U.S. HR Articles
September 1 2010 - Informal support networks in the workplace are less advantageous to women employees in terms of career progression..
September 1 2010 - Low-income or minority status students prepare for
college in a different way to their more privileged counterparts, regardless of academic ability or future plans.
August 30 2010 - What makes the best in HR really the best? Human resources is a complex, multifaceted field that requires
professionals to have the ability to juggle priorities and excel at a number of tasks-from the sometimes tedious to the often strategic.
August 27 2010 - Employees' perceptions of work conditions have a significant impact on the performance of their organizations,
according to research from Gallup, Inc.
August 20 2010 - How
potential employees can best respond to increased use of recruiters as the economy recovers.
August 19 2010 - Are You Making These 3 Mistakes Most Organizations Unknowingly Make?
August 16 2010 - Cautioning against a 'one size fits all' approach to business and management styles, the authors suggest a cross-cultural perspective can
facilitate co-working in an era of globalization.
August 14 2010 - Organizations that only consider age when addressing generational divisions in the workforce risk
losing knowledge to retirements and higher staff turnover.
August 14 2010 - Modest responses from men in job interviews tend to be associated with weakness and low status.
August 12 2010 - Gender harassment in the workplace has a negative impact on women’s physical and emotional health
irrespective of whether it includes unwanted sexual attention..
August 11 2010 - Attractive women may experience discrimination when applying for jobs traditionally considered "masculine" and
where appearance is not considered important.
August 6 2010 - Nonfarm payroll employment declined by 131,000 in July, and
the unemployment rate remained at 9.5 percent.
August 4 2010 - Highly skilled temporary immigrants to the U.S. contribute to technological innovation without detriment to native-born
workers.
August 1 2010 - Increased use of business practices such as outsourcing, hiring temporary workers and reliance on
project-based teams is having a detrimental effect on employees and may pose long-term problems for employers.
August 1 2010 - Corporate directors responsible for internal whistle-blowing systems often take no action regarding anonymous allegations, even when they
involve grave accounting breaches.
July 2 2010 - Three-quarters of employers offer paid time off programs in order to compete in the labor market.
June 28 2010 - Some 25 per cent plan to leave their current
employers in the next year compared to 10 per cent in 2006.
June 28 2010 - Telecommuters
experience a better work/life balance than office-based employees even when working significantly longer hours
June 17 2010 - Performance management should be much more than a process for documenting and delivering feedback, coaching
and ratings.
June 11 2010 - The most common causes of annoyance in the workplace are co-workers with poor time management skills (cited by
43 per cent of respondents) and the prevalence of gossip (36 per cent).
June 11 2010 - A mere 21 per cent of small business owners employing the fewest staff (between two and 10) are earning more than
they hoped for when starting their companies - despite working an average of 58 hours per week.
June 9 2010 - U.S. organizations risk losing employees who feel under-valued and de-motivated as
the economy recovers
June 9 2010 - There is a strong association between appearance and success in business organizations.
May 20 2010 - Loss of employment can have significant long-term health consequences
May 19 2010 - Work-related Stress, Shift Work And Coronary Heart Disease
May 19 2010 - Connecting with employees' emotions and personal value systems could encourage whistle-blowing in relation
to to a range of work-related crimes and misconduct.
April 17 2010 - A significant
number of women and under-represented minority chemists and chemical engineers have been discouraged from pursuing a career in science, technology,
engineering or mathematics (STEM).
April 17 2010 - Immigrants with disabilities are more likely to be employed than a comparable group
born in the USA.
April 17 2010 - U.S. employees use a variety of strategies such as calling in sick or using vacation time to survive the 'Holiday Hiatus' between public
holidays early in the year and Memorial Day on 31st May.
April 17 2010 - Women researchers in the life sciences still receive lower levels of compensation than their male equivalents,
including those at higher academic and professional levels.
March 20 2010 - What is required to convince people that their career aspirations are unrealistic?
Researchers found that informing participants they did not have high enough qualifications or appropriate skills was
insufficient. The negative consequences of failure also had to be made explicit.
March 20 2010 - The work environment may be a key factor deterring
women from careers in computer science.
November 19 2009 - Management stereotypes are likely to evolve as more women assume leadership roles in the workforce.
October 27 2009 - A new report from Ambient Insight shows that the market for
Self-paced E-Learning in the US will reach $16.7 billion in 2009.
October 27 2009 - The latest 'UnretirementSM Index' published by the US arm of
Sun Life International reveals that 65% of American employees expect to delay their retirement by at least a year -
11% more than at the end of 2008.
October 27 2009 - A recent survey analyzed selected U.S. strategic mergers during the credit crisis.
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