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Employee relations
February 15 2002 - Long before Sept. 11, technology was creating a
workplace where phone calls, voice mail and e-mail messages were regularly monitored by
employers.
January 12 2002 - TAMFA says more than
200 more jobs are threatened by Northwest Airlines plan to transfer skilled maintenance work elsewhere, including to low-cost, privately operated
foreign repair stations.
January 4 2002 - The Federal District court in Washington, D.C. has upheld arguments made by the UAW that an
Executive Order issued by President Bush last year is invalid.
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Leadership
February 26 2002 - A survey of 150 top executives at Fortune 1000 companies asked them to choose who would make
the best CEO from the following: George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Donald
Rumsfeld, Al Gore, Tony Blair or Rudy Giuliani.
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Learning
January 7 2002 - Study shows a volatile market with phenomenal growth but
increased pressure from clients looking for greater ROI on their training and learning investments
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General HR
December 19 2002 - How to turn your company party into a career disaster
November 27 2002 - Worrying is bad for us. Not necessarily so, according
to a new study which shows that worrying may shield people from the effects of anxiety - at least in the short term.
November 26 2002 - A quarter of employees in a recent survey said
they felt addicted to the Internet, but only 8% of companies seemed to be aware of
the phenomenon of workplace 'cyber-addiction'.
Performance
October 16 2002 - Nearly 4 in 5 of businesses who use
performance assessment say that regular employee performance reviews benefit overall
business performance, and almost as many feel that they improve employee productivity
Recruitment
September 25 2002 - Starting Monday 30 September 2002
the New York Times Job Market will provide free "Networking Nights" for job-seekers in
conjunction with Starbucks Coffee and WPLJ Radio.
September 24 2002 - A culture fit tool has the potential to
make job seekers more savvy while also providing a smaller, "better fitting" applicant
pool for organizations.
September 15 2002 - The economy may be slowing but most
HR executives find attracting and retaining talent to be a
big problem, according to a new study from The Conference Board.
August 8 2002 - TMP Worldwide shares fell by 30 per cent yesterday after
James J. Treacy, TMP's President and Chief Operating Officer (COO),
announced his resignation. TMP owns Monster - the world's largest job search website.
August 8 2002 - After working a combined 20 years as an employment agency owner and professional
recruiter, Jim Nagel recognizes some inherent deficiencies surrounding the employment agency
business. Unearthing new talent is an ongoing challenge for the human resource
professional.
May 31 2002 - A survey by the The New York Times Job Market research team indicates that
89% of job seekers and 49% of hiring managers in the New York metropolitan
area believe that a significant number of candidates pad their resumes.
Rewards
October 18 2002 - A majority of workers believe they
can get better pay elsewhere.
August 16 2002 - Most New York metropolitan area employers (88%) say that
healthcare insurance is the most expensive benefit they offer to
employees, according to new research issued by The New York Times Job Market.
July 19 2002 - Paid time off is still the most common benefit
for employees in private organizations.
May 28 2002 - The events of Sept. 11 profoundly affected business travel but did not produce many permanent
changes in employers' travel policies, according to a BNA, Inc survey.
April 8 2002 - Planning retirement and servicing 401(k)
plans remain key HR issues in the US.
February 26 2002 - Company annual incentive or bonus plans are increasingly converging on a few features, based on
supposed "best practices.
Job market
July 25 2002 - Aging workforces,
inadequate compensation, and lack of planning will leave
almost every state government with critically low pools of
employees to provide essential public services.
February 21 2002 - United Airlines announced that
it will be recalling 1200 of the 2700 flight atttendants furloughed last fall.
January 12 2001 - Ford Motor Company announces several restructuring actions as part of its Ford Revitalization Plan.
5 plants are to be closed: Edison Assembly, Ontario Truck Plant, St. Louis Assembly,
Cleveland Aluminum Casting and Vulcan Forge.
January 7 2002 - Washington's Unemployment Claims TeleCenters will open for longer over the winter
to keep up with a flood of laid-off workers applying for unemployment benefits (Updated December 2002).
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Health and Safety
July 25 2002 - Working-class people are more likely to get the message
if workplace smoking cessation programs are combined with other occupational health and
safety messages rather than being used on a stand-alone basis.
First Among Equals
by Patrick J. McKenna and David H. Maister
Managing people over whom you have no real power is a challenge, particularly in professional service firms where, increasingly, top professionals
are being tapped to lead their peers. In this guide, two renowned consultants show professional
group managers lacking formal authority how to lead colleagues to peak performance
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When Generations Collide
by Lynne C. Lancaster and David Stillman
If your workplace sometimes feels like a battlefield and your colleagues sometimes seem like aliens, you are not
alone. Today there are four distinct generations of employees glaring at one another from
across the conference table, and the potential for conflict and confusion has never been
greater.In this insightful, captivating book, generational experts Lynne C. Lancaster and
David Stillman shed much-needed light on how to bridge generational gaps at work by
understanding the differences that drive generations apart - Traditionalist, Baby Boomers,
Generation Xers and Millennials.
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More General HR
April 10 2002 - Businesses could
lose top performers without comprehensive talent management strategies. But they also need
'passionate employees.'
March 1 2002 - Treatment of employees and the quality of
products and services rate highest in job-searchers' perceptions of organizations they want
to work for.
February 26 2002 - A recent survey shows that two-thirds (66%) of executives polled scheduled
formal employee appraisals annually with just 29% conducting them more frequently.
February 8 2002 - Most HR professionals and corporate executives say that personally
they would avoid workplace romance - but few organizations have a policy on the issue.
January 20 2002 - Human Resource departments are often targeted by senior managers wanting to cut budget costs. So it makes sense for HR managers to know how to optimize their practices within tight financial constraints.
January 8 2002 - A new survey of human resource executives in the New York tri-state area by TMP (owners of monster.com)
showing that many businesses are still actively hiring.
Diversity
October 23 2002 - It will take well over half a century to achieve gender
balance across all state agencies if progress continues at the present rate.
June 21 2002 - The low participation rate of persons of color in science and engineering employment, and the
shortage of people in those professions needs a concerted and collaborative effort by corporate,
governmental and educational communities.
May 28 2002 - A federal jury in California found that Riverside County
violated the constitutional rights of a nurse fired from her job after refusing
to dispense the morning-after pill.
Strategy
June 20 2002 - Contrary to some beliefs, a
survey of 5,000 mid-to-upper level managers shows that most are very open to change.
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