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     <title><![CDATA[Are You Leading or Lagging? Building Strategic Next Steps Into Your Survey]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[At the start of the school year, my third-grade daughter came home with a practice math test. The test is given at the end of each month and contains a range of math problems. It starts with very simple addition and ends with more elaborate addition and multiplication equations.
Initially, the test...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:10:40 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Attributed Versus Non-Attributed Surveys]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Employee survey programs can provide organizations with the unique and invaluable opportunity to link human capital metrics to survey results. This linkage may simply provide specific information about where one works in the organization and who they report to, contain more detailed demographic info...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:41:53 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Behavioral Odds]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[If you are the only one she has, make sure you are one in a million. &ndash;Irish Folk Song
Imagine, while at a charity event, you had an opportunity to buy one of 15 lottery tickets that were to be sold to 15 different individuals for $20 a ticket. Since this is a charity event, a corporate sponso...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:39:47 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Biodata: A Tried and True Means of Predicting Success]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The use of biodata, information about one&rsquo;s life experiences, as a means of predicting future performance in corporate settings has been prevalent for over a hundred years. Using knowledge of someone&rsquo;s past behavior to predict their likely future behavior certainly predates that by a lar...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:10:54 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Buy Low, Sell High or What Would You Pay for a Pearl of Wisdom?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Buy low, sell high is sage advice. However, what is low and what is high? Certainly if you look at the cost of buying shares of a company, they are lower now than they were a few months ago, but are they as low as they are going to go? What is the real value of a share of stock, an automobile, a hou...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:40:06 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Closing the Skills Gap in a Global Market]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[&quot;There is a shortage of good technology talent. It is impossible to find engineers.&rdquo; If you are in staffing, you have more than likely noticed the common themes in current industry publications.
Are these themes fact or fiction? The answer depends on your point of view, and more importan...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:26:53 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Communication Strategies to Ensure Your Employee Survey is a Success]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Once the decision has been made to conduct an employee survey, it is important for the organization to begin building momentum. A well-done employee survey will rely on participation from the members of the organization on its design, administration, participation and follow-through. Therefore, it b...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:31:51 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Competencies: Linking Assessment to Performance and Development]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Competencies have been defined in a variety of different ways by the scientific community as well as the Human Resources field. Generally speaking, most definitions of competencies required by people to succeed in the workplace include something about the capability to become good at a particular ac...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:11:23 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Computer Adaptive Testing]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In a typical ability test, groups of items are administered, and the number of items an examinee answers correctly is used to estimate his/her ability. The more items an individual answers correctly, the greater his/her ability is assumed to be. However, because everyone responds to every item, most...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:11:30 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Corporate Identity Crisis]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Susan Hendrickson&rsquo;s friends envy her. They think she goes to work every day at a great job for a wonderful company. After all, she works for an organization whose mission focuses on bringing joy to the world. Once she began her job, it became clear that although it felt good to work for a comp...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:28:10 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Creating Business Strategy: To Thine Own Business Be True]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[&quot;To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.&rdquo;&mdash;William Shakespeare
When deriving strategies and objectives for their organizations, are leaders really taking the time to think about what is right for their businesses?...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:11:46 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Creating Confidence and the Long Island Murder]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[On Long Island, in a neighborhood not all that far from NYC, there was a murder this month. In fact, it was not so much of a murder as it was an old style lynching carried out by those with a mob mentality, a gang of high school boys who took sport in torturing their fellow human beings, viewing it ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:40:49 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Creating Culturally Sensitive Behavior Change in Organizations]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Many organizations are seeking to create a &ldquo;global footprint.&rdquo; In doing so, many common business practices need to be sensitive to, and adjusted for, the impact of local culture on the implementation of such practices.
