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A disgraced human resource leader and his wife tell their story about falling into crime, struggling for redemption and learning valuable lessons through it all.

Anecdotal evidence seems to indicate that employees are increasingly reacting to their layoffs and terminations with varying degrees of revenge. HR leaders need to create processes and procedures that minimize that risk.

Differentiating and strategically balancing the effectiveness and efficiency of work activities can be difficult for many organizations -- often because leaders lack a framework with which to analyze the way various activities affect the value proposition to customers. Here are some best practices HR executives can use to help their organizations find efficiencies without jeopardizing strategic differentiation.

Whether they're downsizing, growing or toeing the line, employers are scrutinizing job candidates more closely than ever to ensure they're getting the right fit for the long haul.

It's been a tough year for benefits brokers, who've had to generate profits in a universe of declining revenues. Nevertheless, their services are in demand as clients prepare for regulatory changes and new ways to deliver healthcare. The story features accompanying lists of this year's top benefits brokers for healthcare, disability, retirement and voluntary benefits.

While the concept of providing injured workers access to the best doctors is not new to workers' comp, the ability to systematically identify, measure and engage those providers is reaching new heights with several programs recently introduced to the market. The new, doctor-centered model for treating workers' comp patients is challenging the traditional managed-care PPO giants.

The trick to selling talent management to line leaders is to think like a doctor. If you can find their business pains and offer talent management as the solution to those problems, there will be no need to "sell" at all.

The recession hasn't caused most companies with in-house executive-search operations to abandon them. In fact, it's having the opposite effect.

With increased scrutiny over senior-leadership decisions, human resource executives must ensure the processes used to evaluate and develop leadership performance provide clear feedback and guidance on the skills that matter for the future of the organization. A recent study concludes that two distinct sets of leadership skills were most strongly associated with profitability and revenue growth -- inspirational leadership and responsible leadership.

The nation's most powerful employment attorneys for 2009, presented exclusively by HRE, tell you what they see on the horizon from the Obama administration, and what you need to do.

Learn how a televised singing contest helped Cisco Systems Inc. engage its worldwide workforce on ethics training, and have a little fun to boot.

Employees -- and employers -- are feeling the pinch from shortfalls in retirement funding. Defined-contribution plans place too much burden on the individual; private-sector defined-benefit plans place too much burden on the employer; and public-sector pensions shift the burden to the taxpayers, threatening to bankrupt local economies. The time may be ripe for new retirement-system designs.

In light of the stock-market meltdown, HR leaders are turning to new products and tools designed to strengthen defined-contribution plans.

Employees who are taking antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs often don't receive the help they need.

Being a layoff survivor can be more stressful than being laid off. Initially happy just to have a job, employee attitudes soon reflect the stress of overwork, as they need to pick up the slack left by their former co-workers. Here are some ways to engage and de-stress the survivors.