Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) -- Senior management respect for worker contribution has been found to be the top leadership factor promoting engagement, according to a global survey of 28,000 employees in 15 countries by Right Management. Other senior leadership behaviors that correlate highest with employee engagement include implementing and communicating organization strategy. Right Management is the talent and career management expert within Manpower, the global leader in employment services.

Right Management analyzed dozens of leadership practices and behaviors in order to determine which are most strongly related to employee engagement. Those with the highest correlations are:

1.    Senior leaders value employees
2.    Senior leaders have the capability to make my organization successful
3.    Senior leaders effectively implement my organization's strategy
4.    Senior leaders effectively communicate my organization's strategy to employees

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Tags: employee engagement, leadership, talent management, career development

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Melbourne, FL (PRWEB) -- Social networking in the workplace is a major dilemma for today's businesses. The question is: "Does it help or hurt the organization?"

Although the general issue is always the same, the specific challenges vary. They range from productivity losses, to legal risks, to bandwidth drains and security problems. And even more specifically, these challenges are associated with various types of sites that employees often visit for personal reasons. A few years ago, pornography sites presented the greatest challenge, while today social networking sites seem to be 'number one' with Facebook being the most popular.

A survey conducted by Nucleus Research showed that 77 percent of workers who have a Facebook account use it during work hours. Of those who use Facebook at work, 87% said they could not define a clear business reason for accessing the site, and some reported using it as much as two hours per day.

Wavecrest Computing has been helping businesses and other organizations deal with Internet usage issues for more than twelve years. In general, these entities all face the same challenge, i.e., how can the organization maximize the benefits of social networking access while minimizing the risks of personal surfing at work?

Wavecrest Computing discusses these issues in their white paper "Social Networking or Social Not-Working?" They address the question "To what extent, if any, should workers be permitted to engage in social networking 'on the job,' and why?" and offer recommendations, such as a "well-designed Web-use policy."  

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Tags: social networking, workplace, productivity, security

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Tags: social networking, linkedin, workplace

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A San Francisco supervisor is at odds with SolarCity over the installer's promise to create a job training program in a low-income neighborhood, a conflict that highlights the city's struggle to create "green" jobs and protect local businesses.

Supervisor Chris Daly is pressing SolarCity to fulfill the pledge it made in April 2008 when it was persuading San Francisco political leaders to pass what became the city-funded GoSolarSF program, which the city touted as the largest municipal solar program in the country (see San Francisco Solar Incentive Becomes Official).

In a committee meeting last week, Daly asked SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive why he hasn't created a job training program in the Bayview-Hunters Point area. Daly, who didn't vote for the GoSolarSF program, said he wanted to keep SolarCity accountable given that its promise influenced the final vote.

"The training academy was dangled in front of us as an incentive to vote for the pilot solar incentive program," Daly said at the meeting (see Nov. 5 video recording). "I'm trying to figure out how to deliver promises that were made." 

Rive said the company had to put the plan to create a job training program on hold because of the financial market collapse last fall, which prompted SolarCity to freeze hiring and suspend other business plans.

Since business has improved this year, SolarCity has re-launched its effort to provide job training, Rive said. Given the feedback it has received from the community, SolarCity is working on supporting an existing job program rather than creating its own, Rive added.

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Tags: california, job training, green jobs, government funding

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(Leslie Grossman, The Huffington Post) -- I'm in ecstasy. My New York Yankees won the World Series. And they clinched it 9 minutes before my birthday. I got the best birthday gift money can't buy. My happiness caused me to reflect about why I love the Yankees so much. The answer popped into my head - because of their leadership. Okay, I am a leadership fanatic, maybe not as much as a Yankee fanatic, but, I am obsessed with always looking at why and how people lead. Small businesses and corporations alike might consider looking at the success of the Yankees and ask the same questions.

So here's my assessment on why I believe the NY Yankee team, management, and yes, even, the ownership, show the following leadership abilities:

1. Passion - The New York Yankees have a passion for the game of baseball and for their own teammates. You can see it on their faces, in their enthusiasm and in the fun they have on the field. Their leader Joe Girardi shared a clear vision by choosing the #27 and wearing it boldly on his back for all to see the clear common goal - win the Yankees' 27th World Series. And so they achieved the goal set by the manager within 2 years of his taking on the job as manager.

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Tags: leadership, employee development, communication

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Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) -- With the economy cautiously turning the corner, senior leaders are focused on hiring and developing talent, according to a survey of more than 450 senior executives on LinkedIn® by Right Management. 94 percent of executives said talent management is a top priority for 2010. Right Management is the talent and career management expert within Manpower, the global leader in employment services.

The findings present good news for employees and job seekers. Employers are preparing themselves for growth opportunities as the economy rebounds and are looking for ways to enhance performance and productivity. One-third of the senior executive respondents will be hiring new talent in 2010, while 36 percent will focus on developing current talent. Twenty percent reported that increasing employee engagement is a top priority. Career development opportunities and efforts to increase engagement typically improve retention, which may explain why only 4 percent of senior leaders indicated they would be focusing efforts on retention.

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Tags: talent management, employee retention, career development, executives, new economy

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Tags: workplace, stress, health, collaboration, flexibility

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U.S. President Barack Obama says innovation will be the key to creating the jobs of the future.  Mr. Obama says he is looking for new ways to recoup the jobs lost during the economic recession.

With a new round of dismal job loss figures expected later the week, President Obama says he is searching for ways to create new employment opportunities.

"This is my administration's overriding focus," said President Obama. "Having brought the economy back from the brink, the question is how are we going to make sure that people are getting back to work and able to support their families."

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Tags: innovation, jobs, new economy, federal government

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Women have come a long way in the workplace, helped by legislation and the recognition by many companies that diversity and gender is something they should "get." But diversity's move into the mainstream corporate world has its disadvantages. It can make more subtle discrimination harder to spot and tougher to deal with.

And news about gender often tells a different story to the happy corporate spin about progress for women at work.

News outlets reported on Monday for example that two guardians of Britain's historic Tower of London have been suspended after the first woman warden or "Beefeater" in the Tower's 524-year history accused them of harassment. "If you talk today to people in the workplace they construct the workplace as gender neutral," said Elisabeth Kelan, author of a new book, "Performing Gender at Work."

"They assume that gender no longer matters in 2009 because the issue has long been solved."

Kelan calls this phenomenon "gender fatigue," which she says will make it more challenging to tackle the discrimination that still happens in the workplace but in more subtle ways.

"Gender fatigue actually refers to the phenomenon that people lack the energy to construct the workplace again and again as gender neutral despite the fact that discrimination continues to exist."

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Tags: london, gender issues, workplace, diversity

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For many people, one of the best parts of the holidays when they were growing up was sitting around watching the Peanuts movies on television. It didn’t feel like Halloween was coming until “It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” had aired. And fans of Charles Schulz know that his work had many kernels of truth being illustrated by the lovable children he portrayed. Here are some of those kernels that we can use in the workplace—on Halloween or all year round.

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Tags: workplace, co-workers

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