We are certainly being flooded with news about change these days. All you have to do is read the headlines about the political changes going on all over the world. In the Middle East, we continually hear about governments undergoing change through revolution both violent and non-violent. Here in the U.S., we hear about the [...]
A few days ago, a number of us began a discussion on Twitter. I am delighted and excited about engaging in this ideafest with @RitaCJackson , VP and Team Lead of Sales for HRmarketer and @JenniferBrogee, Chief Information Officer for myStaffingPro . We all agreed to have duelling blogs today so here is my first one. First [...]
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Disco, bell bottoms and the Bee Gees may be by-gones, but something that never seems to go out of style is the need for better collaboration between colleagues.
No matter how great your individual staff members are, if they can’t get along, you’ve got a problem.
Communication is one of the areas I invariably discuss with the [...]
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According to the American Institute of Stress, job stress costs U.S. businesses “more than $300 billion annually due to increased absenteeism, employee turnover, diminished productivity, medical, legal and insurance expenses and Workers’ Compensation payments.”
That’s ten times the cost of all strikes combined, the organization says.
Even if, as an employer, you didn’t care about a ‘warm [...]
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Lately, I’ve been struck by the number of organizational consulting requests coming in as the result of disrespectful and potentially harmful employee behaviors – or, as the esteemed Miss Manners may more charmingly put it, workplace incivility.
We’re hearing a lot more organizations ask questions like:
Can you help us with a manager who yells and is [...]
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This month, Jon Vegosen discusses some interesting developments relating to technology and employers, as well as the Illinois Family Military Leave Act.
FTC Issues Online Privacy Report
Data privacy breaches ranging from WikiLeaks to the various privacy lawsuits against Facebook, Google and others have made news in recent months. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is urging employers [...]
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This week, it was all over the news: The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is suing a Connecticut company that terminated an employee for posting negative remarks about her supervisor on her Facebook… but the root cause of this is really an employee relations issue.
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This month, Jon Vegosen discusses some important employment law developments and highlights a new resource.
Illinois Will Prohibit Discrimination Based on Credit History
Effective January 1, 2011, the Employee Credit Privacy Act will become law. It provides that employers may not ask about an employee’s or applicant’s credit history. In addition, employers may not refuse to hire, [...]
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Having been in the employee assistance program (EAP) and substance abuse fields for a couple decades, I’ve seen a lot of different EAPs. But I really enjoyed my time at Creative Care Management (CCM) – first as director of service operations and then as President and CEO and owner – because we really cared about [...]
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I must admit that the last few months have been very exciting for me and Perspectives Ltd. As I have mentioned on other occasions, Perspectives and I have been providing services to the workplace for almost 30 years, primarily via EAPs. And during that time, we have seen the workplace and the EAP field change [...]
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