Five Tips for Festive Productivity

‘Tis the season to be sidetracked. Whether it’s decking the halls or planning for parties, the holiday season brings with it a host of...

Continue reading →

Ask, Don’t Tell: Suggestion Systems Improve Productivity

By David Creelman Organizations are always trying out programs to get more productivity out of employees. These programs, whether they be Six Sigma or Customer...

Continue reading →

Recruiting Future Leaders Today

By Neil McEachern, CHRP Candidate The shift from the industrial era to the intellectual era has put a new emphasis on HR's ability to attract...

Continue reading →

Career Management as an Employee Engagement Strategy

Roberta Neault and Deirdre Pickerell, CHRP Today’s employees will change jobs (and, quite likely, career direction) numerous times throughout a lifetime of work. On the...

Continue reading →

Making the Case for HR

By Joel Shapiro, Ph.D The field of HR metrics is booming: there is now a glut of ideas, experiments, approaches, paradigms...and solid research. Several...

Continue reading →

Learning & Development Invest in Entry-Level Employees and Increase Profitability

A study by the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy indicates a cause-and-effect relationship between the welfare of lower-level workers and a company's...

Continue reading →

Holding the Olympic Spirit: Looking Forward 2010

By Ian J. Cook, CHRP By the time you read these words, we will have begun a year unlike any other.  At the other end...

Continue reading →

Engagement Makes Good Business Sense

By Heather Hughes The cost of even one disengaged or unhappy employee can drain valuable resources faster than a bottle of wine at a dinner...

Continue reading →