It’s when the allegations wash up onshore like bodies, that’s when we come to help. Someone gets fired or arrested and others resign while the rest of us stare and shake our heads. It’s difficult enough recruiting, hiring, on boarding, training and retaining workforces today. We do our best to screen out emotional instability, incivility [...]
Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
Resigned to silence
Posted: 16th November 2011 by Kevin W. Grossman in Assessments, Background Screening, Human Resources, Leadership, Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Workplace Culture, Workplace ViolenceTags: assessments, background checks, human resources, leadership, Recruiting, workplace violence
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Domestic Violence Doesn’t Stay Home (Telling Amy’s Story Webinar)
Posted: 16th October 2011 by Kevin W. Grossman in Emotional Intelligence, Human Resources, Leadership, Workplace Culture, Workplace ViolenceTags: domestic violence, economics, human resources, leadership, volunteers, workplace violence
*Ignite* “You’re dead.” He mouthed the words from across the room. In an instant I went after him, the man who had abused me, my mother and sister 12 years earlier. *Ka-boom* Thankfully friends and family (in law enforcement) ran interference and removed me quickly, but not before a brief and violently acidic verbal exchange. [...]
In business, fairness need not apply
Posted: 13th October 2011 by Kevin W. Grossman in Economics, Emotional Intelligence, Employment Brand, Human Resources, Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Workplace CultureTags: business, discrimination, diversity, human resources, innovation, internal mobiliity, leadership, quality of fit, Recruiting
The diversity perception is much different in practice. The reality is, we discriminate; we stink at giving folks a fair shake, especially when they’re not familiar. Many of us in the world of work try to be fair, try not to choose one applicant or an internal candidate over another because of attractiveness, ethnicity, religious [...]