Do you do a background check on your executive candidates? For whatever reason, we think it’s important to double-check that the kid with fast food experience didn’t lie about his experience. Surely someone with a stellar resume is too important, and bosses who are too important to contact.
I’m an HR manager, and a supervisor made a complaint about another employee. I started an investigation by speaking to the accused on May 14th and looked into video evidence based on the accusations on May 18th. I was not able to find evidence of what the supervisor
What is workforce planning? Workforce planning is the people side of planning, but some businesses skip it, thinking that people will just appear when needed. Workforce planning aligns core business goals with people strategy. It makes no sense to plan on a new product launch next year without thinking
Naomi Osaka said she suffers from depression and, as such, she didn’t want to participate in mandatory press conferences during the French Open. Naomi Osaka said she suffers from depression and, as such, she didn’t want to participate in mandatory press conferences during the French Open. The French Open and
HR departments are always busy. They track hiring trends, follow market-rate salaries, manage benefits, oversee learning content, mediate employee conflicts, fill out paperwork, developing workplace policies and more. So what happens when you’re a one-person HR team? You do everything yourself. And with the legal scrutinies put on the
Remember when Amy Cooper, a White woman, had her dog off the leash and Christian Cooper (no relation), a Black man, asked her to put her dog back on the leash? This was a perfectly reasonable request, and it all escalated to Ms. Cooper calling the police on Mr.
“The great resignation is coming,” says Anthony Klotz, an associate professor of management at Texas A&M University. This makes it sound like it’s some asteroid or maybe sharks, and all we can do is brace ourselves, get our post-apocalyptic jumpsuits ready, and invest in crypto-currency. Or something. Klotz
100 percent remote jobs are a hot ticket. After a year of working from home, some people have decided they never want to go back to the office, and, unfortunately, scammers are preying on them. When you interview for an office-based job, you go in for an interview
A reader question: I manage field sales reps. I flew in for a scheduled “field ride” with an employee and upon arrival she let me know that she had a “doctor’s appointment” and wouldn’t be available for the field ride. I sat around the city all day long
I don’t swear. Let me clarify. I rarely swear. The exceptions were like this Sunday morning when my cat made a flying leap onto my head at 5:20 am, waking me up. I have never sworn at work, I don’t like swearing, and I don’t allow bad words
