Trailing Spouses In Expatriate Assignments Get No Respect

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Posted in Employee Relations | 6 Comments »

As a person who has lived and worked abroad on an expatriate assignment, I can attest to the fact that companies general do a very poor job of keeping an employee whole when comparing what they had when they left ...

Top Five Reasons Employees Hate HR

Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Posted in General HR | 4 Comments »

For those of us that work in HR, it's fairly well known that most employees feel a general sense of unease when HR is mentioned, but many downright hate HR.  When I first started to work, I really resented this ...

Promoting the Wrong People

Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in Management | 2 Comments »

Have you ever seen a seemingly terrible employee get promoted? You know the types, the grouch that nobody likes, the whiner, the laze-about, the incompetent clutz, the bully, and so on. Everyone is shocked when they hear the ...

ERP Systems and HRIS Done Right

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in HRIS | 3 Comments »

I have seen a troubling development, not recent but definitely increasing in nature, in the way companies use the HRIS module, or any other module for that matter, of their ERP system. The problem, as I see it, is ...