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Positive psychology suggests that by focusing on people’s strenghths rather than on their development needs we can transform wellness at work and as a consequence improve organisational performance. Positive Psychology is the emerging field of the study of optimal human functioning. It is a term first used by Martin Seligman in his presidential address to the American Psychological Association in 1998 ...

Don't wait for the crack of a whip. The spring steeplechase season is in full swing, and, like the finely trained horses and jockeys that compete in such events, HR professionals are going to need strength, skill and endurance to handle the hurdles that lie ahead. In a recent study conducted by the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) in conjunction with ...

About The Industry Natural gas, a clear odorless gas, is found underground, often near or associated with crude oil reserves. Exploration and extraction of natural gas is part of the oil and gas extraction industry, covered elsewhere in the Career Guide to Industries. Once found and brought to the surface, it is transported throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico by ...

About The Industry The largest sector of the telecommunications industry continues to be made up of wired telecommunications carriers. Establishments in this sector mainly provide telecommunications services via wires and cables that connect customers’ premises to central offices maintained by telecommunications companies. The central offices contain switching equipment that routes content to its final destination or to another switching center that ...

About The Industry Each week, the U.S. Postal Service delivers billions of pieces of mail, including letters, bills, advertisements, and packages through heat, snow, or rain. To do this in an efficient and timely manner, the Postal Service employs about 615,000 individuals who process, sort, and deliver mail and packages as well as provide customer services and supplies in post offices. ...

Human resource and training issues usually top the list of challenges facing Texas banks. It's not surprising, then, that 263 bankers in 18 locations attended our Human Resources & Training Huddles in March and April. Professional Development Advisor Chris King, who dreamed up and executed the Huddles concept, reported back that there were great exchanges at all locations and many resources ...

House and Senate conferees are about to resolve differences between two opposing ways of fixing a broken public employee pension system. The stakes are enormous for current and future retirees and for property taxpayers. One year ago, the Legislature passed HB 876, creating a Commission to Study the Long-Term Viability of the New Hampshire Retirement System. The 21-member commission was composed ...

HUMAN resources high-flier Kate Kennedy is online for a career with one of the world's top internet firms. The Central College graduate has landed a job with Amazon after studying human resource management. The 27-year-old, from Cumbernauld, near Glasgow, completed an HND in the subject before fast-tracking into the third year of a degree course at the University of Paisley. Kate, ...

“Can’t we just all get along?” I often say to myself whenever an employee conflict escalates to the point where HR needs to get involved. The other night my three and four year old daughters started to have a disagreement but worked it out before intervention was necessary. It brought a happy tear to my eye to see them use some ...

The Agriculture Department has issued misleading and inaccurate reports about discrimination complaints and still can't say how many minority applicants are getting federal farm assistance, according to a federal audit. Suggesting that some of the misinformation was intentional, the report said the department's civil rights office claimed last July that it had cut a 2004 backlog of nearly 700 unresolved complaints ...

A woman who filed a racial discrimination complaint last fall against Mayor Mark Funkhouser's office turned down a reassignment offer Monday and left the office. Ruth Bates, who screened and interviewed candidates for city boards and commissions, told The Kansas City Star that Funkhouser's chief of staff, Ed Wolf, offered her a position at the same salary with the Water Services ...

California's Supreme Court declared gay couples in the nation's biggest state can marry - a monumental but perhaps short-lived victory for the gay rights movement Thursday that was greeted with tears, hugs, kisses and at least one instant proposal of matrimony. Same-sex couples could tie the knot in as little as a month. But the window could close soon after - ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. discriminates against blind people by printing paper money that makes it impossible for them to distinguish among the bills' varying values, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upholds a decision by a lower court in 2006. It could force the Treasury Department to ...

The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a professional association and think tank advancing the science of strategic management, and Vurv Technology, a leader in on demand talent management software, today announced research that HR leaders still do not meet the measures of talent management and business acumen. "The Role of HR in the Age of Talent," shows that only 22 percent of ...

THE TUC has recently published the first report of the Commission on Vulnerable Employment. The North East has one of the highest proportions of vulnerable workers, almost 100,000, or close to 10% of those in work in the region. There are more people in work than at any time before in the region, which is bucking the trend in enjoying employment ...

Are you getting the most from the benefits you offer employees? Do you know why you offer the particular plans included in your employee benefits package? Employee benefits are one of the top 10 issues on the minds of management teams at processors across the country. Their cpncerns revolve around balancing costs while providing the right mix of benefits to retain ...

The world's most influential headhunters share unparalleled insight into emerging business trends and corporate leadership challenges. There are few people as well placed and well qualified to see emerging business trends unfold as the world's most influential executive recruiters. Just consider the experience and perspective they gain from working with a variety of corporate clients to scope the competitive landscape, court ...

Sure, you may have a plan in place for when your top execs go. But what about other key players? The disruption if they leave can cost the company twice as much as their salary. In early February, the Seattle Seahawks announced that they had inked Assistant Coach Jim Mora to a new five-year contract, a typical, fairly nondescript off-season move ...

You can't get to the top without the headhunters. That's as true for businesses as it is for established and emerging leaders. The world's top headhunters control access to the lion's share of C-suite succession and leader-replacement searches for the world's largest corporations. Their influence also extends to the top ranks of the most ambitious smaller companies, which understand how crucial ...

In my younger days, as a newly minted PhD and executive educator, I would challenge my clients to pick one to three behavior patterns for personal improvement—that is, if they demonstrated a positive change in these practices, they would become more effective leaders. As I grew more experienced, I began to realize that three patterns were too many. The problem was ...