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Are you giving your people butter knives or bread knives? - Letter to Members written by Merge Gupta-Sunderji, CSP, MBA - a professional speaker, author, and radio commentator, who turns managers into leaders. [full article >>]
Slovakia’s knowledge labor pool and the changing economy - Prepared by AmCham member: DELL
In the past five years, Slovakia’s economy has gone through major transformation. Strong growth transpired into an overheated job market. The job market became increasingly “candidate friendly”. As the global economic downturn is now correcting this unbalance, for the future, we should be aware that our competitive landscape on the global market of talent stretches well beyond Europe. [full article >>]
Let the heroes emerge - Prepared by AmCham member: Lugera & Makler
Employee engagement is one of the biggest challenges for many employees these days. This is true especially when companies are downsizing, cutting budgets, minimizing or canceling financial incentives. However, in every company facing big challenges “heroes” emerge. These people are focused on the opportunities and possibilities with these tough times are providing us. [full article >>]
White-collar recession - Prepared by AmCham member: TARGET Executive Search
The labor market clearly stagnated throughout 2009. What are the options for managers who were laid off due to cost cutting or restructuring? Why has customer service lost its central place in doing business? A recent study conducted in the CEE region has the answers. [full article >>]
New age leadership is an emotional business! - Prepared by AmCham member: Trevor Neal
Business the world over is in transformation. Navigating organizations through its turbulence is creating highly emotional work places with the capacity to undermine productivity and overall business performance. It’s the new age, organizational capability challenge! Developing emotionally intelligent leadership may well be at the heart of it all! [full article >>]
Separation anxiety - Prepared by: DBM
The way in which notifications about job losses are made sets the tone for everything that follows. Avoid common mistakes and ensure that both your dismissed and retained employees can focus on the future. [full article >>]
The only constant is change - Prepared by AmCham member: Capgemini Slovensko
Whether a change process succeeds or fails depends on the behavior and attitude of those involved – employees, HR and managers. This is why the soft factors need to be attributed just as much significance as facts. [full article >>]
Managing talent in uncertain times - Prepared by AmCham member: Accenture
Some people question whether the “War for Talent“ has ended or whether the cost-cutting will trump the need to nurture the workforce. However, in a downturn, would any leading retailer deliberately damage its brand, and accept that customers were unhappy with its product and looking for alternatives? To the contrary, the retailer would try to highlight the benefits of its products, and increase customer retention by building brand
loyalty. [full article >>]
Adaptable workplace as a talent retention tool - Prepared by AmCham member: Steelcase
With unemployment at a 25-year high, one might think that attracting, engaging, and retaining talent could be last on the list of priorities. However, now the right talent is even more critical for assuring an organization’s survival and its ability to thrive when the economy recovers again. The workplace has a significant impact on talent challenges. [full article >>]
HR challenges for the next five years - Prepared by AmCham member: AMROP HEVER Slovakia
In July and August 2009, The Amrop Hever Group surveyed the HR agenda of main investors already established and operating in the Central & Eastern Europe and/or the Commonwealth of Independent States. This survey aimed at comparing their last five years’ key priorities with today’s main concerns, ambition and targets by 2014. [full article >>]
Increasing versus deepening - Prepared by AmCham member: Masnyk Legal
For an employer, it is vital that his employees perform high quality work. Slovak law addresses the issue of training of employees through the Slovak Labor Code that distinguishes between what is called “increasing” and “deepening” of qualification. [full article >>]
Talent management culture - Prepared by AmCham member: GlaxoSmithKline Slovakia
The pharmaceutical industry in Slovakia is relatively small when it comes to the talent pool. Most of the talented people know each other; they have worked, work or will work together somewhere on their career path. Is it actually possible to build a talent culture in this small and stormy sea full of acquisitions and mergers? [full article >>]
I want to work there! - Prepared by AmCham member: Invensys
One would think there are not too many ways to bridge HR work with that of other company departments. However, there are in fact several ways to engage the entire spectrum of your employees so that they help the company to achieve its HR objectives. [full article >>]
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