Each week, I contribute dozens of career articles to a variety of Web properties. Here are some of my favorite posts from this week. * Boost Employee Morale With On-the-Job Training [infographic] [PayScale] * Should Managers Track Organizational Influence in Employee Evaluations? [PayScale] * The Student Employment Gap: Inside the Youth Job Market...
I've written before about how employers can incentivize healthy employee habits, but a feature in the Wall Street Journal introduces a new twist on this phenomenon: gamification. A recent Towers Watson and National Business Group on Health study revealed that some 60 percent of employers plan on using competitions and...
Ineffective leadership costs the average business the equivalent of 7 percent of its annual sales, according to recent figures from the Ken Blanchard Companies. For a startup with $1 million in sales, that's $70,000 lost, all due to poor management. Ineffective leaders make it hard for organizations to retain...
A whopping 71 percent of U.S. workers are either "actively disengaged" or "not engaged" in their workplaces, a stat that poses a real threat to organizational efficiency. Gallup found that worker engagement has direct ties to productivity, retention, profit, customer service and other performance outcomes, making it more essential...
Employees' health and weight problems cost U.S. business owners $153 billion each year in lost productivity costs, making it more essential than ever for managers to incentivize healthy employee habits. Over 85 percent of American workers have weight problems, health problems or both, and they miss 450 million extra...
