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Soliciting feedback is one easy way to confirm an outplacement-services vendor is delivering high-quality services to former employees, but to their detriment, not enough HR leaders are making the effort to learn what those affected think.
Recent gender-based class-action suits against pharmaceutical makers shed some light on potential root causes, as well as actions HR professionals may take to avoid similar situations in their own organizations, regardless of industry.
Competing business priorities have taken some focus away from leadership development at many organizations, just at a time when effective leadership is more crucial than ever.
A new Employee Benefit Research Institute report says employers may end up spending more money on healthcare coverage if neighboring employers dump their more-costly spouses onto their plans. | | | |
 | Despite the due diligence put into selecting HR technology, most organizations aren't satisfied. Executives don't think it helps HR be more strategic and users don't think it helps them be better at their jobs. So how do you solve these issues and make sure that your next technology purchase doesn't compound them? |
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| | | Snippets From  | | | With the national conversation on minimum wage as a backdrop, Gap Inc. says it will set the minimum hourly rate for its U.S. workforce at $9 per hour this year and establish a minimum-wage rate of $10 per hour next year, writes Senior Editor Andrew R. McIlvaine.A new study finds ethics-training programs are largely doing a good job of connecting with the average employee, writes Staff Writer Mark McGraw, but their effect wanes when it comes to managers.Web Editor Michael J. O'Brien recaps the sad tale of former Atlanta Public Schools HR head Millicent Few and her admitted involvement in the city's standardized-test-cheating case. Managing Editor Kristen B. Frasch takes a deeper look into research that finds employees of gay executives often have higher levels of job satisfaction than employees of other leaders.
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