Work Life
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The Shift to Engagement
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I was reading a post on 2010 (originally attributed to Joyce Gioia, but without a link). ((Quick note to my fellow bloggers, Even though I don’t always link, I do almost always footnote. It’s a pain, but we live in…
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Engagement Overkill?
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No pun intended. But I’m troubled and I don’t get it. This morning the acting CFO over at Freddie Mac committed suicide. He was brought in after the bailout, so theoretically he should not have a ton of direct responsibility…
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The Value Proposition in a Multi-Dimensional Workforce
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Karen Beaman states that the workforce is changing: Multi-Generational – we are are now seeing up to four generations of workers working simultaneously in the workplace — Veterans, Boomers, X’ers, and New Mils — each with differing world views, work/life…
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HBR: GenX versus Baby Boomers
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We keep talking about Gen Y Milennials. They are after all the next unknown generation of workers, and they are “different.” However, we can’t ignore the Gen X’ers either. As the boomer retire, the Gen X population will be the…
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The New Collaboration
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So much collaboration used to happen around “water cooler conversations.” These may have been informal lunches, chats in the halls, and even chats next to the water cooler in the lunch room. However, as the workforce increasingly works from home…
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Generation Y Mobile Technology: The Future of Work
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I’m not usually very interested in mainstream work technologies from the standpoint of systematicHR. However, I was listening to yet another ZDnet interview with a CIO (this time with Ray Gilbert of Alcatel-Lucent) regarding the next generation of technology. “…desire…
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Plateauing, Multiple Career Ladders, Engaging Employees
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Knowledge@Wharton wrote a few months ago about a “new” phenomenon within middle manager ranks. A number of men and women in middle management are increasingly reluctant to take the next step in their careers because the corporate ladder is not…
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The Evolution of the Workforce
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It seems I make a point of talking about the millennial generation (those emerging into the workforce now), and how there seems to be a perception that they are less motivated than prior generations. It’s probably true that they were…
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Employee Morale and Uncertainty
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The other day I was visiting a client site and was struck by how recent financial difficulties experienced by the client had impacted the workforce. As part of my job, I had to interview personnel at different levels, and as…
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Sleep, Work-Life and Performance
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Many of us who read systematicHR are in the same situation. We’re good at what we do, we’re over-worked, we’re committed to achievement, and our employers expect us to succeed. It all boils down to one thing – most of…
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Employee Morale and Stress
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A lot has been written about the connection between low employee morale and stress. In fact, Melissa Bushman even claims it to be “The most common cause of low employee morale.” On the face of it, this sounds reasonable. If I’m…
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Employee Morale and the Company Car
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Do a Google search on “employee morale” and you will get “about 1,020,000 hits”. Evidently, it’s a pretty hot topic! Actually, after I went through all the million plus hits, I found that there are actually 748,639 non-duplicative hits. Still…
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Universum Survey of New Graduate Preferences
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There’s a lot more to the Universum survey that I have time to go into or interpret including top employer brands cut into multiple categories and such. What I found most interesting was their cut on the new graduate goals…
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Employee Morale and the Boss
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The other day, I came across an interesting graph a client of mine had copied from a BusinessWeek article. I’ve been trying to find it online, to no avail. I found reference to it here, on another blog, NumericLife….
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Prosperity Growth and the Satisfaction Gap
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Your grandfather probably worked to live. Your mother and father most likely fired to make a living. Your children will be working to define a life. – Jeff Hunter, 2006 ((Hunter, Jeff. October 31, 2006. “Economics to Identity.” Retrieved from…
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How To Annoy Your Peers
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I’ve been in all sorts of situations. From the smelly guy, to the office in front of the kitchen, to sitting behind the cell phone guy. The woman who had extra butter popcorn every day at 3:30 pm was about…
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To Engage Employees, Let Them Go
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The Edelmann blog highlights a New York Times article analyzing the affect of vacation time (or lack of) on employee engagement and turnover within the younger generation of workers (not quite phrased that way of course). Many young people in…
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EE’s quit to seek relationships, balance and mission
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In the “talent war” discussion, there is now even more room for concern. While we have always realized that growing retiree populations were decreasing the availability of senior talent, the development of young talent seems to be at risk as…
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Talent Part 4 – What Does Talent Want?!?
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Prior posts in this series Talent Part 1 – The Rules of Talent Talent Part 2 – HCI on Talent and Engagement Talent Part 2 – Talent Part 3 – Building Talent in Your Organization Yes… what do they want?…