February 27, 2012
Numbers usually have the final say on all claims and forecasts – either by proving them or by discrediting them totally. In defiance of the gloom and doom predictions made by various economists, unemployment in the USA showed a clear dip for the fifth month in a row, and sent the stock market indexes soaringRead full story…
February 24, 2012
It was Ronald Reagan who said – recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. What if you had a job, but your job did not pay you enough, it was unsuitable to your skills or allowed you to work for short periods only, forcing times of inactivity onRead full story…
February 14, 2012
It will be really interesting to have Corporate America debate the statement made by the German Industrialist, Robert Bosch: ‘I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.’ After a decade of stagnation in minimum wages, with perennial and inconclusive debatesRead full story…
February 7, 2012
In our previous post (Establishing Effective Onboarding Process), we have harped a great deal on the human element in onboarding and suggested many ways to improve the employee experience to ensure that the new hire develops commitment, loyalty and other bonds with the organization. For obvious reasons, these considerations have more relevance to full-time hiresRead full story…
February 1, 2012
If you can throw your mind back to that first day on your first job, which could not have been that far back you would show empathetic understanding for the human side of the onboarding process. Simultaneously with the documentation and other practical issues in employee onboarding, we need to focus on creating a positiveRead full story…