Articles Index

Keep Company and Employee Information Safe
In the news virtually every week, you read about large, well-known companies suffering from the loss of sensitive corporate information at the hands of employees. Given that HR departments often hold the key to corporate and employee information, the risk of data breaches presents unique challenges for HR. HR can help prevent information leaks from happening to their company and protect employees.

Profit from Life's Losses: Find Significance
Sometimes life throws us unexpected curve balls. When you get yours - and we all will at one time or another - how you choose to respond to it will set the course for the rest of your life. John Chappelear, author of "The Daily Six" says, "When I received my 'Gift of Desperation' I began to notice, FINALLY, something was missing in my life. It wasn’t success that was missing. It was significance." Upon this realization, he set upon a path to find significance - and he found it. Learn more.

Corporate Data Security Challenges
Identity theft resulting from a corporate data breach is big news. The extensive media coverage and damage to the organizations and brands involved in recent data security breaches has brought identity theft detection and prevention to the forefront of corporate America's concerns.

When Tragedy Strikes: Eleven Tips for Your Workplace Response
A national tragedy or a personal tragedy has a huge impact at work. And, workplaces can help people successfully weather the tragedy. They can ease the passage people experience during tragedy. They can help people deal with the helplessness and grief they experience during tragedy. They can provide a support system to help prop people up during grief. Find our more about the workplace response to tragedy.

Develop a Drug-free Workplace
In a drug-free workplace, the employer has taken steps and initiated policies to ensure that employees, vendors, and customers are not taking or using alcohol or drugs, selling drugs, or affected by the after effects of indulging in alcohol or drugs outside of the workplace during non-work time. Additionally, the goal of a drug free workplace program is to encourage an employee with a substance abuse problem to seek treatment, attain recovery and return to work.

Workplace Violence: Violence Can Happen Here
A very real, clear and present danger lurks just beyond the consciousness of people who work together eight to ten hours a day, five to seven days a week. It is the potential for violence to occur in your workplace. Increasingly, the Human Resources function is both the target of these threats of workplace violence and the organization's first line of defense for the prevention of workplace violence.

Celebrate Life: Workplace Remembrance
People in workplaces around the world will remember September 11 as a day of tragedy, sorrow, remembrance, honor, and celebration. Here are ideas for commemorating and celebrating events of the tragedy. Use these ideas for workplace remembrance of September 11, 2001.