Extreme downsizing is what management professor Wayne Cascio says companies engage in when they cut their workforce by more than 20 percent. To date, almost 40 percent of the United States's largest companies practiced extreme downsizing during the Great Recession. Down... More »

Human Capital , Senior Leaders & Executives

Human Performance Improvement , Jobs , Trends

2009 is one year that none of us will ever forget. We all had to shrink to squeeze through the eye of the storm, and we had to learn how to compete in a completely new game. Our competitors, we found, are no longer in our neighborhoods or on the other side of town. They... More »

Career Development , Human Capital , Senior Leaders & Executives , Workforce Development

Advanced Level Content , Business Impact , Career Planning , Human Performance Improvement , Integrated Talent Management , Leadership Development , Management Development , Measuring and Evaluating , Trends

The global recession and threat of a jobless recovery have converged with decade-long seismic shifts in the workplace (Table 1) to create profound implications for today's employees. These volatile changes have been dubbed the "new normal," where long-held assumptions h... More »

Global Human Resources Development , Human Capital

Advanced Level Content , Business Impact , Engagement , Human Performance Improvement , Integrated Talent Management , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Trends

Thirty years ago, a high-potential manager in a training class at General Electric's corporate university listened as my father, Ned Herrmann, then head of GE's management education, discussed research he was developing on how the brain affects day-to-day operations. St... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development

Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Intermediate-level Content , Training and Development - General , Trends