Spring is traditionally ‘moving’ time—for the housing market and for employees. Year-end bonuses are paid, this year’s goals are perceived as ‘doable’ or ‘not likely’ and the last ‘career conversation’ they had with their boss either motivated them or left them thinking ‘Really’? You may significantly increase the likelihood that your employees won’t be tempted [...]
Water Cooler
Current hot topics.
Wharton management professor Matthew Bidwell’s recent article in Time magazine created some interesting conversation around our water cooler this week and we thought it might create some buzz around yours. In his paper entitled, “Paying More to Get Less: The Effects of External Hiring versus Internal Mobility,” Professor Bidwell explores outcomes of ‘internal’ and ‘external’ [...]
Now there’s something to ponder. Kevin Wheeler[1], the President and Founder of Global Learning Resources, Inc. thinks so. In his recent article, posted on ere.net on September 27, 2011, Mr. Wheeler feels that recruiting interviews are more about the ‘power and control’ on the part of the interviewer: “Sometimes an interviewer has the power to [...]
We speak a lot around here about shared characteristics—behaviors—of top performers within individual cultures. A recently-released Seattle study takes a look at shared qualities among top performing companies in their quest to reach the pinnacle of their industries.
In its 2011 High-Performance Organizations Survey, Seattle’s Institute for Corporate Productivity ( i4cp), partnered with Human Resource Executive® to survey 914 business leaders from organizations representing companies of varied industries and sizes.
Among the key findings in Deloitte’s ‘Talent Edge 2020: Blueprints for the New Normal’ published in December, is the observation that ‘developing leaders and succession planning’ is currently a top concern—and will remain a top talent priority three years from now—at least for the 334 corporate executives who participated in the survey. This, added to [...]
