Rejecting employee requests without being hated
By Rey Elbo
What are the best management strategies of disapproving the workers’ requests without creating bitterness? It appears that there are many people, majority of whom...
Wage hikes in China bring some jobs and factories back to Japan
WHILE there is no end in sight to off-shoring by Japanese companies, signs are emerging that surging wages in China are encouraging at least some...
Macron gains support in bid to revamp EU’s cheap-labor rules
FRENCH PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron picked up support in his bid to overhaul European Union rules on cheap labor in the first leg of a...
In Lebanon, salt producers fear craft is drying up
AT 93, Elias al-Najjar has spent half a century harvesting salt by hand from ponds on Lebanon’s Mediterranean shore, but he and his colleagues...
Looks like hiring more women bosses really does pay dividends
YOU DIDN’T SEE this in the Google e-mail.
Supporters of gender diversity in the workplace — in particular boosting the number of women managers —...
Six strategies to manage uncooperative workers
By Rey Elbo
Many of our people managers appear not to be convincing when they talk to the workers despite a good number of our proactive two-way...
Former teller Duke named top woman in US bank industry
BETSY DUKE was working in a Virginia Beach dinner theater in the mid-1970s, struggling to make ends meet, when she applied for a job...
Australia adds more jobs than forecast
AUSTRALIA added more jobs than forecast in July, even as a burst of full-time hiring came to an end, setting up a mixed picture...
Why CEOs spurned Trump’s business councils, in their own words
PRESIDENT Donald Trump disbanded his two business advisory councils Wednesday as chief executive officers staged an exodus to protest his response to a white-supremacist...
Seven questions you should ask before accepting a job offer
By Rey Elbo
I was interviewed by an HR manager for a vacant managerial post in a medium-sized corporation. She was amiable and appeared to be very...
Moon acts to stop discrimination in South Korean hiring practices
WHEN 28-year-old Joo Yerim applied for a job at an art distribution company in Seoul last year, she was required to provide her height...
Nissan workers reject union bid at Mississippi plant
NISSAN has defeated a bid by the United Auto Workers to unionize employees at a factory in the US Deep South, ending a bitter...