BlogNotions HR Newsletter March, 2011

March 2, 2011 • See How Easy Attendance and Scheduling Can Be • The Missing Link: Driving Business Results Through Pay-for-Performance • Compensation Management in the Recovering Economy Jen Turi Jen has more than 15 years of experience in recruiting, account management, operations, and business to business outside sales. See full bio David Zinger David Zinger, M.Ed., is an employee engagement writer, educator, speaker, coach, and consultant. See full bio Lance Haun Lance Haun is Community Director for ERE Media and blogger at Rehaul.com. See full bio Michael VanDervort Michael VanDervort is an eclec��tic HR pro��fes��sional with an extra��or��di��nary curios��ity about how things work. See full bio Steve Bruce Stephen D. Bruce is a PHR-certified, award-winning author with many years of experience covering HR topics. See full bio Terrence Seamon Terrence "Terry" Seamon is a Training and Organization Development consultant. A coach, blogger, and transitionist, Terry is ready to help individuals, teams, and organizations facilitate change to achieve results. See full bio Dan Erwin Dan Erwin is a specialist in performance improvement who has coached more than 400 officers, executives and managers from top American corporations. See full bio If you are interested in becoming a contributing thought leader, please contact us. Retaining Your Mature Workforce by Jen Turi Research shows that one very important factor in why older workers leave their jobs is because they don���t feel like they are needed anymore. Older employees will get discouraged when they feel their purpose is in doubt, anyone else in the company can do what they do ��� and more effectively, and if they start [...] Read More | Comments How to Captivate and Impress with Your LinkedIn Profile by Lance Haun Tweet Overheard on the subway one day: “Who needs a resume when you’ve got LinkedIn?” I have to disagree. You do still need a resume. And LinkedIn is not it. Yes, you can use your LinkedIn profile as an alternative place to store data regarding your education and employment history. But if LinkedIn is replacing the [...] Read More | Comments Building a Business Case for a Vendor Management System Free Offer available for download. Building a Business Case for a Vendor Management System managing your contingent workforce and services spend programs. Download the full offer for free here. Employee Engagement: Management Moxie Through Subtraction by David Zinger What do you need to subtract to increase full employee engagement? Subtraction is one of the four basic arithmetic operations; it is the inverse of addition, meaning that if we start with any number and add any number and then subtract the same number we added, we return to the number we started with. Subtraction is [...] Read More | Comments HR a Dumb Concept? Many Readers Agree! by Steve Bruce Responses from readers to a recent HR Daily Advisor��article that included HR as one of the five dumbest management concepts ever ranged from “right on” to “lost in a sea of intestinal compressed air.” To our surprise, many readers agreed with blogger Goeffrey James who came up with the five flawed management concepts. The original article [...] Read More | Comments Can You Really Tell When Your Boss is Telling the Truth? by Dan Erwin Bosses matter a lot because nearly all employees have them. ��And most bosses also have bosses. There are at least 21 million bosses in the United States. ��Bob Sutton points out that estimates run as high as 38 million bosses. ��Far more often than not our success is tied to that relationship with our boss.����It’s [...] Read More | Comments Are You Ready for Your 3rd Act? by Terrence Seamon I’m delighted to welcome Bev Scott as my first guest blogger of 2011. Consultant, author, and coach, Bev has been one of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of Organization Development. A few years ago, Bev (and her collaborator Patricia Cavanaugh) started a new business venture called The 3rd Act, focused on helping [...] Read More | Comments NLRB heading towards micro union, minority unions? by Michael VanDervort How many union contracts are too many? When the employees at a company are represented by a union, one of the first objectives management pursues is to seek a satisfactory collective bargaining agreement covering most of the employees.�� This is important for a number of reason, not the least of which is [...] Read More | Comments The BlogNotions HR Newsletter is brought to you by NetLine Corporation. 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