Human resources and benefits company FirstPerson regularly sends workers to Chicago; Silicon Valley; Austin, Texas; and other far-flung tech hubs to pick up new skills and broaden their thinking.
Tuesday’s training sessions were personal, asking workers to break into small groups to talk about their experiences with race.
Because employees need expertise to successfully tackle a job, the answer is simple, right? There is, however, a definite twist to the answer.
People don’t leave a company because it doesn’t offer free snacks—and they don’t stay and give their best just because it does.
Whether they are called contractors, temporary workers, contingent workers, freelancers or other similar terms, gig-economy positions all fall under the umbrella of what is known as “alternative work arrangements.”
A federal appeals court has acknowledged that permitting an employer to consider prior salary would allow it to benefit from the ongoing gender-based salary gap.
My biggest hurdle was my own assumption. I assumed I couldn’t do something I wanted to do simply because someone said I couldn’t.
It’s human nature for us to make assumptions about the people around us and fill in the unknown gaps of their identity ourselves.
Scalability requires sustainable, repeatable and measurable processes that increase sales volume and grow profits.
Not only do employees have more options for employment than ever, they also have higher expectations of what they want in a job.
All business owners should want to know as much as possible about a person before making a job offer. After all, the investment you are making is enormous.
Authentic, unique presence comes from the inside out, not the outside in. In other words, it can’t be created by someone else telling you how to act.
The program, which Cummins is describing as its “most ambitious community initiative ever,” is called Cummins Powers Women.
We use the word busy to describe how we are doing, we use it to measure our success at work, and we use it to describe our family lives.
The Indiana House has voted to require training about sexual harassment for lawmakers.
Rep. Linda Lawson and Sen. Jean Breaux are working together this session to pass legislation that would hold employers accountable for permitting a wage gap between male and female workers.
About 80 percent of Indiana employers have been affected by prescription drug misuse and abuse, including opioid painkillers, in their workplaces, according to a survey by the National Safety Council.
As state legislatures across the county take steps toward updating their sexual harassment policies, Republican lawmakers who dominate the Indiana General Assembly appear to be adopting a wait-and-see approach.
Corporate tax cuts are already spurring dozens of big U.S. companies to give employees bonuses, but economists say it could take years before the cuts result in significant pay raises.
A professor at IU's Robert H. McKinney School of Law says it's time for the state to change a statute that keeps sexual harassment victims from having their day in court, including a provision that requires an employer to give their consent before being sued.
