Has a decline in loyalty to one's company, common today among lower-level employees, now spread to the upper ranks as well? When Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli and Monika Hamori of IE Business School analyzed job search data from a leading executive search firm, they found that more than half of the high-level executives contacted by the firm - 52% - agreed to be candidates for positions outside their company.  More ...

 

If you're the kind of person who's always telling other people to look on the bright side, you might want to reconsider. Whether people succeed is not a matter of thinking positively or negatively, but rather whether they choose the strategies that match their thinking styles.  More ...

 

Research shows that the majority of managers do not understand their own organization's compensation philosophy. You need to be specific and transparent about the factors that drive compensation. Because, as compensation expert Kim Keating notes, "Without some clear indication for the rationale behind compensation and promotion decisions, people always fill in the blanks with the worst possible scenario. They'll call it favoritism, or think it's because the manager doesn't like them, or that they've been there too long."