By Pierre Towns
Over my 34 year HR career, I have witnessed a deterioration of ethics in the general public's behavior and in business practices. WorldCom, Enron, Tyco, Adelphia, Global Crossing, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, etc., are recent reminders of how far some executive management teams and their "friendly" Boards are willing to go to achieve personal and business objectives that are not in the long-term interest of the organization. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that many HR professionals have fallen victim to this trend.
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By Kerry Fallon Horgan
Find out how best practice employers demonstrate commitment to understanding employees' health and well being needs and provide innovative, highly targeted and accessible initiatives. Holistic approaches by these workplaces focus on physical and psychological health, work/life balance and financial well being.
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By David Tighe
Innovation is critical for business success, and the people within the company drive its innovation process. HR must set the stage for great innovation by creating a corporate environment that fosters such initiatives, fully engaging employees in the process by creating a corporate mindset that encourages and rewards creative work. Without such encouragement, "innovation" initiatives, especially those driven from the top, will fail.
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