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The Art of the Layoff: Wanna Hire Good – Better Fire Good The way you handle the layoff is a recruiting strategy
It seems to be happening everywhere – jobs disappearing and current employees squeezed to do more. Even when companies announce layoffs, most know they will need to hire sometime in the future, often for different kinds of positions. An… Read more
Termination with Dignity
If you lay off one or more staff members, what impact will that have on those who remain? Will productivity—and the bottom line—suffer? Are you likely to lose your best people who will worry about their positions? Or will morale increase… Read more
A Job Hunter’s Dilemma
While having lunch recently in Bryant Park, mid-town Manhattan, I overheard two women discussing their career objectives. In the course of their conversation one of them was lamenting over not hearing back from Human Resources regarding a job for… Read more
The HR Network Overview
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Organizations Are Hiring: Be Smart and Brave — Please Hire My Family
By Kate Wendleton I’m so lucky. My family would never be considered activists, but they have always been blind to race, color, religion, sexual orientation and whatever else there is. I rarely even notice hair color or height! Yes, there was… Read more
Five O’Clock Club Coaches at Work in the Workplace: Helping Organizations Optimize and Retain Top Talent (Part I)
by David Madison, Ph.D., Director, The National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches This is the first in a series of three articles on the broad topic of executive coaching and leadership development, based on interviews with senior Five… Read more
The HR Network – You can be a part of it !
The HR NETWORK – You can be part of it (in person or via video)! The HR Network Overview Listing of all Prior HR Network Topics and Speakers Articles about Topics Covered in the Past What Is the HR Network, and Why Does It Offer Breakfast… Read more
New Obama Workplace Laws and Enforcements
by David Madison, Ph.D., Director, The Five O’Clock Club National Guild of Career Coaches If you want to know how history will judge contemporary people and events, you’ll probably have to stick around for a few decades. Even so, we have a… Read more
A Lesson in Becoming a Moral Compass
My interview with this man was an eye opener. He was completely honest. He referred to the crime 25 years ago as a mistake of his youth. He said that, if he had not taken the other man’s life, he would himself have died that day. It was chilling. He… Read more
Human Resources and How to Let People Go
by David Madison, Ph.D., Director, The Five O’Clock Club National Guild of Career Coaches The Accountability of HR Outside the world of Donald Trump, the actual words, “You’re fired,” are probably seldom uttered in the workplace. There… Read more
What Employers Need To Know About Mental Health
by Vera Oziransky, Advocacy Associate, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), NYC-Metro Mental health was recently ranked as having the greatest impact on productivity and absenteeism by employers in a report published by Employer Benefit… Read more
HR Speaks Out about Best Termination Practices
“There is nothing worse than being escorted from your place off work, a place where you have come day after day and given your time and your blood. You missed your kid’s soccer games to be there, and now they are saying to you, ‘You are so… Read more
Understanding Organizational Culture
by Anita Attridge Five O’Clock Club Career Coach Joining a new company can be like moving to a foreign country. You will encounter new customs, dress, language, ideas and rules, and you will need to learn about all of these in order to do… Read more
(1) HR Metrics; Helping HR to Have an Impact on the Bottom Line (2)The job search ‘buddy system.’
by David Madison, Ph.D., Director, The National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches A wise boss once said, “The thing I worry about the most is my elevator assets.” What he meant by this was his employees: “When they leave at night,… Read more
Outsourcing Human Resources Functions: The Challenge and Opportunity for HR Professionals
by David Madison, Ph.D., Director, The National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches Once upon a time Tom Sawyer managed to evade one of his chores—whitewashing a fence—by using a little psychology with his friends. In his case, he… Read more
Supreme Court Rulings on Race and Retribution: Implications for the Workplace
by Peter Hillman with David Madison, Ph.D. The following article is based on Mr. Hillman’s address to the Employment Roundtable. For a description of this organization, its mission statement and roster of membership, see the end of this… Read more
Upgrading Your Job to “Business Partner”
By: David Madison, PhD, Guild Director The following article is based on a panel presentation at the June 9, 2003 meeting of the ‘HR Network’ at the Marsh headquarters in Manhattan. The network is co-sponsored by Marsh and the Five O’Clock Club,… Read more
Restrictive Covenants
By: David Madison, PhD, Guild Director This article is based on a presentation at the first meeting of The HR Network on January 31, 2003, in New York City, co-sponsored by the Five O’Clock Club and Marsh. At this first meeting a ‘dream team’… Read more
Making Full Use of the Maturing Workforce
By: Marian Stoltz-Loike, PhD With David Madison, PhD I n the decades following World War II, the nation experienced one of the greatest population explosions in U.S. history. There are 76 million ‘baby boomers,’ i.e., people born between 1945… Read more
How to Have Engaged Employees
-by Richard Bayer, Ph.D. Any good manager wants to have employees who desire to participate constructively in the mission of the department and overall organization. On the other hand, feelings of alienation harm the organization and can… Read more
Rethinking Office Security in the Wake of 9/11
by Gayle George of The Employment Roundtable with David Madison, PhD Gayle George is Director of Human Resources at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, a major law firm (over 1000 employees) located at One New York Plaza in lower… Read more
GET A LIFE!!! Five O’Clock Clubbers Tell How They Balance Their Lives
by Mary Harmon In Targeting The Job You Want, one section is titled “Having A Balanced Life.” It emphasizes the importance of life planning and urges readers to set goals for all areas of their lives. “I included this section because balance is… Read more
Coping with Success: Managing Energy Gone Awry
by Marilyn Puder-York, PhD As a clinical psychologist who counsels successful executives, I regularly encounter clients whom I call “high energy.” These people are stars: Exceptionally bright and creative, they are most often leaders, heads of… Read more
Reaching Out: Avoiding Stereotypes and Valuing Diversity
by Tara Stevens Several months ago, at the 25th annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists, I was invited to participate as a white woman in a panel discussion entitled “Do We Really Want to Know? Race, Gender & Culture… Read more
Companies Need Employees Who Care; Employees Need More Respect
by Kate Wendleton These days, things are not as friendly as they could be in Corporate America. Profitable companies are still laying off employees en masse. Employees who remain are faced with heavier workloads. A few companies are helping… Read more
Work-Life Balance: Keeping the Workplace Flexible
by Michael Wheeler What do you do when your company offers you an incredible promotion, but it means more hours and travel away from home? Do you take it? What if you have a husband or wife, and two kids at home? At one time, not too long ago, just… Read more
Competitive Advantage In Our Nation’s Workforce–Companies Find That Valuing Diversity Enhances Productivity
By Michael L Wheeler “Whereas the strength of many of the nation’s competitors is their homogeneity, it is America’s diversity that represents both its biggest crisis and its greatest opportunity. The question is: Can we adapt our old ways of… Read more
Firing with Compassion — and Compensation — Outplacement is Even More Necessary in Today’s Workplace
by Kate Wendleton The firings will continue, but do they have to be so mean? When downsizing began a few decades ago, managers were advised to use a “surgical” approach when letting employees go. No warmth was shown for a person who spent twenty… Read more
Is It Ever Acceptable Behavior To Reach Out and Touch Someone?
By Ronna Archbold Broadway is reviving the 1961 musical hit How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which tracked an ambitious young man’s journey from the mailroom to the executive suite. The producers concede that they had to do some… Read more
Toward A New Employer-Employee Partnership Organizations Need to Value All Employees
By Michael Wheeler, Research Associate Human Resources/ Organizational Effectiveness The Conference Board Employers expect loyalty and commitment from employees, but employees no longer expect the same of employers. A downsized, redeployed, and… Read more