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What every HR manager needs to know.

by Dale Dwyer, Ph.D.

Don't Be Penny Wise and Pound Foolish

An estimated 15 percent of the U.S. workforce (19.2 million workers) regularly abuse alcohol. Out of this estimate, 2.3 million workers drink before work, 2.1 million employees work under the influence, and 11.6 million workers come to work with a hangover. Read More

Measure Twice, Cut Once!

Carpenters and builders have learned to avoid making mistakes the hard way, thereby ruining valuable and costly material. Cut the wood improperly, and the piece is unusable. So, the little saying about measuring twice and cutting once plays in their heads every time they are about to rip into a new sheet of plywood or to position their saw on a 2x4. Read More

Downsizing, Rightsizing, and Fantasizing

Not all top managers understand the detrimental effect layoffs have on the long-term financial and cultural health of their organizations. Read More

Two's Company, Three's a Crowd

Proximity Makes the Heart Grow Fonder Read More

Don't Do What Doesn't Work

Look in any company, and you are likely to see managers who adopt every newfangled approach to management that comes along. Although these managers often recognize that the new approach or program is not having the impact they would like it to have, they keep trying new approaches that take an inordinate amount of time and resources to implement. Moreover, with only 45% of workers r Read More

Rules Are Meant to Be Broken!

Joseph Campbell remarked, in his book and TV series with Bill Moyer called The Power of Myth, Read More

When in Rome...

No two cultures-societal or organizational-are exactly alike. If you have ever traveled to other countries, you no doubt have observed widely different ways of eating, celebrating, and worshiping. In comparing societies across the globe, the acceptable norms for behavior, communication, and relationships vary as widely as their languages, foods, and religions. Visitors to diff Read More

Employees Say and Do the Dumbest Things

Don't you wish that employees were more like....you? Of course you do. But the reality is that, as managers, we have to deal with all sorts of crazy stuff, and that includes the dumb things that employees say and do.

I'm sure we've all heard outlandish stories about the behaviors of real job applicants and real employees. Consider this one: Read More