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Mapping Global Leadership Competencies
In this ever increasing global marketplace, most multinational companies still don’t track, measure or reward global leadership competencies — and most can’t even “make the case” to link such...
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The Changing Nature of Work
Gary Kushner offered lots of data about the future nature of work so that HR leaders could begin questioning the way their organizations are designed, the composition of their total rewards and the...
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Changes to FLSA Urged Before Congress
The notion of modifying the Fair Labor Standards Act to bring it up-to-date with today’s more mobile, flexible and technology-driven workforce took a step forward last Thursday in a hearing before the...
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Burning ‘Bridges’ to Keep Vacationers Working
I didn’t realize the United States was among the world’s standard-bearers when it comes to vacation ogres until I read this story in today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Seems an...
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Rating HR’s Global Mind-set
Do HR folks have more of a global mind-set than most of their peers? Not according to just released data from the Najafi Global Mindset Institute at Thunderbird School of Global Management in...
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Building the ‘Agile Enterprise’
Delivering the keynote at the 5th annual Bersin IMPACT conference, held once again at the historic and beautifully restored Vinoy Renaissance Resort in St. Petersburg, Fla., Josh Bersin told the packed...
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Made in America
“Remember when they used to actually make things in this country?” How many of you have heard that from older relatives, or your parents? How many of you have actually said it yourselves? So now it’s...
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What Thinking Globally Might Really Mean
I liked some of the thoughts that came out of Gary Kushner’s SHRM Conference session on Monday, “The Changing Nature of Work: Five Global Trends Affecting Strategic Human Resources.” Doing global...
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Treating Workplace Stress in a Global Marketplace
Came across an interesting perspective on treating workplace stress globally. Funny how invisible those obvious things you failed to contemplate before are until they’re brought to your attention. In...
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Mobility’s 10-Year Journey
A PricewaterhouseCoopers study, the 2012 Survey of Global Mobility Policies, recently confirmed a trend experts have long been telling us: Global companies have been replacing longer-term assignments...
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Bersin Envisions a More Distributed HR Function
Josh Bersin, principal, CEO and founder at Bersin by Deloitte, delivered a content-rich, provoking opening keynote at Bersin’s Impact 2013 conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Tuesday morning. The...
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Say-on-Pay Movement Growing Globally
Momentum continues to build in the European Union to give shareholders greater powers of oversight on executive-pay practices. A release from New York-based Mercer announcing its latest perspective on...
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HR Leaders Speak Out on Global-Recruiting Challenges
Attendees at the 16th Annual HR Technology® Conference in Las Vegas got to “hear the stories from the practitioners themselves,” as moderator Gerry Crispin put it at Wednesday’s “Panel on Global Talent...
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Study: Diversity Not So Good for Creativity
After all the positive press that diversity in the workplace has been getting over the years, including here at HRE, a surprising study published in a recent issue of the Academy of Management Journal...
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Best to Shy Away from Ukraine Relocations or Trips
This report Friday from the BBC about the escalating crisis in the Ukraine certainly underscores alerts and cautions released days and weeks earlier about not doing business there right now. Though...
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Forming a Different Kind of Alliance
Trust. Loyalty. Lifetime employment. I think most of you would agree these words don’t really apply to today’s workplace. As Ben Casnocha pointed out during his keynote yesterday at the SHRM Talent...
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Doing Your Homework in the APAC Region
If there’s an underlying message in First Advantage’s latest study on background checks in the Asia Pacific region, it’s to tread carefully. I received a copy of the firm’s 2014 Background Screening...
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Taking a Multipronged Approach to Global Mobility
We’ve reported in previous stories that the use of short-term assignments continues to grow in popularity, as companies look for ways to get a bigger bang for their global-mobility buck. So it’s no...
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Compliance Efforts Not So Great Globally, Either
It wasn’t that long ago that I wrote a news analysis about the problems with ethics and compliance programs here in the United States. Experts in that piece lamented the lack of clout being given to...
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Brexit: The Human Resource Implications
Few people seemed as surprised by the results of last week’s vote for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union than the British themselves. Meanwhile, other countries in Europe are witnessing...
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