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Let’s start with the Wikipedia definition: The Peter Principle is a concept in management theory in which the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate’s performance in their current role, rather than on abilities relevant to the intended role. Thus, employees only stop being promoted once they can no longer perform effectively, and “managers […]
As a former co-op student and current co-op employer, I always get excited when we welcome a new co-op recruit to Learnography. Here are some of the reasons why.
The results are finally in. The World’s Most Admired Companies (WMAC) of 2015 were recently announced by Fortune. Each year, the magazine partners with Hay Group to research the coveted list of companies that redefine the management bar. Hay Group looked into what makes these companies so great. The research identified six megatrends that will […]
When I’ve interviewed candidates the number of times I have heard the question “Is there flexibility to work from home when I want to?” has at least doubled in the last year. While Marissa Mayer at Yahoo famously banned working from home at Yahoo in 2013, there is still a lot of evidence to indicate […]
Multi generational teams and workplaces have become a hot topic. You might wonder why. After all, organizations have always been made up of more than one generation. The Difference Today Is Two Fold: First the number of possible generations working together in one team has increased with the reluctance of the older generation to hang […]
Jamie McMillan is an Ironworker/Welder with over 12 years of experience. While she continues to take on increasingly skills-intensive projects as an Ironworker/Welder, she is also the founder and spokesperson for Journeyman, an organization that promotes careers in construction and non-traditional career paths through school and community outreach. Jamie and her business partner Pat Williams, […]
Journeyman: It’s A Status, Not A Gender – The HR Gazette interviews Jamie McMillan, a skilled Ironworker/Welder and founder of Journeyman and the Workplace Equality (W.E.) Awareness Ribbon initiative.
It is Friday afternoon. You are sitting at your desk, sending out a few final emails, finishing up the last of the reference calls on your list and using the remaining minutes to make a list of the candidates you want to call for phone interviews on Monday. The weekend is just moments away when […]
Our latest interview is with long time friend of The HR Gazette and all-round awesome HR pro, Stacy Glass. Stacy is a Senior Human Resources Consultant with HR Options. The Toronto-based HR guru has a wide range of human resources experience, including expertise in appropriate hiring practices, employment contract creation and enforcement, addressing employee relations issues with counseling […]
New research from Prudential shows that women in the UK who are retiring this year expect incomes £4,800 (US$6,442) lower than men – but the retirement income gender gap is shrinking. Women retiring in 2015 expect a retirement income 25 per cent lower than men Retirement income gender gap at its lowest since 2009 Women […]