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Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – December 16 thru December 22, 2012

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  In case you missed this week’s articles, here is a summary: Dec 16 - Blog Soup – From the Archives of Make HR Happen  – This is a re-posting of five previous articles from Make HR Happen. – more –           Dec 17 - The Discrimination That Nobody Challenges – If you know me or have read any of my blog posts you probably are aware that I am a baby boomer citizen… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – December 16 thru December 22, 2012

Oooh Look! A Squirrel!

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At the end of a work day, I often look back and wonder where the time went. I used to teach time management and most of the time it seems that I can’t manage my own calendar anymore. It could be tempting to suggest that we would probably like to be paid for how hard we “work” rather than how much meaningful output is produced. While working hard is a strong and desirable personal characteristic,… Read More »Oooh Look! A Squirrel!

Feedback as the Universal Answer

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Like most human analogies borrowed from science or mechanics, we know that input into any process can be improved by measuring the results of our efforts. Monitoring a mechanical device requires all sorts of feedback mechanisms to keep it under control. Even automated devices use feedback to control future activity. The classic definition of feedback is a return of the status of the output of a system as it relates back to the input. The… Read More »Feedback as the Universal Answer

The Discrimination That Nobody Challenges

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                          If you know me or have read any of my blog posts, you probably are aware that I am a baby boomer citizen with a low threshold of tolerance for age discrimination. I have a reputation for challenging people who think that assigning an intelligence factor to generational differences is anything other than a myth. In polite company, most people agree with… Read More »The Discrimination That Nobody Challenges

Fixing Disloyalty

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Sometimes it is convenient to just react to a feeling rather than to do in-depth research. Within any company there will be day-to-day occurrences that will in isolation seem like a trend. We all know the danger of taking anecdotal evidence to represent a truth when in fact it is really looking at a symptom rather than the disease. Much has been said pro and con regarding employee engagement or the lack of it. One… Read More »Fixing Disloyalty