Want to take off work one afternoon and go fishing or to the movies? Don’t feel like getting up at 6a to make the commute to the office?
ROWE or Results-Only Work Environment is a performance-based, results-focused culture whereby the organization focuses on productivity, retention and the bottom line by allowing employees to work when and where […]

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 […]

I don’t think there is anyone out there who would disagree with me when I state that team work is important to a high-functioning organization.
That’s why I want to field a question about developing teams from one of my readers who asks, “What would you recommend to a first-time supervisor who needs to develop his […]

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 […]

It’s Friday the thirteenth. Do you know where your black cat is?
According to Wikipedia ”a superstition is the irrational belief that future events are influenced by specific behaviors, without having a causal relationship.”
When I read the Wikipedia definition, it immediately conjured up thoughts of performance management and the irrational belief some managers have about how […]

As the newest generation of young people enters the workforce, there appears to be some concerns about the baggage they bring with them.
According to a recent survey in Workforce Magazine of 225 participants surveyed, 70% felt college graduates are more self-centered  and narcissistic than past generations of young people joining the workforce fresh out of […]

Trying to convince your management team that a new human resources program really will do what it is intended to do?
I recently read about a scientific approach suggesting the use of split samples
 – splitting your target population into two groups and training only one group. Then after an established period of time passes, you measure […]

A recent article in The Onion cleverly told the story of a six-year-old who was being groomed by his teacher to take over the role of “line leader”.
I chuckled — our future in the making – and I wondered if this young man knew and understood his teacher’s intent. Did he want to be a leader […]

Previously I wrote about the good and the bad sides of outsourcing. The ugly side of offshoring focuses on ideas that are generally neither good nor bad, but are more concepts that organizations should understand when considering offshoring.

Probably the biggest ugly side to offshoring is the current cultural differences between the U.S. and the […]

Now that we’ve discussed some of the upside to offshoring, let’s talk about the downside.
Most notably is the financial loss to families from jobs being outsourced to other countries. Initially it appeared that the jobs being outsourced to places like the Philippines, China and India were primarily manufacturing, information technology, and call center management.
However, there […]