Entries Categorized as 'Workforce Management'

Attract + Engage + Develop + Recognize = Retain

Date June 5, 2008

I recently read an article in Workforce Management entitled Top Tips for Keeping Your Top Talent in Place. The article stated that compensation alone is no longer enough to retain top employees. “It’s standard practice for employees to receive benefits, paid vacations and matches to their 401k plan; but now they’re looking for something different—something […]

Music in the Workplace: Friend or Foe?

Date April 25, 2008

“Nearly one-third of U.S. employees work while listening to music via an iPod, MP3 player, or similar personal music device,” according to a 2006 poll conducted by Harris Interactive for Spherion.
Why is this important? According to a recent article in HR Magazine entitled, “Working to the Beat,” many companies are incorporating music into their recruiting […]

Do You Know Who Your ‘A’ Players Are?

Date March 19, 2008

Despite the war for talent and the estimated gap in the workforce in the coming years many companies, instead of sourcing new candidates of out desperation, are taking on a new approach to ensuring top talent or “A” players are recruited and developed within their organization . According to Brad Smart in Workforce Magazine and […]