People rarely leave their jobs unannounced. They may not use words, but in one way or another, they typically signal their intention to leave. Watch for these key...
With the rise of the gig economy, some of your employees may have started a side hustle to bring in extra income. If an employee’s second job leads to working long...
Managers and leaders become empowered by interrupting and redirecting complaints into powerful, actionable, requests. In this article we are going to share a couple of...
It’s likely that the Starbucks incidents reveal some form of discriminatory animus on the part of individual employees. But from a management and HR perspective, there...
Sometimes an employee discovers she may have a disability, or that it’s time to disclose one she had been keeping secret. How the employer responds to that information...
Do you routinely include an arbitration agreement in your employment applications? It’s a good idea to keep copies of both, in case the employee later claims she...
Media richness theory, introduced by Richard L. Daft and Robert H. Lengel in 1986, holds that some methods of communication reproduce information much more effectively...
Those giant thunderstorms, which hit the East Coast Tuesday night, grounded IRS rep Anita Bartels’ flight from Orlando. So Pete Isberg, VP of Government Relations at...
Last month we reported that former University of Minnesota – Duluth women’s hockey coach Shannon Miller had finally prevailed in a years-long sex discrimination...
Leaders are often telling me they wish they were more innovative. More often though, they tell me they wish their teams were more innovative. Both of these...
The National Labor Relations Board is considering enacting a rule to address the standard for determining joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act.
Retail giant Target has agreed to pay $3.9 million to settle a long-running discrimination suit alleging its policy of not hiring people with criminal convictions...
Have you ever considered: “Who generates TEAM?” Many of us give the power to create team to forces outside of ourselves. We blame circumstances or “the system”...
If you are in the habit of hiring workers who lack proper work authorization, beware! Employers have become one of the federal government’s key targets in the effort...
While small talk can be a good way to connect with your employees, when you need to get stuff done, it is often tough to get away from drop-in visitors. Try these steps...
There are now more employees who are millennials and Generation Z-ers than baby boomers—and using paycards can be an effective strategy for recruiting them, according...
Sometimes, it makes a lot of sense to build a virtual wall between HR staff who handle discrimination complaints and manage litigation and those who review applications...
