Here’s a piece I wrote for Dice’s Employee Resource Center during the most recent HR Tech conference. Enjoy.. Marcia Conner is an internationally recognized adviser to the world’s largest organizations reinventing themselves and their workforce for the future. She closed down HR Executive’s 15th Annual HR Technology Conference in Chicago this year to a packed house of technologists, HR…
Category Archives: Policies & Procedures
Vacation Archive: Your Employee Handbook is not the King James
This piece was originally posted on June 6, 2010 and I’m on vacation so I’m posting it again… How many pages is your employee handbook? Count them…go on…then come back in an hour when you’re done. The one I’m looking at is 106 pages*…God Almighty! First of all, I understand the importance of covering our…
Best. Blog. Post. Ever.
While I enjoy the holidays and a break from the blog, enjoy this one from the archives – originally published on June 23, 2011. I had a conversation with a vendor today about performance management technologies. He used the phrase “Best Practice” like 57 times over the course of the hour we met. “This is…
By and For Idiots
One of the myriad laws that went into effect here in Illinois on New Year’s Day “forbids employers from inquiring about an applicant or employee’s credit history or obtaining a copy of their credit report” in an ostensible effort to prevent employers “from discriminating based on a job seeker or employee’s credit history.” Some exceptions…
The Unintended Consequences of Stupid Hiring Policies
I ran into a company the other day that had the very stringent requirement that all of their Vice Presidents – administrative, sales, clinical – must have a Master’s Degree. They follow this requirement to the letter. They are willing to hire professionals at the Director level if they are at least pursuing a graduate…
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