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Employee Motivation: 5 Key Steps to Improve Employee Attitude

March 16, 2010 - There are 5 key steps you can take to motivate employees and improve employee attitude. The steps are derived from employee motivation techniques illustrated in a training presentation for supervisors from BLR.

Paid Sick Leave Bill Would Help More than 30 Million Workers, Proponents Argue

March 15, 2010 - Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee of Congress have released a report estimating that more than 30 million workers would gain access to paid sick leave if it were required by federal law.

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Eldercare Remains Silent Problem (but It Shouldn’t)

March 11, 2010 - Imagine an auditorium full of HR reps and managers, assembled to hear the latest about employee benefits. A hush falls over the crowd as Chuck Bongiovanni, founder and president of CarePatrol, takes the stage. He looks around the room, waits a moment, then asks the audience a pointed question: Can anyone in the room guarantee that one of their employees won’t get a phone call this very day informing them that mom or dad is in the hospital and the employee needs to leave work immediately?

Shall We Kill the Performance Review?

March 08, 2010 - Sam Culbert thinks we should. A professor of management at UCLA who teaches MBA students, Culbert has written a just-published book, Get Rid of the Performance Review! He wants to see performance reviews replaced with something he calls performance previews.

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Are ‘Unreliable' Workers a Protected Class?

Nicole Mamo, a veteran employment recruiter in Norfolk, UK, knew well how to write a nondiscriminatry advertisement for hospital workers that did not mention age, race, or sexual orientation. However, she was shocked when her ad was rejected as unacceptable by the newspaper because she used the terms “reliable” and “hard working,” which could be viewed as “offensive to unreliable people.”

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