schools
Auto Dealer Joel Higley advertised for a service technician 10 years ago. He didn't get one application. The stinging memory of that experience prompted Higley to get involved in a nearby vocational technology school to recruit a homegrown work force.
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Auto Dealer Finds Recruiting Success by Offering Workers 'Bounty' to Bring in Talent
For dealer Frank Allocca, finding service technicians is not a problem.
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What the Future Holds for SuccessFactors and SAP Customers
SAP executives have laid out a future that blends SAP and SuccessFactors' applications in human resources.
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Court: Worker Not Entitled to Free Speech Protections During Employment Duties
An issue in the case was the U.S. Supreme Court's 2006 ruling in Garcetti vs.
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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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Successful Wellness Programs Hinge on Emotional Well-Being
A recent study notes that companies should pursue the development of a workplace culture where employees are supported for their health and well-being.
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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.
