Author: Martha Finney

Attracting the Wrong Kinds of Candidate? Could Be Your Bait

Posted by Martha Finney | Productivity, Quality, Value

Depending on your industry and your geographic location, you spent the last 10 years or so...

Doesn’t HR Deserve to Be Engaged Too? Part 2

Posted by Martha Finney | Career Management, Competitive, Value

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article called Doesn’t HR Deserve to Be Engaged Too? And I received some interesting resistance both openly and privately. Some objected to the word deserve. Others said that engagement is an...

Employee Engagement in a Time of 9.2%

Posted by Martha Finney | Career Management, Competitive, Customer, Innovation, Productivity

For around 15 years, employers (at least the ones who were awake) have been caught up in the chase...

Why I Love HR

Posted by Martha Finney | Career Management

HR puts feet to dreams. When leaders and entrepreneurs lie awake at night and spin grand castles in the air, pretty soon they have to start asking themselves where they are going to get the talent to build those castles for...

If You Aspire to Be a Great Place to Work, You’ve Set the Bar Too Low

Posted by Martha Finney | Career Management, Competitive, Productivity

So the 2011 Fortune Best Companies to Work for list has been out new for several months. Did anyone really notice it this year, except for the winning 100 companies? I wonder if this is a notion whose time has come and gone....