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What if Ray Rice Worked For Your Company? Quote by Margaret Spence

The NFL is not your average employer. Its employees are multi-millionaire public figures, whose behavior gets plastered on magazine covers and prompts national conversations on our culture. Its official personal conduct policy explicitly says its employees “are held to a higher standard.” So are they? The domestic violence saga that’s embroiled the NFL in recent

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What’s Keeping HR Up at Night? Quote by Margaret Spence

Scanning the results of Human Resource Executive®‘s latest “What’s Keeping HR Up at Night?” survey, it’s easy to spot a common thread running through the 400-plus responses to our 2014 poll. When asked what they consider to be the three biggest challenges facing their organizations today, participants most frequently said “ensuring employees remain engaged and

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House of Ruth Hopes Work with Ravens on Domestic Violence Policy

Workplace Domestic Violence Pro Football Kaiser Permanente Ray Rice Business U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission The panels on the stand-up display feature the words of a dozen women who survived domestic violence, telling why they stayed and how they left. By Lorraine Mirabella The Baltimore Sun Growing out of a larger effort to tackle domestic

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Bank of America Small Business Community – Quotes Margaret Spence

Stephanie Laitala was diagnosed with a serious medical condition in April of 2009. Ten days later she was in surgery. In the coming months she underwent chemotherapy. Seven months later sales were up 20 percent at her company. How did this happen without Laitala, president and owner of OWL Bookkeeping and CFO Services, at the

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7 Ways to Get Ahead at Work Before the New Year – Time Article Quotes Margaret Spence

 7 things you must do before January 5 Words That Can Doom Your Career 4 Smart Ways to Give Your Career Staying Power You have a little more than a month to go before the end of the year, so make the most of it. Experts say these are the important things to get done

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In Defense of HR – Slate Article Quotes Margaret Spence

Slate Article – In Defense of HR Lots of people have an HR horror story: forms never filed, emails never answered, simple questions that somehow mushroomed into drawn-out bureaucratic nightmares. The Office’s Toby Flenderson is a quintessential caricature of human resources: boring, dejected, a little pathetic, openly loathed by his boss, and stuck with the

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Slate Article – In Defense of HR

Slate Article – In Defense of HR Lots of people have an HR horror story: forms never filed, emails never answered, simple questions that somehow mushroomed into drawn-out bureaucratic nightmares. The Office’s Toby Flenderson is a quintessential caricature of human resources: boring, dejected, a little pathetic, openly loathed by his boss, and stuck with the

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Employees Complain about Sexual Harassment – Margaret Spence Quoted in the Orlando Sentinel

Human-resources experts said it’s not unusual for employees to endure inappropriate behavior — especially by a senior-level boss — because they fear for their jobs. “You put the employees in a position that they don’t want to come into work every day. That they don’t want to deal with that kind of stress. But they

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