A new study was just released by the Center for State & Local Government Excellence.  No, that isn’t a typo.  No matter what your experience as a “customer” of state and local government products and services, there really is a Center for Excellence.  No, that’s not the point of this blog entry, just me being […]

The unsettling news came out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on January 4th.  The unemployment rate jumped to 5%, the highest since January of 2007.  The news, coupled with the sub-prime mess, has pushed the pundits (economic and political) to begin the recession talk, right in time for our next presidential election. 
Having studied the […]

Sometimes my blogs write themselves…
A study came out today indicating employees waste 29% of their time on the job, equating to roughly 70 days per year employers are paying their employees for doing “nothin”.  This study determined the cost of this wasted time to business at $658,000,000,000 per year, and put 80% of “the blame” […]

Just ran across this little gem, thought I would share it with you…
According to ORC, in workplaces without a consistent method of communicating news, one third of employees say “off the record” conversations with a supervisor is their first source of news.  BET HUMAN RESOURCES LOVES THAT!
Nearly three in ten say they get the news […]

Did you know that I am a political science major?  My wife certainly does, as I’ve been glued to the TV the last couple of weeks watching the presidential campaign results from Iowa and New Hampshire.  I have no desire to get into discussions of candidates or their views, and wouldn’t have even brought it […]

Nearly one in four workers has been with their employer less than two months, one third of workers have been employed by their company less than 2 years.  In fact, a greater number of employees have tenure of less than 2 years than have tenure of 10 years or more.
Based on my organization’s 2006 Workforce […]

My friend, Dana Knight is a reporter for the Indianapolis Star.  Dana concentrates on workforce issues and is currently going around the city learning new skills as she “temps” at various companies. Today Dana talked about her stint at Subway.  Some good stuff, you should read it.
Anyway…
There’s also this “Just 1 Minute” section which tends […]

Cool title, huh?  It’s the title of my book, written with Dr. Stephen Hundley, one of the co-authors of my first book Workforce Engagement, Strategies to Attract, Motivate, and Retain Employees, World-at-Work’s third best-selling book in 2007.  Being #3 ain’t bad, and it gives Stephen and I something to shoot for in 2008.
As you can […]

I do like my friends at SHRM, the Society for HR Management.  They are the world’s leading HR association, the proverbial 800 pound elephant sittin’ in the fridge.  What SHRM says about a particular issue carries a lot of weight with their 200,000 members and the businesses that employ them.  
So, you know that if I am […]