The results are in, and it’s official! Working America, a community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, holds a contest every year in which people tell their bad-boss stories. The three best (worst?) get published. Take a look at the winners. Sound like anyone you know?
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Tags: AFL-CIO, Working America, worst bosses
Periodically, we ask three HR managers how they’d handle a real-life problem at work. Today’s problem: HR has to make a convincing argument to get more money from the budget.
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All that “seat at the table” talk is nice, but there are sure signs that HR is — or isn’t — getting the respect and attention it needs to build a better organization.
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Tags: Fortune 500, Liz Ryan, Personnel
When people get elevated into a management job, they usually make some assumptions about the position. And they’re usually wrong.
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Tags: leadership, management, Poynter Institute
A popular book on the market urges applicants to get the answers to these questions from managers during interviews, and before signing on with an employer. Are your managers ready with responses?
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Tags: 201 Best Questions to Ask on Your Interview, applicants, interviews, John Kador
Whether you’re thinking about offering health-club memberships or free coffee and doughnuts, there’s one step in the process than needs to be considered before putting the “OK” stamp on the idea: How will it fly if the day comes that we have to kill benefits or raise the cost to employees
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Tags: benefits, Google, health insurance, Towers Perrin
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- An office keyboard has more bacteria on it than the average toilet seat.
- Women spread more germs than men do.
We have the answers to those - and more work-hygiene facts you wish you’d never heard about.
Tags: Charles Gerba, New York, san francisco, University of Arizona
People who are right out of school need a different type of orientation than someone who’s walking in the door with 10 years’ experience elsewhere. Specifically, the rookies need help with three major employment issues.
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Tags: 401(k), health insurance, medicare, orientation, retirement, social security, taxes, w-4
In light of new laws in Florida and other states, we asked, “Should employees be allowed to store guns in their cars while parked on company property, even if the employer objects?” Here’s how readers responded, accompanied by their comments.
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Tags: Florida, guns, Second Amendment, survey
Two employees - maybe one of them is a supervisor — are involved in a nasty spat that’s dragging everyone down. Now it’s time for someone to step in - and that someone is you.
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Tags: conflicts, negotiation
