Many workers lack useful job feedback

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(Reuters) -- One in four workers has a strong sense of how their job contributes to their firm's goals, said the survey conducted for talent management firm Cornerstone OnDemand and released exclusively to Reuters. And only 18 percent say they have been given useful fee... More »

Growing Recognition of the Toll Health and Financial Concerns May Have on Workplace Productivity

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(From Business Wire) -- The economic crisis has created a significant shift in employers benefits objectives. Controlling benefits costs is now the top benefits objective for employers, edging out employee retention for the first time since 2006. And while improving emp... More »

Male and Female Leaders Are Not That Different

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(From Business Wire) -- OnPoint Consulting studied the influence skills of 223 leaders (116 men and 107 women) across organizations and industries to examine the extent to which there are gender differences. The research specifically looked at the use of four core tacti... More »

Can Mid-Level Managers Escape the Gloom of the Recession and Drive a Recovery Strategy?

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(From PRWEB) -- The Human Capital Institute (HCI) in association with Development Dimensions International (DDI), global talent management expert, announced last week at the Human Capital Summit in Tucson, Arizona, the recent results of a new research report, Mid-Level ... More »

New Leadership IQ Research Paper Asks, Are SMART Goals Dumb?

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(From PRWEB) -- A new study just released by Leadership IQ, a leadership development and research company, reveals startling contradictions to the goal-setting status quo. The company studied 4,182 workers from 397 organizations to see what kind of goal-setting processe... More »