Do You Know the Quality of Your Widgets But Not Your Recruits?
Go ahead, be a picky recruiter. It’s a buyer’s market for most jobs these days so your company can afford to bide its time and hire the right person. But here’s the rub: It’s unlikely that, once you’ve made your new hires, you’ll honestly be able to tell how good...
The Greening of Executive Pay
There’s a new metric in town when it comes to determining executive pay – at some companies at least. Now, in addition to earnings per share and stock prices, some executives are earning incentive pay based on a series of sustainability measures. The trend is a bit more common in Europe...
Why Muslim Employees Aren’t Participating in Your Company’s 401(k)
When it comes to news about American Muslims in the workplace, the focus is often centered on issues of discrimination, harassment, or misunderstandings related to Muslims’ religious beliefs and practices. Very little seems to be written about how to create an environment of inclusion beyond...
Social Media Goes to Work
With Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media technologies virtually omnipresent lately, it's not surprising that many managers are wondering how to leverage these tools. Sales and marketing were the first to exploit these technologies, which present new ways of reaching customers. But the...
Hanging on to Health Insurance (for now)
i4cp member Fidelity Investments, a leading provider of employer benefits, announced this week that a survey it conducted in June found that most U.S. employers (84%) "…expect to revisit their health care benefit strategy this year, following the passage of health care reform legislation."...
Capitalizing on the Knowledge you Already Own: A Roundtable Discussion
As companies emerge in this "post-recession" environment, the issue weighing most heavily is how to maintain legacy company information and intellectual property as employees retire or move on to new jobs. Attend this roundtable to hear from customers and industry experts on how you can protect...
Getting the Most Out of International Assignments
Yes, we're still on a global economic roller coaster (who said the world is flat?), with good and bad news from the U.S., Europe and Asia causing markets to shoot up and down weekly or even daily. But, at the end of the ride, it still looks like we'll all be doing much more rather than less global...
We Need to Talk
We need to talk. Can there be any more gut-tightening phrase in our language? Just ask anyone who’s married. Or in any sort of relationship, personal or professional. Any employee summoned to his supervisor’s office with that phrase probably shows up simply because there’s no handy...
i4cp Launches First Market Research Panel Dedicated to High-Performance Organizations
The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) announced today that it has officially launched WorkforceSurveys.com, the first market research panel dedicated to the best and next human capital practices of high-performance organizations. Human capital and HR professionals are invited to join the...
People & Strategy Call for Articles
i4cp is partnering with the newly rebranded HRPS for a special edition of their acclaimed People & Strategy quarterly journal. To make this a truly impactful issue, we are tapping our best resources - our vibrant practitioner network - for article submissions. Mark Vickers, i4cp's VP of Research,...
