Human Resource Management Articles
January 25 2012 - There are strong, well-rehearsed arguments both for and against the use of
personality testing, but we have identified a particular, and thus far potentially overlooked, risk of discrimination against disabled participants.
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January 23 2012 - Richard van der Lee asks if the way organizations deal with some HRD methodologies can lead to the right moves.
January 19 2012 - Seasonally adjusted, unemployment remained at 5.2% and the number of people in employment
fell by 29,300 to 11,421,300.
January 18 2012 - The unemployment rate stands at 8.4% - up 0.3% over the quarter and 0.5% over the year.
January 11 2012 - Some Do's and Don'ts for job hunting
January 6 2012 - The unemployment rate fell from 8.6 to 8.5 percent in
December, and nonfarm payroll employment rose by 200,000.
January 6 2012 - Statistics Canada reported that the unemployment rate edged up to 7.5% in
December as more people joined the jobs market.
December 19 2011 - One of the most exciting new trends in recent years has been the emergence of the human cloud, as more and more businesses go
online to hire and manage talented staff on an hourly or project basis.
December 13 2011 - Graduate unemployment is at a record level but many organizations say they cannot
find the right talent.
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December 13 2011 - Recruiting practices need to be consistent with branding strategies or organizations risk missing out on top talent and potential
revenue. More recuiting organizations are likely to turn to social media in 2012.
December 10 2011 - Excerpt from Now You’re Thinking: Change Your Thinking, Revolutionize Your Career, Transform Your Life (FT Press),
December 8 2011 - 1.7 million Australians over 18 are prevented from working as much as they
want for a variety of reasons, according to a new Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) study.
December 7 2011 - Using the Internet for job-hunting reduced time spent unemployed by an
average of 25%.
December 6 2011 - Employees who have flexibility in the workplace tend to sustain healthier lifestyle habits.
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December 6 2011 - Richard van der Lee wonders if organizations lose track of (potential)
customers or have ‘too much internal focus’?
December 1 2011 - Smartphones, tablets and other types of 24-7 technology
can make life easier for many people but they make it harder to switch off even when at home and
also keep us at work longer.
November 25 2011 - Changes to come for UK employment law.
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November 5 2011 - In these uncertain times no word is used more often than 'trust'. This creates some beautiful discussions but all the more misunderstandings.
October 31 2011 - A tribunal of judges appointed by Fair Work Australia has determined that the industrial dispute
called by three unions that triggered the airline's lockout must end.
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October 21 2011 - When organizations actively want to participate in the changing environment a question arises: why is available talent not being fully utilized. Of course employees who are classified as a "young and high potential" are important to these organizations but beyond these individuals a complete scenario is obscured: the individual talents of every single employee.
October 5 2011 - Stress has been identified as the most significant cause of long-term absence according to this year's
CIPD/Simplyhealth Absence Management survey.
October 5 2011 - The announcement that
the qualification period for the right to claim unfair dismissal will be extended from one year to two years has attracted mixed responses.
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September 23 2011 - Do Business and HR Managers speak the same language?
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September 7 2011 - Every business needs effective HR (human resources) to retain a happy, motivated and productive workforce.
July 18 2011 - Research findings reported in the Journal of Management shows that we consider some
leaders to be charismatic because we attribute 'magical thinking' to them.
July 18 2011 - A new Canadian study published in the Journal of Managerial Psychology shows the value of
structured approaches to orientation (induction) training and mentoring.
July 13 2011 - Australian workers have a low-pressure, stress-free working life, and are not worried about losing their jobs,
according to findings from ORC International’s perspectives database.
July 12 2011 - Employees still do not trust company management, nearly three years after the
beginning of the economic downturn, according to results from a Maritz© Poll conducted by Maritz Research.
July 11 2011 - An analysis of over 39,000 jobs listed on Trade Me Jobs between April and June
shows that the New Zealand job market is strong, with listings up by 27 per cent on the same period in 2010.
