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BusinessWeek ranks paperback business books that are the most recent bestsellers. 1. Blink By Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books $15.99) 2. J.K. Lasser’s Your Income Tax2008 By The J.K. Lasser Institute (Wiley $17.95) 3. What Color Is Your Parachute? By Richard Nelson Bolles (Ten Speed Press $18.95) 4. A Guide to the Project Management Body […]
Web Editor Wendi Watts reviews the book Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World by Bill Clinton. Review highlights how book can be used to start a corporate giving or charity program or by employees individually. While most books about business tell you how to make more money for yourself or your business, […]
The following is a list of the bestselling paperback business books as ranked by the New York Times on March 17. 1 Fairtax: The Truth, by Neal Boortz and John Linder with Rob Woodall. (Harper) A radio host and a U.S. congressman defend their 2005 plan for abolishing federal income taxes and the I.R.S. 2 […]
California employers can allow employees to work longer days and shorter workweeks without incurring overtime pay by implementing an alternative workweek arrangement. In Parts 1 and 2 of our series on alternative workweeks, we guided you through the steps to set up one of these flexible schedules and explained the different rules that apply for […]
When a Fresno jury in 2006 awarded $1.7 million for sexual harassment to an employee who charged that she was spanked as part of team-building exercises at work, the verdict sent ripples through the employer community as a stark reminder of the need to keep a close check on workplace conduct. Now, however, the verdict […]
by Rachel Ravary McCarthy Tetrault No one can deny that security concerns have taken on monumental proportions in the post-9/11 era. Buzzwords like national security, homeland security, border security, supply chain security, perimeter security, and security threats have become part of our daily vocabulary. National security is also high on the list of priorities of […]
We have quite a diverse population in our area, and many of our applicants do not have good English skills. Can we require our employees to be able to speak English? We think it’s critical for our salespeople who deal with the public, and really, just as important for our assembly, fabrication, and warehouse workers […]