Overqualified and Underrated?
Thursday, 12. 23. 2010 – Category: All Blog Posts
Our board member, David Creelman, provided today’s guest blog post:
This article in Management Issues cites research showing overqualified workers stay as long or longer and perform better than candidates who are supposedly a better fit.
Organizations hiring hourly workers should check if their branding discourages “overqualified” workers from applying or if the selection processes screen them [...]
Podcast on Changing Workforce Demographics
Wednesday, 10. 20. 2010 – Category: All Blog Posts, Podcast
Earlier this month, I had a discussion with Workforce Institute board members David Creelman, Mark Lange and Dr. Tim Porter O’Grady about their perspectives on how changes in the age demographics of the workplace are likely to impact organizations. There have been multiple stories about this in the news lately including this recent NPR broadcast [...]
A New Frontier for Talent Management?
Wednesday, 09. 15. 2010 – Category: All Blog Posts
Today’s guest blog post is courtesy of our board member, David Creelman.
It’s been more than a decade since the ‘war for talent’ brought talent management to the attention of CEOs. There is now widespread buy-in that talent matters and HR has made great progress in introducing talent management systems and processes. So what’s next? Maybe [...]
Scheduling ‘Bottom of the Ladder’ Workers
Monday, 04. 26. 2010 – Category: All Blog Posts
Thank you to WFI board member David Creelman for the following guest blog post regarding Jody Heymann’s Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder (Harvard Business Press).
The book marshals the evidence for investing in ‘bottom of the ladder’ talent. (The fact she landed with that awkward ‘bottom of the ladder’ phrase to describe this [...]
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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