Personnel Journal

Most employers want to do the right thing when it comes to cultivating a diverse work force.For many companies, however, the road to diversity isn't well travelled. Although many riuman resources managers have been walking down the path first paved by...

A KENTUCKY HOSPITAL ENCOURAGE'S ITS STAFF to daydream about faraway islands and relaxing beaches -- during work hours --as part of an employee referral program.Because the hospital needed 200 nurses last year during a difficult staffing season -- January-April...

For years, human resources professionals have been saying that they're capable of doing more than just shuffling papers. But now that they are being given the opportuniry to be bottom-line-oriented corporate strategists, how many human resources managers...

CHRONIC DISABLING ILLNESS ACCOUNTS for the majority of health care expenditures in the U.S., yet how many human resources managers can identify the factors that affect workplace disability?Researchers at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business...

Q How, do I (the HR manager) train line managers to turn around poor performers in their departments? My managers keep getting themselves into trouble.A This age-old question is timely and critical to move an organization (in this case your company)...

General Electric's CEO, Jack Welch, began to transform the company in 1981 to meet his goal to make GE number one or two in every arena in which it competed. Welch believed that the need for the company to be more flexible, innovative and entrepreneurial...

WHEN A COMPANY'S POLICY STATES, "Our compensation philosophy is to pay for performance," does this guarantee that managers will implement it flawlessly and employees will accept it happily? The Peoples Natural Gas Co., a regulated utility based in Pittsburgh,...