Communicate? We’ve Already Done That!Last week I conducted Employee Focus Groups for a client and the number one issue raised by the 80 Employees in the Focus Groups was the lack of ongoing communication with management. While the ...READ»
April 1, 2008: Protesting job cuts, French union workers held four bosses hostage for more than 24 hours at a Caterpillar plant. Last week, workers at a French 3M plant held the company boss hostage for two days, and earlier this ...READ»
OMG I! The national unemployment rate was 8.1 percent in February, up from 7.6 percent in January and from 4.8 percent last year http://www.bls.gov/mls. OMG II! Discrimination charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity ...READ»
The Employee Free Choice Act was introduced in the House and Senate on March 10. The top priority of organized labor, the bill would force Companies to recognize a union when a majority of Employees sign authorization cards. Under ...READ»
Just when I think Companies are truly – if reluctantly – giving up Command & Control Management, along comes “the Great Recession” and Command & Control once again rears its ugly and destructive head! But ...READ»
Remember the “good old days” before the current recession? The “good old days” when operations were short handed all the time? When the replacements HR could find were not a “fit”, but supervisors and ...READ»
Even though there was some positive response to my recommendation to institute pay reductions rather than additional layoffs, there was substantially more negative response to the idea. Since the economic ...READ»
Corporate Prima Donna: a manager/executive who is arrogant, difficult to work with, not a team player, manipulative, privileged, demanding, unreasonable, and with a high opinion of themselves not shared by others.
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As the earth continues to move under our feet and the economy remains in free fall, with no bottom in sight, the leaders of every company must decide how they are going to react to an economic meltdown that happened to fast, ...READ»
Last week I conducted a Leadership Workshop for nineteen Front Line Leaders (progressive companies continue to believe it is essential in this bad economy to develop their Front Line Leaders because training & development ...READ»
