I do not like this person. I must get to know him better.
–Abraham Lincoln
The topic of respect recently came up when a group of my friends got into a discussion about their current organizations and how they felt about the way employees are treated.
What the discussion came down to was that they all felt that […]

We’ve known for years that a tired worker is a non-productive worker. Well, now Harvard and the University of Florida both agree.
The Harvard study showed that the ability of employees to be productive was improved with a good night’s sleep and found that a midday nap reverses information overload while the U of F study reported a […]

I hadn’t given much thought to the federal minimum wage lately until I read a bit of the Economic Analysis of the Arizona Minimum Wage Proposal put out by the Political Economic Research Institute (PERI) which indicated that if someone worked for 52 weeks at the federal minimum of $5.15 per hour, their annual income would […]

Okay, no matter what changes have occurred in the work environment over the past twenty years, the glass ceiling, though slightly cracked, does still exist.
While a January 2007 survey conducted by MSNBC.com and Elle magazine seemed to indicate that gender distinctions in leadership are becoming blurred (51 percent of those surveyed didn’t feel gender made a difference […]

An interesting article I recently saw on the Internet about employee engagement indicated that “300 is NOT a training film.”
If you haven’t seen the movie, it’s about 300 Spartans who follow their leader into a desperate situation. Why? According to the article it’s because they were trained from childhood to behave that way.
However, employees today haven’t […]

Our people are our most valuable asset.
How often have you heard these words uttered by some executive or seen them incorporated into a company’s mission and values statement?
Simply stated: “A company’s human capital asset is the collective sum of the attributes, life experience, knowledge, inventiveness, energy, and enthusiasm that its people choose to invest in their […]

Work/life balance is probably the dream of most employees. However, as more and more organizations focus on doing more work with fewer staff, the ability to incorporate sufficient personal time into an already demanding schedule has become difficult.

But how important is work/life balance?
According to a survey by the Families and Work Institute conducted ten years […]

I’m so confused!
One week I read an article in the Los Angeles Times which tells me that telecommuters are on the bottom rung of the ladder when it comes to promotions.
Then I turn around and read another article by the Rand Corporation which says that telecommuting (as well as temporary and contract employment) is the […]

All kidding aside, I was wondering what this new generation (who were hatched, depending on who you speak to, somewhere at the end of the 1990s) will have to look forward to when they reach work age somewhere near 2020.
Well, according to all I’ve recently read, expectations are that by the year 2020 a lot […]

No, that’s not employee relations, although, I guess it could be since increasing productivity might be seen as an employee relations success.
What ER really stands for is Early Riser. And it comes from a notion put out by John Challenger of outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas who thinks companies should try an ER Shift […]