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Yesterday’s Advisor featured Consultant Scott Hamilton’s five steps to get away from legacy thinking and figure out what’s coming next. Today, we list and describe companies that failed to thrive, plus Hamilton’s five organizational trends for 2015. History and market velocity dictate that companies that ignore innovation will fail, Hamilton says. Kodak Kodak stopped being […]
The “inflection” point for HR is here, says Consultant Scott Hamilton. In business today, disruption is closer than you think, from recruiting to development, companies need next practices ideas, processes, concepts, and solutions that move us beyond the “status quo.”
President Woodrow Wilson was once asked how long it took him to prepare his speeches, and his answer was quite telling. “That depends on the length of the speech,” said Wilson. “If it is a 10-minute speech, it takes me all of two weeks to prepare it; if it is a half-hour speech, it takes […]
Supply Chain Management doesn’t seem like an HR issue, but the experts Lucia Erwin and Jack Tootson say it has a lot to teach human resources.
Most organizations have a performance management program, and most companies admit that their program doesn’t work as well as it should. It’s easy to blame the system, but most of the problem is with the appraisers themselves.
Most of us will work our entire lives without ever being present at—let alone participating in—a Board of Directors’ meeting. However, Robin A. Ferracone, chief executive officer and founder of Farient Advisors, has been in more compensation committee meetings than she can count over the course of her career.
by Tony Puckett The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced proposed regulations updating its current sex discrimination regulations for federal government contractors and subcontractors. The proposed regulations are the first substantive update to the “Sex Discrimination Guidelines,” which the OFCCP adopted in 1970. The OFCCP’s press release […]
Yesterday, we got some good insights on pay-for-performance from Dan Walter, CEP of Performensation. Today, his surprising take on complexity within your pay-for-performance system.
In yesterday’s Advisor, we featured Consultant Hunter Lott’s 2015 “Please Sue Me” presentation; today, his suggestions for handling eight tricky policy provisions.
In yesterday’s Advisor, BLR® Legal Editor Jasmin Rojas, JD, presented the Department of Labor’s (DOL) test for classifying interns—and how the 2nd Circuit court disagreed with the test after a suit was brought by a couple of interns who worked on the movie Black Swan and/or at the Fox corporate offices. Today, Rojas elaborates on […]