July 11 2011 - People with skills, qualifications and experience can pick and choose the country in which to live and work
and this is leading to an international battle for skills with New Zealand losing out.
May 16 2011 - A TUC analysis of the 206 local authority areas by claimant to vacancies ratio from March 2005 to March 2011 shows
that West Dunbartonshire and East Ayrshire have passed the inner London boroughs to become the UK's worst employment
blackspots.
May 16 2011 - Knowledge transfer may not be happening as often as organizations would like because
staff don't always want to share.
April 23 2011 - Employers are concerned that they are vulnerable to frivolous or unjustified employment tribunal claims
according to a Conflict Management survey published prior to a recent CIPD conference.
April 22 2011 - A half of the participants in an online survey conducted for Globoforce think that employee performance reviews do not provide
accurate appraisals of their work.
April 22 2011 - Qantas has been threatened with 'a strong industrial campaign' if it does not take workers' demands seriously.
April 20 2011 - New research shows that jobless Americans face discrimination unrelated to their skills or
to ways in which they lost their previous jobs.
March 16 2011 - Badly paid, poorly supported, or short term jobs
can be as harmful as being without a job.
March 16 2011 - The notion of a 'lost generation' of young jobless people is simplistic, according to the latest Work Audit report on official labour market statistics "Getting the measure of youth unemployment"
from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
March 12 2011 - A recently published study indicates that honesty pays off for job applicants.
January 19 2011 - Successive Governments have seen public sector HR as either a cost to be managed or a means of dealing
with redundancies, but not as a crucial strategic function, according to a recent CIPD report.
November 30 2010 - Employees who spend most of their working week as telecommuters have greater job satisfaction than
people who are primarily office workers
November 19 2010 - Most organizations do not measure the effectiveness of their short-term incentive plans.
October 19 2010 - While Britain has made good progress in addressing inequalities and tolerating diversity, significant barriers to a fairer society
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October 12 2010 - Most European businesses are finding it difficult to attract and motivate the skilled individuals
needed to recover from the economic crisis, according to research from global professional services company Towers Watson.
October 12 2010 - Unjustified increases
for a few CEOs can lead to "legitimate" salary increases for others.
October 6 2010 - CEOs with top college degrees do no better at improving their organization's long-term performance than
average and are as liable to be blamed for poor results.
October 6 2010 - Employees who get on badly with their supervisors are more likely to be envious of those with more positive relationships.
October 5 2010 - Women make up 25 per cent of board members in broadcasting companies surveyed, more than double the national average of 12 per cent for FTSE 100 companies.
October 5 2010 - Employees with flexible schedules tend to experience greater blurring of boundaries between work and
other parts of their lives, especially family-related roles.
October 2 2010 - The 13th Annual HR Technology® Conference and Expo that took place in Chicago from September 29 to October 1 2010 saw a
number of new and award-winning products on show.
International -
October 2 2010 - Latin America is a significant emerging outsourcing destination for U.S. companies.
September 15 2010 - A recent study assesses the state of gender segregation in U.S. employment since the early 1970s.
September 15 2010 - Mental illness is associated with more lost working days than any other chronic condition
and costs the Canadian economy C$51 billion annually in lost productivity.
September 14 2010 - Top five tips on managing a successful career change.
September 14 2010 - The new
agreement is designed to last for two years, providing guaranteed pay rises of 8 per cent in addition to the 2 per cent awarded in October 2009.
September 14 2010 - Organizations are planning to increase hiring as the economy recovers but are making significant changes
to their recruitment strategies according to research from Job Search Television Network (JSTN).
International -
September 14 2010 - The majority of organizations are experiencing difficulty attracting employees with
critical skills as economic conditions improve.
September 8 2010 - 15 per cent of UK organizations have no measures in place to assess the impact
of coaching or mentoring programmes and 68 per cent do not use this approach to address corporate objectives.
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