From the monthly archives:

January 2011

Your company may be homophobic

January 31, 2011

Image via Wikipedia Associate Resource Groups at Walmart Home Office I didn’t know that Walmart had Associate Resource Groups like these, devoted to creating diversity and minority communties inside their company. I don’t know how effective they are, or anything more than that they have them, but it was kind of a pleasant discovery.  I [...]

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Can you tell me if I am married?

January 28, 2011

Image via Wikipedia I got two tickets to paradise Just another vlog from yours truly about the risks and perils of trying to buy love and happiness in Fiji from the annals of HRHistory Related articles Is Fiji a non extradition country (wiki.answers.com) World Battlefronts: Yanks in the Cannibal Isles (time.com) Couples can win a [...]

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Snow days can really frost your employees

January 28, 2011

Image via Wikipedia Develop your weather policy before the storm hits There has been a lot  more winter weather activity in many parts of the South than we normally see.  Most recently, Atlanta was hit very hard with a lot of snow and ice.    Given that Atlanta only has like 15 snow plows, the city [...]

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Get your unofficial MBA with “Biz School in a Box”

January 27, 2011

Image via Wikipedia Speak the language of business (from the HRH archives) One of the recommendations to came out of HRevolution 2010 (via Laurie Ruettimann and Lance Haun) was that human resources professionals need to learn to speak the language of business, and stay abreast of business issues outside human resources.  This is good advice.  [...]

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Eye on the NLRB: how agency rulemaking could affect your business

January 27, 2011

NLRB trying to make big changes? This post was written by Peter List of Labor Union Report with the title NLRB Moves to Humiliate Employers, Give Unions Access to Employees & Property.  I am reposting it here with his permission.     For that, he has my thanks. While the article is very long, I thought it was worth sharing [...]

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Are you going to quit your job in 2011?

January 27, 2011

Poll  – quitting your job? Take our poll and become an instant statistic!  Will you be quitting your job in 2011? From Drop Box

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Time to Elance at your oDesk

January 25, 2011

There are a number of websites that can help you find work if and when you are willing to make the leap into freelancing, including sites such as oDesk, Freelancer, Guru, Mechanical Turk and eLance.

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How to put the 100 Best Companies List to work for your company

January 24, 2011

Image via Wikipedia Put the 100 Best Companies List to work for your company The 2011 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list just came out about a week ago.  I am a big fan of these lists, especially since I have been lucky enough to work for some companies that have made this [...]

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A sharp decline in union membership

January 21, 2011

Unions lose more than 600,000 members Despite all their efforts to promote their cause, and to sell their value proposition of building a strong middle class economy, union membership has reached its lowest level in my lifetime   According to an AP news report, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting one of the worst declines [...]

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The mythology of your brand

January 20, 2011

Your brand is your story From Drop Box I’ll assume that you know who these guys are – Mac and PC, the iconic brand images representing Apple and Microsoft in a series of popular commercials that cleverly pointed out the cultural differences between the two companies in many ways – image, culture, and creativity.  I [...]

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