Tag: e-pinion

Just My E-pinionBy Steven M. Horner, SPHR Today’s guest columnist suggests that we’d have better business leaders if we made them get licenses to keep their jobs. Did you ever think about all of the service providers you come in contact with … barbers, accountants, lawyers, electricians, insurance agents, and so on? All of these […]

By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady Two computer programmers sharing a single keyboard? Hey, it works, says our CEO as he reports on a novel form of job sharing. Computer programmers have the reputation of being loners who sit in their cubicles, hunched over their keyboards, headphones on their ears, silent and oblivious to […]

By HR Daily Advisor Managing Editor Jay Schleifer Just My E-pinion We’ve got two invitations for you this week: One will get you a free report of what your competitors plan to pay workers in 2008. The other can, well, make you famous. They say opportunity knocks only once. But this week, it knocks twice. […]

By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady Our first National Employee Attitude Survey report showed your workers were getting only about three-fourths of what they want from you.  Well, we’re running it again, starting on February 8, 2008. It’s still free, but you may find the results priceless.  Here’s the article I wrote about last […]

Just My E-pinion By Cathy Bolger Recently, former Vice President Al Gore found himself in the unlikely role of Hollywood celebrity, accepting an Oscar as producer of a documentary on global warming, titled An Inconvenient Truth. HR Management Trainer Cathy Bolger thinks she knows how Gore was able to gain so much acceptance … by […]

By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady BLR’s founder joins “Michael Scott,” fictional manager of TV’s The Office, in discussing how “gruntled,”, a.k.a. satisfied, workers are, and what makes them so. Are workers at your firm “gruntled” or “dis”gruntled? That is to say, are they happy, satisfied, and motivated, or ready to bolt for the […]

By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady Speakers at a workplace wellness program conference say, to make a program pay, start at the top, and take it to the people. Do workplace wellness programs really pay their way in terms of profit and loss? And, if so, how can we convince corporate management that they […]

By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady Outsourcing need not be the menace to HR it’s often made out to be. Here are some facts and fictions about it. Few topics have generated as much heat in recent years as HR outsourcing. A lot of it comes from the fact that “experts” have counseled employers […]

By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady The horrific violence at Virginia Tech again raises security issues for all workplaces. BLR’s founder offers some tools to hopefully stop trouble before it strikes. We join the nation in grief over the violence and mayhem at Virginia Tech this week. As the parent of a recent college […]

By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady BLR’s CEO suggests that if you want to get ahead in HR, avoid gambles, but take risks! As the CEO and owner of a small business, I get to observe the willingness of people to take risks. Some are natural risk-takers. Some will bet only on a sure […]