This article introduces perspectives on how to create individual and...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:32:04 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Creativity and Innovation in Organizations]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Organizations are becoming increasingly interested in creativity and innovation, in part as a response to the pressures associated with globalization, competition, economic factors and technology changes. Many organizations see creativity as an opportunity to maintain a competitive advantage and mos...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:28:53 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://kenexa.com/ResourceCenter/ThoughtLeadership/Creativity-and-Innovation-in-Organizations]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Creativity in Groups and Teams]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Most of the work on creative thought processes has focused on understanding these at the individual level (Mumford, Mobley, Uhlman, Reiter-Palmon &amp; Doares, 1991; Ward, Smith &amp; Finke, 1999). We have only limited information about how these cognitive processes operate at the team level or grou...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:29:04 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Debunking the Generational Myth]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Members of Generation X and Y (the younguns-uns) are different from you and me (the old codger-codgers).If you believe in the above statement, then you need to develop separate processes for employee recruitment and retention. Who exactly is this group of Generation X and Y? First and foremost, they...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 15:38:49 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://kenexa.com/ResourceCenter/ThoughtLeadership/Debunking-the-Generational-Myth]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Does Technology Truly Globalize Assessment Systems?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Today, we receive and transmit more information faster, cheaper, invisibly and internationally than ever. It&rsquo;s getting cheaper, faster and even more inventive, day by day. The world&rsquo;s share of and access to information individual by individual is accelerating.
Inevitably experts predict...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:45:43 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://kenexa.com/ResourceCenter/ThoughtLeadership/Does-Technology-Truly-Globalize-Assessment-Systems]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Employee Engagement is a Hot Topic: Fad or Fact? Is it Here to Stay?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Arecent article in the British business publication, Management Today, highlighted the rapid emergence of employee engagement as a hot topic in company boardrooms and sought to educate its readership on the basics of employee engagement. However, though the author was impressed by the power of emplo...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:46:11 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://kenexa.com/ResourceCenter/ThoughtLeadership/Employee-Engagement-is-a-Hot-Topic--Fad-or-Fact--I]]></link>     
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     <description><![CDATA[ACNN headline screams, &ldquo;Performance Review May Have Sparked NASA Shooting.&rdquo; In Houston, the local police were trying to determine a motive for why a NASA contractor fatally shot his boss and took another employee hostage before killing himself at the Johnson Space Center. It seems that h...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:41:19 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Finding the Synergy in Multiple Employee Projects]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Many organizations use various partners or vendors to collect data and provide services. Too often, all of this information is maintained in distinct silos where it gathers dust. If it is used at all, the scope is very narrow with limited distribution. Few associates see it, few understand it and ev...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:30:47 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Global Assessment: The Impact of Culture on Personality Measurement]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In today&rsquo;s world of business, &ldquo;globalization&rdquo; has become both a reality and a necessity. Geographical boundaries are diminishing as goods and services created in one part of the world are increasingly consumed in another, very different part of the world (Freidman, 2006). Technolog...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:12:32 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Growing Talent Through Development Centers]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[With the increasing competition for employees, organizations need to identify and hold on to their talented people more than ever before. This means it is imperative that capable people are constantly challenged to improve their performance levels, while at the same time, being supported along their...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:47:39 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Hanging by a Thread]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Iam sure you have seen the little desk toy that has a series of steel balls in a straight line, suspended from nylon strings in a small frame. You pull the ball at one end away from the others and then let it go. It smacks against the next steel ball, which doesn&rsquo;t appear to move, but the ball...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:41:48 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Hire the Right Talent]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[What are the usual procedures followed when hiring someone? Screening resumes and conducting job interviews? Are you confident these hiring procedures are effective in helping you select brilliant candidates?
