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| Market Mess Exposes Gaps in 401(k) Savers' Knowledge | |||||||||||||
| Recently, amid a financial market meltdown, Bank of America announced it was acquiring Merrill Lynch. Garcia, vice president of HR at Seffner, Florida-based Rooms To Go, knew employees would have questions regarding the deal's effect on their 401(k) plans. What Garcia didn't expect was the kinds of questions she received from employees. While she knew there would be specific concerns with Merrill Lynch as the record keeper for the furniture company's 401(k) plan, she didn't realize how little employees understood about what that meant. | |||||||||||||
| [Full Article] Oct-16-2008 | |||||||||||||
| Not What, Not How, but Who? | |||||||||||||
| Faced with an aging workforce and a growing demand for skilled workers in emerging markets like China and India, companies in the West are grappling with a talent crunch of unprecedented scope. According to experts at Wharton and The Boston Consulting Group, firms are increasingly questioning their workforce requirements and quality, training and development, and wage levels. Responses include over-hiring to meet future needs, upgrading training in concert with universities and in-house corporate schools, and extracting greater productivity through innovation. | |||||||||||||
| [Full Article] Oct-16-2008 | |||||||||||||
| Calling It Quits | |||||||||||||
| Keeping employees motivated is important in any environment, whether it be in a roundtable discussion with executives, among battle-weary troops, or on the court with an underperforming basketball team. If you can't get your employees or coworkers excited about working for you or with you, many of those uninspired workers are going to leave to find happiness (and a paycheck) elsewhere. | |||||||||||||
| [Full Article] Oct-16-2008 | |||||||||||||
| Jobs of the Future: A New Green World | |||||||||||||
| Except for the handful of do-gooder roles held by an idealistic few, environmental jobs used to be all about regulatory compliance. No more. Thanks to the likes of former VP Al Gore, rapidly mobilizing consumers and the very real threat of legislation limiting carbon emissions, businesses are seeing the environmental benefit and the financial sense of giving a hoot. It's a green new world, and it needs employees-lots of them. | |||||||||||||
| [Full Article] Sep-18-2008 | |||||||||||||
| Painful lessons From IT Outsourcing Gone Bad | |||||||||||||
| As companies look to economize in a weak economy worsened by rising energy costs, it may be more tempting than ever to consider outsourcing your IT. But there are many horror stories resulting from outsourcing efforts , from corrupt general managers "with all sorts of conflicts of interest" to projects torn apart by huge turnover rates. | |||||||||||||
| [Full Article] Sep-18-2008 | |||||||||||||
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