An assembly line at a Ford plant. Credit: Wikipedia Commons

In 1914, Henry Ford did something dramatic, to the point it made headlines in newspapers across the country – he increased pay from $2.25 a day to $5 a day for his factory workers.

Not that the $5 was guaranteed. Workers got $2.25 daily and the other…

Here’s an amazing statistic that will soon affect virtually every company in America: 57 million baby boomers areexpected to retire in the next few years, according to the US Department of Labor.

Fifty-seven…

There is no shortage of zombies in pop culture today: The Walking Dead, World War Z, Warm Bodies, etc. But think about if an actual zombie apocalypse really came about, and there was just you and your neighborhood to protect yourselves against the “walkers” and…

Michael Sam as a player for the University of Missouri. Credit: Marcus Qwertyus 

There was a lot of news this past weekend about Michael Sam, as he became the first openly gay…

I went to the Tri-State Society for Human Resources Management Conference last week. And the number one topic?

Human resources, as a department, wants a “seat at the table.” In other words, they want the same voice that marketing, finance, operations, etc gets at a company.

So how will they get it? It is all about one thing: revenue. Or, more accurately, tracking and then taking credit for revenue that human…

Take a second and think about recruitment twenty years ago, before the Internet. How did people build their talent pools?

They could put an ad in a newspaper or promote from within or ask people they knew; maybe go to a job fair. Or they could hire a recruitment firm and that firm generally had more connections or would go to…

It all starts with hiring the right people.

This police officer could be described as disengaged. Credit: Wikipedia Commons

One of the biggest problems in the American workforce today is disengagement, which means – as you might surmise – employees do not feel…