Earlier this week, Brian Kibby shared a truth that will be hard for many managers to swallow: they are chasing their best workers away. "People leave their manager and not their company," he wrote, adding, "I cannot think of one instance where this hypothesis was wrong." Managers who lose top...
Leigh Steere recently reviewed "Everything's a Project" by Ben Snyder and introduced one of the book's core concepts: Employee engagement is a three-legged stool. I've written plenty about employee engagement -- especially as it pertains to efficiency and productivity -- and like Steere, I'd previously focused mostly on management and...
Some 21 million Americans will quit their jobs in the next 12 months, which will cost employers over $2 billion. These are just some of the chilling statistics Cornerstone On Demand and Harris Interactive uncovered in their Employee Performance Management survey. Of the 1,143 employed survey respondents, only 37...
Yesterday, I shared compensation-centric highlights from this week's #HRBookChat Twitter book chat, which featured Daniel Pink; today's follow-up post focuses on Pink's tips to institute a results-only work environment. A ROWE office initiative, as the name indicates, focuses on results rather than a place or a time. Such an environment...
On Monday night, "Drive" author Daniel Pink participated in the #HRBookChat Twitter chat; his insights on employee compensation and engagement were especially apt. The one-hour chat produced too much excellent information to distill in a single post; look for a follow-up post with Part 2 of the chat. Update: Read...
This Mercer infographic reveals that managers and employees have distinct perspectives on how their organization fosters and incentivizes productivity and engagement. Mercer asked 2,400 U.S. employees about their organization's setup, and rank-and-file employees were far more skeptical of their job than managers and senior managers were -- a...
