What Are Professional Employer Organizations & What That Means For You As An Employee? Professional Employer Organizations (PEO) offer administrative support and management services. Simply put, a PEO acts on behalf of a client, similar to the employer of the workforce.Services can include HR management, recruiting, onboarding, payroll, and managing benefits, to name but a …
After human resources was informed in 2014 that Emily Nestor, former front desk assistant for the Weinstein Company, was allegedly sexually harassed by Harvey Weinstein, company officials reportedly informed Nestor that any complaints would be directly reported to Weinstein himself. And when Helen Donahue, a former Vice employee, complained to human resources in 2015 that …
HR Has Never Been on the Side of Workers. #MeToo Is More Proof. Read More »
This is a first, this week’s blog is a letter to a friend. But I think the message applies to a many people out there. Heck, if the shoe fits, consider this your New Year’s Resolution… Dear R. If Eskimos have many different words for snow, you have a similar huge repertoire of ways to …
As Newswise reports, based on employee engagement research by Florida State University business school professor Wayne Hochwarter, recession-based uncertainty has encouraged many business leaders to pursue self-serving behaviors at the expense of those that are considered mutually beneficial or supportive of organizational goals. This plays out in behaviors that Hochwarter’s team classified using the biblical …
Poor Leaders Can Decrease Worker Productivity By Up to 40 Percent Read More »
Establish a strong identity and purpose. Your ethnic and cultural identity is a great asset. Amplify it as a competitive advantage. A strong identity reflects an appreciation of your uniqueness and its value. A strong identity grounds you; a well-defined purpose gives you the self-confidence to know you can choose your own path, rather than …
Ten Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness Read More »
Recently I saw an excellent speaker at an HR conference. She was enthusiastic, smart, well read and incredibly informed on her subject. Her topic was increasing employee involvement and I was very interested in her presentation. Turns out she’d worked for a big company and she’d pioneered using online bulletin boards to solve work, and …
Have you seen the “Drill Sergeant Therapist” commercial put out by Geico? A self-pitying patient who looks like a Generation Y member exclaims his sadness from the couch. He engenders little sympathy from the therapist who energetically offers to escort the “Jackwagon” on a trip to namby-pamby land in search of some real self-confidence. The …
Efficiency. If today’s workplace has a holy grail, chances are that it is summed up by the “E” word. Okay, I know what some of you are thinking, what about profitability? The days of being “inefficiently” profitable are over. If there is a “location, location, location” like mantra for being successful today, efficiency is undoubtedly …
Efficient At Your Job, Inefficient With Your People Read More »
A friend that I went to high school is an accomplished writer on ethical issues. He’s written a couple of books and columns for the NY Times and Fortune. He once called me the biggest BS artist he’s ever met, because I write about the workplace but don’t work in one. Of course I just …
Last week a friend stopped by who’d just been riffed by Microsoft (reduction in force, for the luckily uninitiated). She spoke angrily about the HR woman who answered most of her questions wrong concerning her severance and departure from the company. Initially my friend was told there was no severance beyond six weeks and her …
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
