Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:49:47 GMT http://www.gantthead.com/blog/Eye-on-the-Workforce/ From big workforce issues to interpersonal interactions, we'll look for the latest and most effective solutions. http://www.gantthead.com/blog/Eye-on-the-Workforce/1399/ Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:00:47 GMT Continuing with the sporadic series on leadership in the downturn, it's time to look at another good idea for motivating workers when there is a lot of bad news around.   Jon Katzenbach studies great motivators in the workplace. He tells us that you should use your knowledge of the individual def... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/Eye-on-the-Workforce/1393/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:21:06 GMT After layoffs you want to maintain high morale and productivity for the remaining workforce, but it is not easy. Their collective head is spinning with all kind of emotions. They are not sure what jobs to do in all cases. What's worse, you may feel the same way.   In your project, the workers who ... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/Eye-on-the-Workforce/1375/ Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:53:26 GMT Now that we are aggressively cost-cutting and looking for ways to avoid additional expenses, training is an obvious area to reassess. An article by David Wilkins suggests there are three general approaches using social networking and other Web 2.0 technologies. Embedding social media inside o... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/Eye-on-the-Workforce/1366/ Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:44:56 GMT There are still layoffs to come in many organizations. If you are involved as one who is conducting the meetings with individual employees, or if you have workers who will be laid off , you want to make sure that there are as few legal actions as possible resulting from those layoffs. Harsh, but tru... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/Eye-on-the-Workforce/1351/ Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:58:05 GMT Here's the key phrase to trigger your memory when you are trying to remember how to dampen the impact of negative feelings in the workplace: ventrolateral prefrontal cortex.   Sure, it may seem obvious now that you know it, but it took brain scientists untold thousands of dollars to show through s... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/Eye-on-the-Workforce/1344/ Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:53:09 GMT If only we could do one thing that would help workers and team leads get started right away on their tasks rather than wait. Sean McRea at Germany's University of Konstanz and his crack team may have something for us, now that they have shed some light on procrastination.   After a series of thre... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/Eye-on-the-Workforce/1332/ Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:13:10 GMT Is high job satisfaction what leads to a high-performing employee? Not necessarily, according to Nathan Bowling, Ph.D., psychology at Wright State. His recent study shows that satisfaction and performance are correlated, but high job satisfaction does not cause high performance.   Bowling says tha... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/Eye-on-the-Workforce/1327/ Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:03:31 GMT Given everything that you have to do as a project manager, should you take special action to make sure your employees are happy? You're not running some sort of good vibrations camp.   According to Thomas Wright, Jon Wefald Leadership Chair in Business Administration and professor of management at... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/Eye-on-the-Workforce/1313/ Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:53:06 GMT Faithful reader Naomi C. (not her real last name) wanted me to comment on the newly signed pay discrimination law. This particular law basically changes the acceptable timing of initiating a pay discrimination suit. Now the deadline is related to each check you get rather than when the salary starte... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/Eye-on-the-Workforce/1311/ Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:08:32 GMT We know that workers have been affected by the economy. ComPsych conducted a poll last year to find out just how much employees are affected. Ninety-two percent of participants reported "loosing sleep" over things like cost of living, credit card debt and mortgage payments. ComPsych, which is an Emp...