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Job Matching Cuts Cost of Job Fit by 40 Percent
Predicting superior performance is all about having enough of the right information when you make people decisions. Having the right information allows you to achieve job fit. Simply put, job fit exists when the skills and attitudes of the employee are in line with...
Workplace Drug Use Stats Sobering
Did you know that there's a 16.9 percent chance the kid who took your coffee order this morning was on some kind of illicit drug as he worked the cappuccino machine? Or that the guy who replaced your roof after the last storm had a 13.7 percent chance of being on...
Webinar: Succession Planning – Preparing for The Perfect Labor Storm
There is overwhelming agreement among executives that succession planning is critical for business continuity. But only one-third of companies have a plan in place – and that’s for the CEO level. The numbers are worse for upper and middle management and almost...
7 Reasons Why Your Succession Plan Will Fail
Succession planning is a process whereby organizations ensure that employees are recruited and/or developed to fill each key role within the organization. (Source: State of Iowa Workforce Planning). The reasons for succession planning include making sure that the...
Cut the Confusion: Pre-Employment Test Validity and Reliability
Two of the most important factors that determine if a pre-employment test is “legal” to use are validity and reliability. And there is no shortage of confusion about what they mean and do. So let’s start there. Validity refers to the accuracy of a measure. A measure...
General Mental Abilities Explained
What most managers mean when they talk about "smart employees" is general abilities or cognitive skills. General abilities suggests how quickly and how accurately an individual thinks logically and sequentially through formulas, reads and comprehends, thinks on his...
5 Steps to Screening, Sorting, and Qualifying Candidates
With few exceptions, screening candidates has become a major problem for companies these days. An oversupply of unemployed candidates and unhappy workers seeking employment or better jobs is clogging up inboxes and bogging down productivity. The deluge of resumes, or...
3 Rules Every Manager Needs To Know About Employee Motivation
Some motivational researchers refer to employee motivators as values or attitudes. There is a quality in the words “values” and “attitude” that suggests right and wrong. That presents a challenge because people like to assign a moral outlook when discussing values,...
Serious Gap In Leadership Effectiveness Exists
A serious gap in leadership effectiveness exists, according to a just released survey by Aon Hewitt. While participants from the 1,328 employers nationwide found that leaders play a vital role in meeting business goals (56 percent), meeting profitability targets (56...
C-Store and Restaurant Employee Turnover On The Rise
Employee turnover rates among C-store workers will be slightly higher this year compared to a year ago according to the just released Convenience Store News 2011 HR & Labor Study. Turnover is nothing new to convenience store retailers. Historically high employee...
