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The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures how much average prices are moving by surveying households to find their average spend on specific goods and services during a given time period and then comparing that total cost to previous time periods.
Does your company conduct exit interviews? What questions do you ask? What benefits do you gain? These Q&A sessions with an employee who is leaving the company can be done in person, but they can also be done in writing—via e-mail, online forms, or even mailed questionnaires.
In today’s Advisor, we look at recommendations—including for training—from a recent study on suicide in the workplace.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently proposed rules that would require companies to disclose the relationship between executive compensation and the company’s financial performance. Today and tomorrow, we’ll look at what these rules mean for employers.
A great many employees indicate that professional development is a key to retention—so it’s important to know what’s happening in the real world! The results of our Training and Development Survey are in. Read on to see how participants are dealing with this issue.
Athletes have many ways to generate income—from their sport compensation to product endorsements and licensing to public appearances. Forbes recently issued a list of “The World’s 100 Highest Paid Athletes,” and which sports dominate the list may surprise you, as well as where the first female appears.
In yesterday’s Advisor, expert Matt Adam, speaking at the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) Talent Management Conference and Exhibition, held recently in San Diego, debunked three myths of mobile recruiting. Today, a good example of a mobile site, plus several ways to engage in mobile recruiting. For a good example of a site, Adam […]
by David Johnson Including a mandatory arbitration provision in an employment contract is a trendy thing to do. Is it the right thing to do for your business? Let’s look at some commonly accepted pros and cons of arbitration and dispel some myths. Pros Arbitration is cheaper and quicker. This is usually true because court […]
In yesterday’s Advisor, we looked at how several companies emphasize employee development and promotion from within. Today, we look at a partnership program that provides a year of training in skilled trades.
Yesterday’s Advisor featured Ben Casnocha, entrepreneur and cofounder of LinkedIn, sharing his new vision for the employer/employee relationship: alliances for tours of duty. Today, a template for a tour of duty.