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Five Reasons Performance Reviews Suck
- You’re never really sure how they’ll turn out.
- The time between reviews is ...
Social Media Policies: Promoting vs. Regulating Use
SOPA & PIPA: Coordinated Advocacy
What Makes P&G Great
The Challenges and Rewards of Recruiting Gen Y
The first thing you should know about recruiting Generation Y? According to pioneering generational researchers William Strauss and Neil Howe, workers born between 1982-2000 actually prefer to be called Millennials.
That nuance illustrates the essential element to recruiting and attracting the best Millennial talent -- effective communications that speak to and understand their language and values.
Millennials and Social Media Use
While it’s no secret that communication is increasingly facilitated by social tools and technologies, social networking is particularly relevant for Millennials.
According to the Pew Internet Foundation’s 2010 Future of the Internet...
Creating Our Own HR Standards
HR Advocacy: Help Shape the Workplace
- Activism
Why Do Companies Go Green?
What’s more important? Looking good or doing good?
An increasing number of businesses are responding: Why not do both?
Recent articles, including a McKinsey & Co. global survey report and a column in The Economist, have laid out the advantages that many organizations seek, and some organizations find, when they commit to environmentally friendly and sustainable practices. There are a variety of approaches to sustainability, and some of them depend upon the industry in which the company competes. For example, companies in the energy, transportation and extractive (or mining) industries have a greater incentive to be environmentally...
Washington Wrap: SHRM's 'Top 8' List for 2011
Between now and New Year’s Eve, just about everyone — from late-night comedy show hosts and newspaper editorial boards, to individual families — will be compiling their Top 10 lists for 2011. SHRM’s Government Affairs Team has taken a slightly different approach and compiled its Top 8 list of HR public policy accomplishments for this past year.