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Management Improvement Carnival: 2012 Edition

QAspire

This year, I review three blogs that I have loved reading. I reviewed Seth’s blog last year as well apart from doing “one-question interview and review” for his books “ Linchpin ” and “ Poke the Box ”. However, her blog focuses on topics that relate to the workplace, not just human resources. Seth Godin’s Blog.

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Five Strategies for Hiring Success

Chart Your Course

The National Association of Colleges and Employers estimates the average cost-per-hire in 2011 and 2012 was $5,100. The results were part of the NACE’s 2012 Recruiting Benchmarks Survey. Review both the resume AND social and networking media outlets. Some people interview well, some people do not.

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3 Business Reasons for Employee Engagement Program

Chart Your Course

1) Productivity rises: Gallup performed a meta-analysis across 199 studies covering 152 organizations, 44 industries, and 26 countries – which was featured on the Harvard Business Review blog – and found that general productivity was 18% higher at companies where employees were more engaged than not.

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Employee Volunteer Programs Make A Difference In The Community

Women on Business

In 2011 Sterling Savings employees spent 44,000 hours volunteering. Nearly 80% of our employees participated in 2011. When reviewing a sponsorship request we go through the decision making process and part of the decision is whether it comes with volunteer time. We want to get to 50,000 hours in 2012.

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

What’s worse is that barring any Congressional action on this, the Bush law mandated that the estate tax would return in 2011–at 55% with an estate exemption of $1 million, the lowest exemption amount we’ve seen for many years. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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Employee Engagement Articles

Chart Your Course

How Employee Engagement Hits the Bottom Line Harvard Business Review, November 2012. NEWS, January 2012. Focusing on Employee Engagement: How to Measure it and Improve It UNC: Kenan-Flaglar Business School, 2011. The Power of Empowerment TED Magazine, December, 2012. Canadian HR Reporter, March 2011.

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The Rise of the Hands-On Dad

Harvard Business Review

Over a hundred Major League Baseball players make use of MLB’s paternity leave policy, which was instituted in 2011. In 2012, NBC ran the sitcom “Guys with Kids” and last summer A&E premiered “Modern Dads,” both having fun with the new reality of men as primary caregivers for their families.

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