Since HR departments want to hire the right people, they have no room for mismatches resul...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:31:36 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[How to Create Consistency in the Work Environment]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[To be successful, a company needs to be consistently innovative and nimble (among other things), and organizations can absolutely create an environment enabling this to occur. They can do this in numerous ways.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:42:02 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[How to Hire Without Regret]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When you consider the immense amount of time and resources a company puts into hiring new employees, it shows the importance of the hiring process. It is no wonder that the existence of numerous risks during this process lead to inappropriate decisions and outcomes. These link a well-known effect in...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:32:31 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[HR's Split Personality]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[HR has been making great strides to strategically align itself as a business partner in order to increase its impact. Being strategic means designing and operating HR programs and initiatives with the goal of making a direct contribution toward meeting overarching business objectives. Rather than re...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:29:34 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Incorporating Employee Engagement into the Business Strategy of Employee Retention]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Employee retention continues to remain a top priority at many organizations and one that companies increasingly view as a driver of business strategy. Business-critical knowledge can walk out the door when an employee leaves the company. While employee retention figures have long been used by compan...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:48:20 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Indicators]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Earth shrugged and 230,000 people died. The Earth shrugged and our frailty, our tenuous hold on life once again became apparent. On Sunday, December 26, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake occurred 100 miles off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in histo...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:42:31 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Information Security: Maybe You’re Buttoned Up, But What About Your Vendors?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Much of the sleep lost by information technology leaders is due to ensuring their organization&rsquo;s information systems are as resistant to infiltration and accidents as they can be. Companies invest huge sums in their infrastructure to stay one-step ahead of hackers, cyber-terrorists and the eff...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:13:33 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Iron, Coke, Chromium Steel]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ireally like people who can make things with their hands; always have. People who produce goods like cars, homes, planes, clothing, food and their underlying components, like steel, lumber, bricks, cotton and energy, hold a special place in my heart. Farmers as well, are truly special in my mind bec...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:42:50 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Keeping Call Center Employees Happy: Human Capital Retention in BPOs]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In India, call centers make up a key ingredient in the industry sector known as Business Process Outsourcing, or BPO. For many of India&rsquo;s youth, call center positions are highly prized for their pay, given that a typical call center employee earns significantly higher income than the national ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:32:23 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Leaders as Brand Managers]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Branding is just as crucial for attracting and retaining customers as it is for attracting and retaining investors. Branding draws the right kind of employees to an organization. A holistic definition of an organization&rsquo;s brand is the sum total of its name, logo, trademarks, patents, intellect...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:15:28 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Leaders as Partners]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The traditional idea of leadership encompasses notions such as effective management of followers, having vision, being able to inspire and teach, making strategic decisions that benefit the organization, and helping the organization grow and evolve. Another facet of leadership that is particularly s...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:34:55 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Leaders as Proactive Naysayers]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of the smallest words in the English language&mdash;&rdquo;No&rdquo;&mdash;can sometimes be the most difficult to say. Most people prefer to couch their refusal of something in euphemistic terms so as not to offend or hurt the recipient. However, sometimes it can be wiser to just say &ldquo;No&r...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:35:06 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Leaders as Pruners]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of the most exacting and time-consuming, yet essential, tasks of a landscape gardener is pruning. This is both a science and an art&mdash;the former because it requires a clear understanding of what and how to prune rather than random hacking of branches, and the latter because you need to simul...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:35:17 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Leaders as Soothsayers]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The three witches in Shakespeare&rsquo;s Macbeth, their cauldron full of grisly spells bubbling away, predict the future by calling forth their &ldquo;masters,&rdquo; such ghastly apparitions as an armed head and a bloody child. While the portents one needs to study in the present day are certainly ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:35:27 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[Picture this scene: You are out sailing in your boat on a halcyon day. The sun is shining, there is a steady wind, and you are looking forward to a great day. All of a sudden, a squall blows up, and although you manage to get the sail down and keep the boat from keeling over, it&rsquo;s a tough figh...]]></description>
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     <description><![CDATA[Rapidly changing and unpredictable situations tend to generate anxiety in people. In the organizational context, anxious times could mean situations such as bad financial conditions, a recession, being taken over by another company, a blow to the company&rsquo;s reputation or a major calamity. On a ...]]></description>
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     <description><![CDATA[When leading for creativity, there are often a number of hidden and known influences that affect the presence and type of creativity produced. The work environment contains a number of intentional and unintentional factors that foster or inhibit creativity. Leaders can greatly impact the creativity ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:29:49 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Looking to a Brighter Future]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[This article looks at how the evolution of multiple intelligence theory now promises much for workplace productivity and organizational competitiveness. With World economic pressures bearing down, could the theory&rsquo;s links to talent assessment and organization wide talent audits, carried out th...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:36:45 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Making Performance Management Relevant]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A survey done by the Society for Human Resources Management concluded that more than 90% of performance appraisal systems are a failure. Managers and employees alike typically view the impending review process with dread. For most, it is a painful bureaucratic process that rears its ugly head once a...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 23:27:50 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Nature vs. Nurture or Nature x Nurture?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The debate over the root of human behavior has been rampant for more than a century: Is our behavior the result of nature&mdash;the biological forces that precede our birth? Are we born with certain characteristics that are unchangeable and which we cannot control? Or, are we a result of the nurturi...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:14:50 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[New School Employee Loyalty]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Being a &ldquo;company man&rdquo; used to mean that once you left school, you joined an organization where you were likely to remain for your entire career. The typical stereotype was of an employee toiling away at the various tasks assigned, seated at a gray metal desk in a sea of gray metal desks,...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:43:24 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Onboarding New Employees: An Opportunity to Build Long-Term Productivity and Retention]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Until recently, there has not been significant focus on the onboarding of new employees into organizations. Sure, most companies host new hire orientations where benefits are reviewed, codes of conduct are presented, and basic tools such as phones, computers and office supplies are ordered or confir...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:15:03 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Recognizing the Value of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations: Recognition is Not Enough]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Organizations have increasingly become interested in creativity and innovation, in part as a response to the pressures associated with globalization, competition, economic factors and technology changes. Many organizational leaders see creativity as an opportunity for gaining a sustainable competiti...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:30:33 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Retention: Employee Engagement—ROI Before RIOT]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, if we had been told that measurably highly committed employees are more productive, sell more quality conscious, have longer tenure, miss less work, make fewer mistakes and get better customer service ratings, what would we have said?
