JOBS SEARCH TIPS

Sacking the most productive employees

A story straight from Ripley's Believe it or Not.

In a new twist in corporate downsizing, national electronics retail giant Circuit
City has announced that it's firing its top 3,400 sales people. Why?
Because they are making too much money:

Circuit City is replacing them with sales men willing to work at lower salaries.

Doesnt this remind you of the adage cutting your nose to spite your face?


BostonWorks Hiring Hub: The HR Blog

JOB EMBEDDEDNESS

People begin to feel this sense of community, or "job embeddedness," when their work matches their personality--for instance, a creative person who has outlets to express him- or herself.


It also happens when people feel a sense of interdependence with their co-workers or within their communities, such as a recognition that other people may not be able to get their jobs done if you don't do yours.

Or when that person in the office who has accumulated eight weeks of vacation doesn't take it all because they feel they'd cause too much disruption.

What makes employees Loyal:

How to communicate directives so that workers follow them.

Management gurus agree that employees are most likely to get on board when they are involved in the decision-making process.

In the many cases when that's not possible, the next-best thing is to make employees feel as if they were involved, consultants say.

That means telling workers not only what was decided, but why and how, says Phillip G. Clampitt, a consultant and communications professor at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.

How Understanding the 'Why Behind Bosses' Decision Matters

Google’s Buses Help Its Workers Beat the Rush - New York Times:

"The company now ferries about 1,200 employees to and from Google daily — nearly one-fourth of its local work force — aboard 32 shuttle buses equipped with comfortable leather seats and wireless Internet access.

Bicycles are allowed on exterior racks, and dogs on forward seats, or on their owners’ laps if the buses run full.

Riders can sign up to receive alerts on their computers and cellphones when buses run late.

They also get to burnish their green credentials, not just for ditching their cars, but because all Google shuttles run on biodiesel."

Engaging Your Company’s Next Generation of Leaders

To effectively train a new generation of leadership, you must engage employees in the process.

Engagement provides employees with the opportunity to be heard and provide feedback, and encourages them to make the intellectual and emotional down-payment as future leaders.

And engagement doesn’t just happen once.

Employees need to be engaged in the future of the company at every opportunity in order to build and maintain organizational strength and instill a sense of pride, productivity and fulfillment.


Engaging Your Company’s Next Generation of Leaders - Perspectives - Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick:

Employees, companies split on career growth

There is a disconnect between the career-development programs employers offer and the kinds of career development that employees want.

This is according to a global survey of nearly 1,000 executives and managers reported on the Society for Human Resource Management's Web site.



Human resources in brief IndyStar.com

Employees are a business's cheapest asset.

Great article which argues that in the private sector employees are not an organisations greatest asset. In fact it is the cheapest.

It also argues that if HR continues to propagate that employees are an organisations greatest asset, it is never going to be taken seriously and will not be able to exert influence on those in power.