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	<title>The Business of Management</title>
	<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt</link>
	<description>All about the issues that arise when workforce issues converge with business management.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Using Management Grandstanding to Deal With the Employee From Hell</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/07/24/using-management-grandstanding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hollon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Management Skills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You may remember my blog post about the Employee From Hell, a disgruntled computer engineer who had taken over the city of San Francisco’s computer system and denied access to everyone else despite being arrested and thrown into jail with a bail of $5 million.
Well, he’s finally surrendered the access codes to the city’s computer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Workplace Trend I Can Do Without</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/07/23/new-workplace-trend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hollon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[The Future of Work]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[business etiquette]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Workforce Trends]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not easy keeping up with all the latest workplace and tech trends (hey, I just finally got plugged into Twitter). But frankly, some are not worth the effort. They’re just silly.
Here’s an example of what I’m talking about, with the question courtesy of USA Today: “Can the fist bump mix with business?”
According to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message in a SHRM Book List, Summer Edition</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/07/18/shrm-book-list/</link>
		<comments>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/07/18/shrm-book-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hollon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Training &amp; Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The HR Profession]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leave it to our friends at the Society for Human Resource Management to take something simple and straightforward and make it more complicated than it needs to be.
Every year after its annual June conference, SHRM blasts out an e-mail touting the best-sellers at the SHRM bookstore from the most recent conference. I wrote about it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Deadly Serious Issue: Overtime</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/07/16/a-deadly-serious-issue-overtime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hollon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[The Future of Work]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Workforce Trends]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Management Skills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Question: How do you know it’s a really bad time for the U.S. economy? Answer: When overtime suddenly becomes a hot-button topic.
Yes, it’s a tough economy and job market, but both of those factors also mean that even the great majority of Americans who have jobs are worried about keeping them. And that in turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing With the Employee From Hell</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/07/15/employee-from-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hollon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Management Skills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you manage people long enough, you will eventually get tested by just about every kind of employee possible. Some will stick out in your mind as particularly troublesome, but once in a while, one will pass your way that tests your management skills and demeanor in ways you never dreamed of. Yes, sometimes you [...]]]></description>
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