Human Resources 101

Strip away the logos, offices, and ad campaigns: an organization is nothing more than a tapestry of interwoven commitments. Great organizations are those where promises mean something; where people can rely on one another, where trust isn’t an amorphous, remote ideal but the very fabric binding all disparate members of the organization no matter how [...]

Guy Browning offers 20 top tips for surviving life in the workplace Guy Browning offers 20 top tips for surviving life in the workplace. Number 6 is great.
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What differentiates a business thought from a normal thought is that business thoughts have a “going forward” at the end of [...]

More than a million Canadian workers, or about 1 in 12, are dissatisfied with their jobs, a Statscan survey released Tuesday suggests – and that dissatisfaction leads to stress and depression, researchers warn.
The 2002 Canadian Community Health Survey, which focused on mental health and well-being, said just over six per cent of workers were “not [...]

About 20 years ago I watched a series of videos outlining the concept of telecommuting. I believe the material was based on studies from the University of Western Ontario. The bold claim of the study was, by the turn of the millennium most white-collar workers would be working from home.
An article published at InfoWorld shows [...]

Here’s a little something I posted on my personal blog:
I remember a supervisor at one of my first jobs picking up on a number of silly mistakes I had made and saying, “I don’t think it’s that you’re careless, I think you couldn’t care less.” She was right. There were a dozen things grabbing [...]

Human resource executives say that diversity in the workplace can have a number of benefits, including improved understanding of the marketplace, enhanced creativity and problem-solving ability in teams, and better use of talent. But social science research is mixed on whether diversity does indeed have a positive effect on work-group performance or not. So what’s [...]

Totally Off The Record is the place for telling anonymous work stories.
It’s a virtual water cooler where people doing the same jobs as you come to share, and share in, the Outrageous, Too Funny, Embarrassing and Feel Good stories (and for some jobs Celebrities) that happen to us all while at work.
We’ve all had things [...]

In the average workplace, there are lots of meetings. Reports indicate that the average number of meetings at work more than doubled in the second half of the 20th Century and time spent in meetings keeps growing. While the importance of this change has been largely unnoticed, a new study on the effects of meetings [...]

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Insights Into Successfully Leveraging the Four Generations in Today’s Workforce
Think about your workforce. If you have employees ranging in age from 25 to 60, you have four distinct populations to consider. Each has different–some would say conflicting–motivations, approaches to work, career goals, and work styles. Does your environment leverage the differences [...]

I’ve posted a number of these suggestions around before. Now they have a point value. The object is to try and carry out enough of these gags to earn 15 points in a day. There are no prizes, just the satisfaction of a job well done.
One-Point Gags ——————————

Ignore the first five people who say ‘good [...]