Undercover with the Boss

Wednesday, 02. 17. 2010  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Labor Productivity, Management Tips

If you haven’t seen the new CBS TV show Undercover Boss, it’s worth checking out.  Perhaps not so much for the cheesy endings (at least on the first two episodes) where outcomes are achieved for individual employees that rival Queen for a Day in terms of bathos.  What is “new” here, though, is our ability [...]

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Mintzberg on Management

Thursday, 12. 17. 2009  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Management Tips

Our board member David Creelman has written a commentary on Henry Mintzberg’s new book, Managing.  You can find David’s discussion of this book here.  Dr. Mintzberg is a professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal and a frequent contributor to publications like the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, [...]

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Sick Yet? Managing Through H1N1 Season

Tuesday, 11. 17. 2009  –  Category: Absence Management, All Blog Posts, Management Tips

As more and more of our friends and neighbors are experiencing the effects of the H1N1 virus, we thought we’d weigh in with some tips of our own.
As the flu season has unfolded, we’ve been receiving a variety of questions from our customers related to H1N1.  Because we sell data collection devices (time clocks) through [...]

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Announcing Kronos Retail Labor Index

Tuesday, 09. 8. 2009  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Customer Satisfaction, Labor Market, Management Tips, Meaning of Work, Work Life Balance

The following guest blog post from Robert Yerex, chief economist at Kronos, introduces the Kronos Retail Labor Index being announced today:
The most interesting part of my job as chief economist at Kronos is working with the huge data sets made available through our hiring system. Based on application and hiring records from 69 of our [...]

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Get Sick? You’re On Your Own

Friday, 03. 6. 2009  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, Management Tips

Check out this discouraging news from a recent Hewitt survey, The Road Ahead: Emerging Health Trends 2009.  Nineteen percent of 343 Benefits executives they surveyed are planning to stop offering health benefits over the next three to five years, nearly five times as many as the 4% that said they were planning an exit strategy [...]

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