Human Capital
In association with Towers Perrin
Money can be the wrong motivator
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Reviewed: 26-Sep-07
Offering financial incentives to motivate employees and executives has been a common management practice for decades. Car salesmen get higher commissions for selling more automobiles. Teachers get bonuses when their students score higher on standardized tests. Executives get generous stock options for boosting the company's stock price.
In defence of McJobs
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Reviewed: 19-Sep-07
The idea of "McJobs" -- low-paying positions with little chance of advancement -- bothered the CEO of McDonald's so much that, when Merriam-Webster included the term in its dictionary in 2003, he wrote a public letter of protest. His plea went unheeded. "McJobs" stayed.
How good do you think you are?
Source: HBS Working Knowledge
Reviewed: 13-Sep-07
People commonly predict that they will behave more ethically in the future than they actually do.
Pay gap widens between board and shop floor
Source: The Guardian
Reviewed: 30-Aug-07
Pub groups, retailers and mining companies in the FTSE 100 index have the biggest gaps between pay in the boardroom and the shop floor while banks and landowners have the smallest, according to this year's Guardian/RTF pay survey.
Unsung benefits of employee ownership
Source: The Guardian
Reviewed: 22-Aug-07
Firms owned by staff have beaten the FTSE all-share. So why aren't there more?
Will Generation Yers make good managers?
Source: HBS Working Knowledge
Reviewed: 09-Aug-07
Managers are increasingly concerned about managing 'Generation Yers', otherwise known as 'millennials', those born since the late 1970s.
