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Show Me the Money: The Bottom Line Impact of Employee Engagement

by Reese Haydon on Jun 11, 2013, 10:25 AM | 4 Comments

Employee engagement seems to be the buzzword constantly reverberating throughout the global HR arena. But is it legitimate?

I mean, really, does it matter if employees are engaged? Are organizations with engaged employees any better off?

And I’m not talking about employees being better off emotionally (no one cares about that). I mean does the company have a stronger financial performance and operational efficiency with engaged employees? If not, then employee engagement is just another time-wasting hoax for executives to deal with until the HR department comes up with a bigger-and-better distraction to throw their way. Read more…

HR Insights, HR Management

3 Key Predictions For the Human Resources Department of 2020

by Erin Osterhaus on May 7, 2013, 8:10 AM | 15 Comments

First of two parts

The human resources department is doomed.

There is no viable future for the HR function, and HR professionals will inevitably be replaced by software. At least that’s what some are saying.

They’re wrong.

Without a doubt, software is changing how HR functions. But rather than spell the end of human resources, the nine experts I interviewed predict these changes will provide growth opportunities for HR professionals. Read more…

Talent Management

5 Great Things You Can Learn by Working For Bad Bosses

by Jacque Vilet on Jun 11, 2013, 7:07 AM | 1 comment

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher

Most articles about bad bosses say that the best thing you can learn from them is how not to manage employees. Can’t disagree with that!

But aside from that, there are some other things you can learn from a bad boss that you can’t learn from a good boss.

Tim Sackett wrote a post about some of them here at TLNT. Here’s what he says: Read more…

HR News & Trends, Recruiting and Staffing

Temp Worker Hiring is Growing 5X Faster Than the Overall Economy

by John Zappe on Jun 12, 2013, 8:08 AM | No comments yet

With the addition of 25,600 temp workers to the nation’s payroll in May, there are now more workers employed as temps than at any time since before the start of the 21st century.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that on a seasonally adjusted basis some 2,679,800 people were employed as temporary workers in the U.S. last month. In the last year, the temp sector has averaged 15,500 new hires a month. Since the recession ended in June 2009, the average is just over 16,000 a month.

On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, temp workers numbered 2,659,300 in May, not far off from the record 2,767,300 temps working in October 2006. Read more…

Culture, Talent Management

The Keys to Becoming a Manager That Employees Never Want to Leave

by Derek Irvine on May 8, 2013, 8:10 AM | No comments yet

We’ve all heard the truism that people quit managers not jobs.

If retention of top performers and key talent is a priority for you, then one of the first places you should look for improvement is in the relationship between managers and employees.

This recent article, for example, points to a recent survey showing 20 percent of people say their bosses hurt their career. Half of employees, on the other hand, said the boss had a positive impact. Read more…

Talent Management

5 Surefire Ways to Successfully Disengage Your Workforce

by Reese Haydon on Jun 18, 2013, 7:00 AM | 2 Comments

We read a lot about how to engage employees.

However, the reality is that engagement is a choice. The best we can do is create an environment in which employees can choose to be engaged.

So, does the opposite hold true? Can our actions cause disengagement to occur? Our employee survey research shows a clear and resounding “YES!” Read more…

HR Insights, Rewards & Recognition

Here’s What CEOs REALLY Want to Get Out of Their HR Leaders

by Michelle M. Smith on May 8, 2013, 7:00 AM | 3 Comments

Your CEO doesn’t want you to be a human resources leader — they want you to be a business leader with human resources expertise.

While that may just seem like a clever turn of phrase, there’s a growing body of research that supports this concept and HR leaders would be well-served to heed the advice.

Consulting firm Schuster-Zingheim provides research and guidance for HR through direct interviews with CEOs, COOs, and CFOs on how the C-Suite expect HR professionals to align employees with their organization’s future. Read more…

HR Insights

Great Things Result When You Refuse to Accept Excuses

by Mel Kleiman on Jun 17, 2013, 9:12 AM | No comments yet

Excuses can seem like perfectly plausible reasons for not doing something you said you’d do, but over time, if no one calls you on them, they can be habit-forming.

And accepting excuses from employees is a surefire way to encourage repetition of the behavior as well as to demoralize staffers who do meet their commitments.

Do you think it matters to a customer that you have “a good excuse” for the rude behavior of the customer service rep? Does it make it okay with your client that you have “a good excuse” for missing the delivery date? Read more…

Talent Management

Are Your Talent Management Programs Simply Popularity Contests?

by Carol Anderson on Jun 17, 2013, 7:00 AM | No comments yet

Leafing through a recent HR Magazine, I noticed (well, couldn’t miss) a full page advertisement for employee recognition programs.

Nothing unusual about that, right? It is a compelling ad, in that there is 25 percent of a face – an amalgamation of the Terminator and Men in Black – next to the words “employee recognition helps your team feel like Hollywood Heavyweights … whether to get a 24-hour personal bodyguard will be up to them.”

The premise is that these are your star performers that you are recognizing. Quite an innovative ad. Perhaps an outstanding program; I don’t know. Read more…

HR News & Trends

SHRM Chicago 1: Here’s What I Didn’t Get to Hear From Hillary Clinton

by John Hollon on Jun 16, 2013, 5:12 PM | 4 Comments

As someone who has been to a number of SHRM national conferences, take it from me that the opening general session of the Society for Human Resource Management’s 65th annual Conference & Exhibition here in Chicago on Sunday was probably the oddest of them all.

And how odd was it, you might ask? Let me count the ways.

The media was banned from the opening session for the first time in my 10 years attending these SHRM events. I’m told it was a demand of Hillary Clinton, and that she does this all the time when speaking to groups like SHRM. It makes me wonder: does banning the media work when you’re talking to, oh, a small, intimate crowd in the neighborhood of 12,000 people? As one person tweeted, “Everyone in this room has a camera phone and Facebook. You can’t stop the free and unfiltered press at #shrm13.” Read more…

Most Popular Articles

Show Me the Money: The Bottom Line Impact of Employee Engagement

3 Key Predictions For the Human Resources Department of 2020

5 Great Things You Can Learn by Working For Bad Bosses

Temp Worker Hiring is Growing 5X Faster Than the Overall Economy

The Keys to Becoming a Manager That Employees Never Want to Leave

5 Surefire Ways to Successfully Disengage Your Workforce

Here’s What CEOs REALLY Want to Get Out of Their HR Leaders

Great Things Result When You Refuse to Accept Excuses

Are Your Talent Management Programs Simply Popularity Contests?

SHRM Chicago 1: Here’s What I Didn’t Get to Hear From Hillary Clinton

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