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HR News Analysis

Putting Comp on the Fast Track

With the Bush tax cuts set to expire -- and no clear decision on what Congress will decide to do about it -- some employees are wondering if their organizations will consider paying some bonuses and other comp in 2010 instead of next year under higher tax rates. Employers are just beginning to analyze their options. MORE

How Rude!

Research suggests that rudeness at the workplace can be detrimental to productivity and teamwork, and can even be dangerous sometimes. HR needs to create a better corporate culture -- which often means starting at the top -- as well as offer training on business etiquette and tips on controlling stress. MORE

Penalties Expand in Proposed OSHA Legislation

Business leaders are lobbying against a bill that may see HR leaders -- and other directors and officers -- found criminally liable for "knowing" about workplace-safety violations. A vote in the House of Representatives is expected to take place soon on the legislation, which also makes some OSHA violations felonies and increases potential jail time. MORE

Federal Employees Largely Satisfied with Jobs

Nearly all federal employees thought their work was important and liked their jobs. The only glaring complaint was about promotions -- a problem tied to the rigid General Schedule career-ladder system that ties pay to tenure. The government is being challenged to improve its performance management so employees see the link between merit, pay and promotion. MORE

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Building a Process that Includes Assessments

By Paul Connolly

Many managers don't understand assessments are just one piece of the hiring process. Contributing to the challenge of using assessments is the fact that there are thousands of instruments -- and some of them are of questionable value at best. MORE

Reading Oracle's Tea Leaves

By Bill Kutik

The 800-lb. gorilla of HR technology sits where it wants to, talks when it wants to and, certainly, only to whom it wants to. While its five-year-old map to Fusion is getting a little less blurry, no one who is actually in the know has indicated its final destination. We may be hearing one soon. MORE

Features

Taking Them Seriously

By Julie Cook Ramirez

Internships are playing an increasingly important role in the careers of HR professionals, as many human resource organizations have come to view internships as a means of filling the HR pipeline. No longer merely a public-relations ploy or a means of providing executives' kids something to do over the summer, internships have taken on new meaning, particularly for the HR function. MORE

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Powered from Within

By Kristen B. Frasch

HRE announces an impressive slate of winners in its 2010 HR's Rising Stars competition. This year's HR's Rising Stars already exhibit the kind of strategic leadership, forward thinking and analytical capabilities that many CHROs possess -- and suggest the pool of top HR talent is still being fed, nurtured and recognized for their accomplishments. MORE

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Engaging Individual Employees

By Art Miller

HR leaders too often rely on group research that falsely assumes people share common qualities that are governed by certain discoverable principles. But to ensure employees are well suited to their jobs, fully engaged and highly productive, HR leaders need to instead focus on workers as individuals. Here are some thoughts -- and some suggested assessment questions -- that will help HR to do a better job of making sure there is good fit between employees and their work. MORE

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Columnists (Online Exclusive)

HR Technology
By Bill Kutik
Reading Oracle's Tea Leaves

Bill Kutik's Past Columns

Talent Management
By Peter Cappelli
Does Online Instruction Work?

Studies that look at the effectiveness of online training, compared to classroom-based learning, offer some conflicting results. Online training seems to be more effective for older, motivated students, while the classroom works best for younger low-achievers. There are some lessons HR leaders can take away from the findings. MORE

Peter Cappelli's Past Columns

HR Leadership
By Susan R. Meisinger
Time for Action

Talent-management programs require hiring managers and HR leaders to focus on skills and abilities, and ignore the irrelevant. That's why bias -- for whatever reason -- ultimately harms a company's bottom line as the most-qualified candidates are ignored in favor of nonproductive reasons. MORE

Susan R. Meisinger's Past Columns

Benefits
By Carol Harnett
Feeling Good About Retirement?

A lot has changed in the past 25 years when it comes to company-sponsored retirement programs. In this column, Harnett explores the roots of the current shift from defined-benefit to defined-contribution plans, and notes that innovation in core retirement design is at an ebb point right now.MORE

Carol Harnett's Past Columns

Legal Clinic

By Keisha-Ann G. Gray

Working it Out

Employers can require all workers to participate in daily group exercise, but companies should be wary of only placing such a mandate on only some employees, such as smokers or those who are overweight. The column this month also deals with the rights of organizations to search employee lockers. MORE

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