Some of us would say &ldquo;prove it,&rdquo; whil...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:15:19 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Rethinking Failure]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[What does the word &lsquo;failure&rsquo; mean to you? Does it evoke feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of lack of success, of disappointment? Do you feel that failing at something makes you less of a person? Failure usually has a negative connotation, and people often talk about someone being...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:38:45 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Scoring Situational Judgment Tests: Does the Middle Matter?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In the typical situational judgment test (SJT), an applicant is presented with a series of situations he or she could be expected to encounter on the job (these situations are usually determined via a job analysis). In most cases, each situation has four or five possible responses and the applicant ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:49:52 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Selecting for Creativity]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Creativity is the ability to come up with novel yet valuable ideas and solutions to organizational needs and problems. It is an important outcome for many organizations, particularly those competing on the basis of an innovation strategy. Organizations can and do take many actions to foster creativi...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:50:06 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[Over the past decade, situational judgment tests have increased in popularity as a predictor of performance. In the typical situational judgment test (SJT), an applicant is presented with a variety of situations he or she would be likely to encounter on the job&mdash;these situations are usually gle...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:39:24 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Slow Down to Go Fast: How to Best Execute an Employee Survey Process]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[I am often asked what makes an employee survey process successful. While the process of surveying is the same no matter what type of survey one is using or how many people are being surveyed, execution is unique to each organization. I have been a student of organizational diagnosis for a few years ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:15:45 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Suddenly, a New Way to Rethink HR: Becoming Your Own Brand Manager]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Branding is just as important today in attracting and retaining employees as it is for attracting and retaining customers. Yet Employment Branding strategies have not refined or applied consumer branding techniques for recruiting and retention purposes. In order for HR practitioners to rethink and e...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:15:56 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Taking Your Recruitment System Global-A Five-Step Process to Getting Started]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Many organizations wonder how best to take their existing recruiting systems global. The key lies in good, old-fashioned planning. When expanding your applicant tracking and assessment tools to your global populations, a critical first step is to establish the right strategy and approach. Your appro...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:29:46 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Talent Management: A “Best-in-Class” Selection Strategy]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of the key issues organizations face is the ability to attract, motivate and retain their employees. Those that focus on attracting and managing talent are able to maintain and enhance the intellectual capital of their organization. They achieve this through the motivation and development of cur...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:16:12 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Benefit of Consistency for Organizations]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The other day I tried to track down the origins of the joke &ldquo;How do you get to Carnegie Hall?&rdquo; My recollection of the response was &ldquo;Practice, Practice, Practice&rdquo;. I had thought that it was an old Jack Benny joke. To my surprise I found many different potential origins to that...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:44:08 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Changing Face of Human Resource Management]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The rapid and ground-breaking developments in technology and globalization and the development of a knowledge-based economy over the past few decades have necessitated tremendous, concomitant changes in the human resources (HR) space.
