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Many labor experts see the surge in temp jobs and contract work in the United States as a sign of a long-term shift in the employment market away from permanent jobs, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Your onboarding process might be the root of your employee turnover problem.

By Eric B. Meyer
Alcoholism is generally a disability.
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the term “disability” is broadly defined.
What matters is that the impairment substantially limits a major life activity.

There may be little hope for reconciliation between Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow because she belongs with Brad Pitt, but conscious uncouplings between companies and employees don’t have to last forever.

As politicians and economists puzzle over America's jobless recovery, managers who have started to hire again face another problem: how to handle all the overqualified candidates coming through the...

By John E. Thompson
We have already reported that a group calling itself the “Fair Pay Campaign” aims to pressure colleges and universities not to facilitate unpaid internships or even post notices about them.

If there’s one thing hiring managers and HR professionals need to know about today’s candidates, it’s that they take to rejection the same way Taylor Swift does: They don’t go down quietly.

To build organizations that are adaptable at their core, we will need to rework every management process so it enables, rather than frustrates, breakthrough thinking and relentless experimentation.

In a world where “Big Data” covers almost every area of the business, there is one important area where no data is systematically collected — and that is data identifying the factors that motivate and excite individual employees.

Last week, I discussed one of the trends (re-skilling HR teams) called out in Deloitte’s annual Global Human Capital Trends report for 2014.

There’s a virtual cornucopia of so-called “culture decks ” finding its way across the web today. These glitzy slide shows present the values that supposedly drive each respective company’s workforce.

A human resources lecturer has said the data breach at Morrisons could lead to staff having an adverse credit rating and even being refused mortgages.

Exorbitant payouts to executives for leaving violates the idea of pay-for-performance.

I start job interviews with the same question every time: “Tell me about your path leading up to today. Why is this role the right fit for you now?

I used to work for a woman named Linda, who reported to a woman named Lisa.
I didn’t care for Linda too much, and I cared even less for Lisa.
I thought Lisa was disingenuous, kind of sneaky, and overall not to be trusted.

Ripped from the pages of Inc. magazine’s recent article,  7 Habits of Remarkably Likeable Bosses, I give you … something slightly different:
The 7 Habits of Remarkably Likeable HR Managers!

All the great new analytics tools work from the assumption that we have clean data.

Let’s look at how 95 percent of people are hired.
Besides a little variability, almost every person, at some point in their career, has been hired in this manner: Interview someone for an hour. If you like them, you make them an offer.

Giving feedback, particularly constructive feedback, is often a stressful task. As counterintuitive as it may seem, giving feedback to a top performer can be even tougher. Top performers may not ha...

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Professionally, my life’s work has revolved around making work easier and more productive for everyone involved.

Jim Collins said that “a culture of discipline is not a principle of business; it is a principle of greatness.” Those words might resonate with many leaders who are feeling frustrated about aspects of accountability, attention to detail,...

Though 80 percent of employers claim they are concerned about a skills gap, it would seem as if employers would always be “on” looking for new talent.

The hard truth is that the gender balance at the top of the business world won’t change until the gentlemen currently in power want it to — and learn how to do it.