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Employee Satisfaction: Is it as BAD as you think?
It seems like a new employee job satisfaction survey is released every week. The results of these often gloomy surveys are then blogged about, tweeted, and posted on social sites such as Linkedin. I’ll admit that I’ve often blogged about … Continue reading
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Employers Bear the Load of the Overweight Worker
I have written past posts on weight affecting a job candidate’s ability to land a job based on the notion that an overweight employee could more significantly impact a company’s healthcare costs in comparison to a candidate of normal weight. Gallup … Continue reading
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What percent of your employees are going to leave in 2012?
In 2010 nearly 900 high potential employees were interviewed. Twenty-percent said they planned to leave their employer in the next 12 months. Are one in five of your best performing employees ready to bolt? Could it be an even higher … Continue reading
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Your employees are leaving, and it might be your leader’s fault!
According to the 2011 Talent Survey by Aon Hewitt, 61% of more than 1,300 business professionals surveyed anticipate an increased focus on talent development in the coming year. Forty percent believe there will be an increased focus on hiring, and … Continue reading
Posted in Behavioral Interviews, Employee Retention
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Why do 46% of hires fail within the first 18 months?
The answer to the question above could save your organization a good deal of money in employee turnover costs. As reported in HR Executive magazine, Leadership IQ concluded a three year study of more than 5,200 hiring managers from 312 public … Continue reading
Job Fit Increases Job Satisfaction & Employee Loyalty!
Paul Studebaker, Editor-in-Chief of Sustainable Plant, an online information resource and community dedicated to advancing the sustainability of manufacturing and other industrial operations recently posted an article discussing the key performance metrics companies use to measure the success of their … Continue reading
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Hire Outside Your Comfort Zone
A great post from Kris Dunn at hrcapatalist.com discusses the merits of hiring an artist for a regular job at your company. This got me thinking about the way many of our clients have selected candidates over the years. Most … Continue reading
A “Thank You” Gets More Done
Science has recently proven what most of us should already know, saying thank you motivates people. In an article on Compensation Cafe Derek Irvine explores a recent study on the value of a simple thank you. The study had a … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Development, Employee Retention, Team Building
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Dating at work; Good idea?
According to a survey of 2,000 U.S. workers, 59 percent say they have had an office romance but around 30 percent say it affected their personal or professional relationships with others. Despite this 65% would be willing to do so … Continue reading
Why Do Employees Quit?
An article in the Gallup Management Journal indicates that while about 50% of people leave for better pay or career advancement 37% left either because of bad management or a lack of job fit. That means over one third of … Continue reading
