Archive
By Staff Report
Apr. 26, 2001
Features
| Fight Dirty Hiring Tactics |
| Unethical recruiters resort to lies, theft, and bribery to woo away your employees. Here are the tools you need to stop them. By Eilene Zimmerman |
| The New Thinking in Performance Appraisals |
| HR professionals are abandoning traditional annual performance reviews. Instead, they’re finding new ways to set goals and measure achievement. By Dayton Fandray |
| A Return to At-Will Employment |
| A decision by the California Supreme Court might bring business back to real at-will employment. Here’s what it means for you and your company. By Matthew Heller |
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Departments
| Between the Lines |
| You’ll get through it. |
| Mailbox |
| Does age matter? • Why people expect so much from their jobs. • Money isn’t everything. |
| The Buzz |
| HR lessons for the dot-coms. • Internship diversity • Raw Data: the smuggler’s want ad • Well Done: Unisys and its college partners. |
| On the Contrary |
| Wouldn’t some chicken be good, right about now? Shari Caudron intends to spend less time on work, and more time mulling her poultry picks. |
| What Works |
| How a workplace drone blossomed into a motivated, engaged business partner. Tom Terez tells the tale of Walter, an employee you might recognize. |
| Interview |
| Executive coach Marshall Goldsmith comes with a money-back guarantee. He shares his tips on HR’s role as coach, including how to handle the know-it-all boss. |
| Dear Workforce: |
| Expert advice on measuring employee worth, workplace mentoring, and configuring a vacation and personal leave policy. |
| Legal Insight |
| The legal aspects of performance appraisals. • What to do with an employee who reeks of alcohol. • Can you force employees to have lunch together? |
| Small, Medium, Large |
| Nothing kills business faster than bad service. Here’s how three very different companies created customer-service training that delivers. |
| Think Twice |
| Todd Raphael isn’t ready to give exclusive tax breaks to ensure a supply of IT workers. Not when other vital professions have such critical shortages. |
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