Most companies allow their employees to bring their own smartphones and even their tablets to the office. But does that mean you can--and should--use them whenever you like? Obviously, each office should have its own policy for appropriate use, but there are several simple rules that all users should follow.Mobile devices should be used with [...]
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Most everyone dreads dealing with performance appraisals. Let's be honest: performance reviews are a pain in the you-know-what. Employees don't like them and HR aren't fans either--45 percent of HR leaders didn't think reviews were good gauges of a worker's performance, compared to last year's 39 percent, according to a poll by the Society of [...]
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Lots of companies are adding an executive-level position of culture chief. Seems like a good idea, right? NOT SO! When done right, a culture exec can be a powerful role to marshal resources, but it runs a HUGE risk of communicating a top-down approach to culture--and that's not the way to go. What works better? [...]
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February 15, 2013
