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The time has come for a new employer-employee deal: The tour-of-duty approach
The time has come, we believe, for a new employer-employee compact. You can’t have an agile company if you give employees lifetime contracts—and the best people don’t want one employer for life anyway. But you can build a better compact than “every man for himself.” In fact, some companies are doing so… The tour-of-duty approach … Continue reading
India / One in four to switch jobs
As the growth trends firm up in job market, India is set to witness highest attrition rate globally with possibility of one in four employees switching jobs in the country, a survey said on Friday. The survey conducted by global human resource and management consultancy major Hay Group also said that the concerns among the … Continue reading
HR / 56% of employers are using social media for internal communications – askGrapevine HR
Employers are increasingly using social media to communicate and build communities with their employees, according to new research. However the survey by global professional services company Towers Watson also found there is little consensus over which tools are most effective. Nicola Cull, director, communication and change management consulting at Towers Watson said: . “By its … Continue reading
Indonesia / Near 70 percent of workforce has not completed junior high school
An influential business lobby has called for better management of Indonesia’s human resources to help the country prepare for entry into a regional economic community in 2015. James Riady, the deputy for health and education affairs at the Indonesian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), said at a meeting in Jakarta on Wednesday that it … Continue reading
Job Boards / The preferred method for recruiting
jobs.ac.uk, one of the leading international job boards for careers in academic, research, science and related professions, announces the results of its survey of recruitment trends across the academic, research and science sectors. The survey of over 170 organisations revealed that the use of job boards has become an essential HR practice, with 64% of … Continue reading
The decline in job satisfaction and employee engagement
“The decline in job satisfaction and employee engagement revealed by the Government’s Skills and Employment Survey makes for worrying reading for businesses, the economy and wider society. But CIPD research shows that the voluntary sector appears to be bucking this trend, with valuable lessons to be learned for the private and public sectors. Nevertheless, we … Continue reading
Canada / Human capital trends survey 2013
To build leadership and talent, organizations need to do more than maintain good employee relations: they need to focus on direct organizational benefits that solve business problems. HR is strategic Deloitte’s survey of 1,300 senior business leaders in 59 countries reveals current and emerging human capital trends influencing the future course of talent, HR and … Continue reading
BC / The auto sector needs skilled labour
The Automobile Retailers Association and its industry partners have conducted a study to identify future labour needs of the sector. The research project took an industry “pulse check” to compare future labour demand with anticipated supply to see how they will align. The project identified a future gap in all employment areas in the automotive … Continue reading
SA / Struggling to keep skilled workers
COMPANIES that employ people with skills classified as essential and scarce are in a dog-eat-dog situation, maybe not so much in the private sector but the public sector is surely feeling the pinch. Yesterday, state arms manufacturing company Denel complained to Parliament about how it was training engineers only to have them leave the company … Continue reading
Hiring / Successful Startups (video)
Staffing a startup is an art. And while you’ll find dozens of different theories on right-fit hiring in the blogs, books and podcasts of seasoned HR reps and startup founders, there are two words you’re mostly like to find in all of them: culture and drive. It seems intuitive, right? Only hire clever, execution-oriented employees … Continue reading
23 % of Job candidates pulling out of hiring process
Shortlisted job candidates who pull out of the hiring process are hurting company productivity, according to a survey by global talent solutions company, Hudson. Twenty three per cent of the respondents withdrew from the recruitment process, while about a quarter were willing to reject job offers after they had signed on the dotted line. Hudson … Continue reading
Gen Y: A ‘ticking time-bomb for employers ?
Generation Y workers represent the management class of the future, yet they also exhibit a new-found job mobility which, from an employer’s point of view, is a ticking time-bomb of potential cost and disruption to their businesses. The iOpener Institute in October 2012 gathered and studied questionnaire responses relating to workforce issues from over 18,000 … Continue reading
US / 86% of workers will actively look for a new position in 2013
For the fourth year in a row most workers are expressing their intention to seek new employment elsewhere, according to a new poll of more than 700 U.S. employees by Right Management, the talent and career management expert within ManpowerGroup. Eighty-six percent of the employees polled said they plan to actively look for a new … Continue reading
Flexible retirement
Mickie Ashman has what she regards as the ideal arrangement at work as she nears retirement. The 66-year-old Calgary human-resources co-ordinator has the security of a permanent job at AltaGas Ltd., an energy infrastructure firm, but she has been able to reduce her work hours from full-time to a more comfortable three days a week. … Continue reading
Workplace bullying – Follow the debate
Last week, Fulton County banned bullying in the workplace, making it a firable offense. The director of a workplace institute praises Commissioner Bill Edwards, who proposed the rules for addressing the harm bullying inflicts on victims and the work environment. While a criminal justice professor applauds anti-bullying policies intent, he says they aren’t an instant … Continue reading
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