Human Resources
Wake Up and Pay Attention
With the highly publicized case of workplace violence at Yale University, many employers are reassessing their practices and trying to determine what could have been done differently. Background checks, personality profiles, while good for screening candidates, often do little to prevent problems from occurring in the future. Besides, we know that folks answers personality profiles [...]
Work/Life Dissonance
Several years ago, I came to the realization that I had developed two different personas in my early professional career. I realized this one day on the drive home from work when leaving someone a voice mail that I said “Ramona” rather than the familiar “Mona” nickname that I used with family and friends. I [...]
Union Reparations
Vice-President, Joe Biden was quoted yesterday as saying on CNBC, “I do believe–and I make no apologies for it–that over the last 100 years the middle class was built on the back of organized labor. Without their weight, heft and their insistence starting in the early 1900s we wouldn’t have the middle class we have [...]
