Articles on Human Resources

Do you know what The Onion is? If not, it's a satirical newspaper and website that is hysterical...you should read it.

Silence is a Leadership Trait by Samuel Bacharach Quote: Between the words, between the actions, between the political strategies, leaders must create

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. I just read a 'call

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Do you know the full

Get Ready As Corporate Sites and Social Networks Start To Connect by Jeremiah Owyang on Web Strategy Why Authenticity is More Important Than Ever by Aaron

Update - My original post was titled "A milestone - 4 years old". Apparently I can't count :)  I started the blog in 2006 so it's my blog's THIRD

Social change takes more than social media by Ivan Booth on the Rootwork Blog (via Beth Kanter's Blog) KISS: The Difference Between Strategy and Tactics -

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Today's CIO is

Can an organization be built on individuality with a focus on bringing humanity back to business? I think so. The modern day corporation was developed to

This is a guest post from Michael Sebastian, PhD.   Find out more information about Michael here. Anger, fear, depression and fatigue. These are the

The latest edition of CIO Magazine has an interesting article titled "Power from Your People" written by Karan Sorenson, VP & CIO at Johnson &

This is a guest post by Heather Johnson, who writes on the subject of how to become a nurse. She invites your feedback at heatherjohnson2323 at gmail dot

A friend of mine was applying for an IT position posted on a staffing/recruiting company website. The position was for Director of IT for a Dallas energy

If you'd like to know the answer that question, I have a new book for you to read: "Why Work Sucks" by Cali and Jody. This book (which I haven't started

Aligning business and information technology by hiring the right people. Implementing Human Capital Management practices to ensure alignment.

Employee engagement has been seen as a 'buzzword' for some time but also been touted as something that every organization should focus on. It appears that

Heard a wonderful story last week from a developer friend of mine and thought I'd share (with commentary of course!). He had taken a full-time job at an

Management issues had posted another article (see the previous one here and my comments on the topic here) topic titled "Still suspicious of flexible

Management Issues recently published an article titled "Flexible working boosts the bottom line" that reports on some very interesting research results

In a previous post titled "The Daily WTF: “Job Interview 2.0?", I talked about an interviewee's response to an interviewer asking him to "Design a House"

If you don't know The Daily WTF, you should...most of the content is programmer related (and usually goes over my head) but some of the content is quite

In early March, Mind Hacks had an interesting article titled "Are you experienced? Does it matter?" which adds another wrinkle to my the argument I made

Jeff Attwood over at Coding Horror wrote a great article titled "The Years of Experience Myth" that everyone should add to their 'must read' list. The

"Employee Engagement" is one of those 'buzzwords' that you hear thrown about quite a bit...but this is a buzzword that should be carefully thought about

Excerpt from a paper on Information Technology Human Capital as Competitive Advantage, covering IT-business alignment and human capital management.

HR World has a new article titled "30 Interview Questions You Can't Ask and 30 Sneaky, Legal Alternatives to Get the Same Info". At first, the title

As a follow up to my previous post titled "Dress Codes at Work", I wanted to present the following hypothetical question to my readers. You work for a

Have you ever walked into an interview with a preconceived notion of the job you were interviewing for and after during/after the interview you felt that

Chapter 13 of "What were they thinking" by Jeffrey Pfeffer has some excellent advice for hiring managers....the chapter, titled 'Resumes Don't Tell" has a

Five practical interviewing tips for hiring managers — be prepared, have a conversation, and stop reading canned questions. Plus a real cautionary tale.

A candid rant about broken recruiting practices, recycled blog content, and overhyped business books — honest frustrations and notes to organizations.

Sally Lemke, a nurse in the Chicago area, was named VNA Foundation "Super Star" on July 10th. She'll be without a Job on July 30th according to the

If you haven't seen the "Project Cartoon", you need too. The original can be found here at http://www.projectcartoon.com and they've now given people the

Why the sink-or-swim approach to employee onboarding fails and what companies should do instead. Lessons from research and real experience.

I was asked by a former professor to write a review of Peter Drucker's "They're not employees; they're people" article to provide as an example to his

Question: Want to know one of my pet peeves (hint: re-read the title of this post)? Answer: Linear Thinking (Books on Linear Thinking). What is linear

Don Blohowiak has a new post on his "Leadership. Now." blog titled "Endurance Reward" where he discusses the 'old-timer, high salary' issue within

An article on the British Computer Society's website titled "Companies claim formal IT qualifications unimportant" discusses a survey performed by IT

Recently I've been involved in helping a good friend (we'll call him Jim) search for a job. He has been unemployed now for quite some time and he is

A story broke on Tuesday December 5th in the Dallas morning News (DMN) about the Dallas Independent School District's new head of the Office of District

Prior to reading the new Businessweek (Dec 11th 2006), I ran across Web Worker Daily's (WWD) post about the article and the way in which Best Buy is

Was reading a post on David Maister's blog about the method in which Pfizer may or may not be using email to let their workforce know if they are part of

This is an excerpt from a paper I wrote while working on my MBA. The modern

This is an excerpt of a paper I wrote while working on my MBA.

This is an excerpt of a paper I wrote while working on my MBA. One