Ninety eight percent of HR professionals say they're called upon to help resolve issues according to a survey by Denver-based Employee Development Systems. Worse still, 81 percent say conflict leads to turnover and 77 percent believe it causes absenteeism. So...
Companies' unwillingness to let employees grow into a job only amplifies their difficulty in finding the right talent, Peter Cappelli writes in The Wall Street Journal. Cappelli is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's...
HR professionals know that broken promises can erode morale and engagement. But now, there’s quantifiable proof that severe cost cutting can diminish employees' trust in company leaders and negatively impact the bottom line. Employees who don’t trust their executives are seven...
In its 10 trends and challenges for 2012, Gartner included the need to create an IT staff than can withstand the coming wave of retirements and deal with a less-loyal younger generation that might not...
It seems like workplace violence is an ever-present threat despite HR's sometimes heroic planning and educational efforts. So that begs the question: What’s the key to recognizing and defusing violent incidents before they occur? In a...
When Ortho-McNeil told a woman to, essentially, stop mourning her daughter during working hours, it won its legal case, but may have lost in a wider sense. Cecilia Ingraham worked for Ortho in New Jersey when...
We all know that unhappy employees are the ones most likely to abandon ship, so it's alarming to see how many IT positions made a recent list of most hated jobs. IT directors were the most...
We've all had that pit-of-the-stomach reaction to hearing that a top performer has defected to the competition. But how do you avoid it? Short of chaining them to their desks -- which might raise legal...
Fast-paced, entrepreneurial operations (like the one I'm part of) face many challenges, but – as you may have read – growth isn’t one of them. Retention can be. The tech and media sectors are growing...