The role of HR management has changed significantly in the moder...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:41:25 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Impact of Talent in Our School Districts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English defines talent as a &ldquo;special aptitude or faculty.&rdquo; If you are ever in a room with 10 or more people, ask them to take out a piece of paper and a pencil and take a quick pop poll of sorts. Ask them to write the name of the first person tha...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:41:49 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Importance of Networking in Recruitment and Job Hunting]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There are generally three types of people looking for jobs&mdash;new graduates beginning their careers, individuals who have lost their jobs, and jobholders who are looking for new postings. The days when a job meant a lifetime commitment are long gone, and nowadays, people are not just changing job...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:42:04 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Next Generations of Assessments: Simulations]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Online assessment is a phenomenon that has become central to recruitment. Computer-based testing has existed for more than 20 years, but the advent of the Internet age has pushed psychometric testing out of the interviewers&rsquo; offices and into the candidates&rsquo; homes.
The first generation o...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:16:41 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Real Cost of Turnover]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An organization spends time and money trying to hire the people who best &ldquo;fit&rdquo; the job and who enjoy putting in the effort required to accomplish its mission and goals. Further time and effort is spent on training them. However, what happens when someone decides to leave, whatever the re...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:42:24 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Right Message Matters]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s no secret that recruiting the right people is pivotal to the success of your organization. Recruitment begins with communication, and communication begins with messaging. If your messaging is weak, off-point or in the wrong voice, it won&rsquo;t deliver the success you&rsquo;re looking fo...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 10:04:03 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Right Questions to Ask]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[You have decided that you need to hire employees who are a better fit with your organization and have the talent to do their jobs. Furthermore, you find that you do not have the expertise within the organization to develop pre-employment assessment tools that you think are necessary to identify top ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 10:04:15 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Role of a Person-Supervisor Fit on Employee Attitudes and Retention]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The study of person-environment fit (P-E Fit), or the relationship of people to their working environment, has long focused on the congruence between individuals and some level within the environment (e.g. the organization, the group, the vocation). While past research in this field has found a mult...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:42:51 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Seven Tenets of Successful Recruitment Process Outsourcing]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Recruitment Process Outsourcing&mdash;better known as RPO&mdash;has gained significant market momentum in recent years. Yet it has taken a while. Given that employers have been seeking help in their recruiting efforts for decades, it seems odd that the rise of RPO as a service solution has taken so ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 10:03:20 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Time for HR to Revitalize It's Approach, Again]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There has been a significant amount of change in the human resource (HR) function across the globe over the past 10 years. Evolving the behavior of HR practitioners is a critical part of that change; however, the degree of success has been inconsistent.
&nbsp;
The inconsistency is due, in part, to...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:24:59 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Transceiver or Transmitter—Which One Are You?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Communicating effectively involves much more than using the correct words&mdash;it is affected by frame of reference, emotional state, context or situation, body language and communication style. Race, culture, religion, class and gender may also directly or indirectly play a role. The aim of commun...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:17:15 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Using Exit Interviews as a Tool for Talent Retention]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Many people who have left a significant job have found their last week and last day to be chaotic, fast-paced and even emotional. The last day can be spent handing in keys, checking in equipment, clearing desks and offices, signing separation and financial documents, saying good-byes and even comple...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:43:58 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Using Structured Interviews for Selecting and Developing Employees]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The purpose of structured, competency-based interviewing is to help organizations hire and promote people who will succeed in their jobs. Different jobs require different competencies. Competencies are important because they can be used to improve performance (both individual and organizational) in ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 10:05:59 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Valuing vs. Recognizing Employees]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There is currently a lot of talk about recognition. A Google search on Employee Recognition churns out more than 900,000 hits. Recognition is one of those principles of people management that we are routinely reminded about, and frankly, should be reminded about, because it can always be done better...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:17:36 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[We’re All Teleworkers: Applying Telework Success Factors to Drive Business Success]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Exploding business capabilities and organizational global expansion have combined to broaden the definition of telework. Telework, telecommuting and remote work are terms used interchangeably to describe the most popular form of distributed work, an arrangement whereby employees and their tasks are ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:17:47 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[What is Global Engagement Anyway?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Lately, there has been an increase in the interest for understanding global engagement, but it is unclear what people are specifically seeking to know about it. In many cases, people want to know about cultural differences. How does China differ from the United States, from Brazil or from Russia? Wh...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 10:06:22 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[What’s the Value in Having Values?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Should an organization bother with establishing values? There are so many different functions, units, teams and individuals&mdash;all of whom have their own way of working. Are values just another organizational fad?
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In a world where complexity and change are everyday occurrences, organizat...]]></description>
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