Tag: promotion

September 29, 2023

For organizations exploring ways to improve employee growth, engagement and retention, promotions aren’t a sure thing. New analysis from the ADP Research Institute’s quarterly Today at Work report finds that 29 percent of people who received their first promotion left […]

June 28, 2022

Conclusory allegations of gender discrimination are not sufficient to allow a plaintiff to survive summary judgment, according to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In order to overcome a motion for summary judgment in a gender discrimination lawsuit brought […]

November 19, 2021

SHRM President and Chief Executive Officer Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, is answering HR questions as part of a series for USA Today. Do you have an HR or work-related question you’d like him to answer? Submit it here. I […]

August 31, 2021

The statute of limitations on an employee’s claim that her company failed to promote her because of bias began when the worker knew—or reasonably should have known—that her company didn’t promote her, the California Supreme Court ruled. A statute of […]

September 1, 2020

A traditional challenge for training and development departments has been how to foster their staff’s retention of material. Training is often conducted for new staff at the start of their term of employment or once a year. Employees are required […]

June 18, 2020

“Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.” ―Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile […]

December 3, 2019

Employers that don’t recognize the importance of development opportunities risk losing talent to competitors. In fact, clear development paths can be viewed as employee benefits in their own right. A June poll of hourly workers by hourly work platform Branch […]

August 9, 2019

Q.) We want to give an important employee a raise to ensure she stays with us, but we don’t want to be unfair to other workers. Are there other ways to retain this employee without upsetting coworkers? A.) There are […]

February 22, 2019

A recent survey conducted by HR consultancy Korn Ferry revealed that 55 percent of employees prefer a raise with no promotion. However, 45 percent of them are just fine with a new title and no salary bump. The survey, conducted […]

June 5, 2018

According to a recent report by Kimble Applications, quite a few employees in the United States did not take all of their allotted vacation time. Today we are joined by Kimble Application’s Mark Robinson to discuss the findings. Finally, scroll […]

April 20, 2018

In yesterday’s Advisor, we noted that passive candidates may be a great resource to try to fill vacant roles. We reviewed several ways to try to find these candidates. Today, we’ll take a look at how to entice a passive […]