The historically high unemployment level gets discussed often in the media lately, but an under-the-radar trend is that voluntary employee turnover is currently at a three-year high, according to the Department of Labor. Clearly, even with continued rounds of layoffs at some of the best-known companies and a weak hiring outlook, greener pastures are luring [...]
A snippet of a boss putting the screws to an employee in the employee improvement film Painless Performance Improvement. Like it? Buy it here: www.media-partners.com Employee Performance Corporate Training Video
One of the hallmarks of a harmonious and productive workplace culture is little to no litigation initiated against a company by current or former employees. Winning Workplaces looks at this as part of a larger question about government, civil, or criminal complaints in our annual Top Small Company Workplaces competition. In 2011, only 2% of [...]
Business owners attribute competitive advantage to their business model, value proposition, innovation, as well as the "smarts" I mentioned in this post on Patrick Lencioni’s session (among others) at our conference last month with Inc. Magazine. But as a new special report by Workforce Management makes clear, employee engagement is just as much a driver [...]
As Newswise reported two weeks ago, a University of Iowa study found that a good portion of the $134 billion that businesses spend annually on employee development strategies "could be wasted if companies don’t assure their employees that they have a promising career with the company." That’s a huge chunk of change – savings that struggling [...]
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