Last year, employers found out how their nearly 25,000 workers felt about their jobs, their companies, and the employers themselves. And it didn't cost them a dime to do so. They have the same opportunity this year.
An imbalance in the pay of chief executive officers triggers higher turnover among managers, according to research conducted by Charles O'Reilly, director of the Center for Leadership Development and Research at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
How do America's employees feel about their workplaces? And how do employees' feelings at any one company compare with national benchmarks? America's employers are about to find out.
Twenty percent of workers say they plan on changing jobs in 2007, many of them seeking jobs with better pay and opportunities for career advancement, according to a survey conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder.com.
When asked to identify their most pressing strategic HR issue for 2007, 60 percent of HR executives said they were most concerned with "talent management" which encompasses recruiting, assessing, developing and retaining talent. That was among the findings of the latest annual ORC Worldwide HR Priorities survey, conducted among HR executives from various industries and company sizes.
