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Why It Pays To Let Top Performers Go


That’s what they tell me is an attention grabber.  A witty headline designed to lure you in.  And if you’re reading this it worked, and if you’re not, I won’t know otherwise.  Kinda puts me in a win-win situation!
Anyway…
In our upcoming book A Manager’s Guide to Workforce Engagement (World at Work, Spring 2008), Dr. Hundley […]

Pain for Performance


A recent article in the Wall Street Journal highlighted an innovative health care initiative by a consortium of businesses.   Designed to improve patient care and satisfaction while at the same time holding or reducing overall medical costs, the program would provide yearly bonuses to doctors of $125 per patient based on improvements in overall care. There’s an […]

Another “World-Shattering” Study!


A recent study of human resource professionals looked at the value vs. use of various employee retention methods.  First, you know how I feel about retention surveys.  You get the right answers to the wrong question.  Employee engagement should be the goal of an organization.  Improved retention is just one of my outcomes.
Anyway…
What I found […]