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Jeannette Swist

View Powerpoint Eastland Disaster

View Letter from President, Hawthorne Works

Company background preceding introduction of Taylor's concept of scientific management with emphasis on output and efficiency in its illumination studies known as the Hawthorne Effect.

Effective HR Measurement Techniques
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Jeannette Swist wrote chapter on Measuring HR Value Through Benchmarking

Effective HR Measurement Techniques is a collection of essays by real HR Professionals expanding on various techniques for HR departments to measure and verify the value of their programs and participation within a company.  It offers advice and explanations of research methods including archival or hisorical studies, literature reviews, case studies, surveys, interviews, focus groups, and experiments.  It also addresses topics such as the difference between "good" and "bad" turnover, ethical dilemmas within human resources, and proposals of a new model of HR staffing and operations.

Managing Hidden Aspects of Change - Employee Attitude Survey

Addressing the Challenges of Executing Change

Help Wanted Talent Scouts

Benchmarking in Human Resources

Take a Peek Inside...

Conducting a Training Needs Assessment

Employee Benefits: Value and Impact
Cut back on benefits? This published article in the Association Forum of Chicagoland addresses what an HR Professional can do.

Read Employee Benefits

How to Pick the Best People and Keep Them, Potentials Magazine, November 2005.

Read How to Pick the Best People

Hurricane Katrina's Effect on the 4th Quarter Job Scene
Naperville Sun

Read: Hurricane Katrina's Effect on the 4th Quarter Job Scene

Destination: anywhere else
Stressed-out workers may hesitate to take vacations, but time away is essential, experts say.
Naperville Sun

Read Destination Anywhere Else

How to Set Staff Goals that Improve Performance
8 Ground Rules for Goals
How to Set the Goals
A Simple Follow-up Plan
The Payout
Law Office Administrator, Vol. XIII.No.12, December 2004

Read: Performance Goals

Benefit Communications: Measuring Impact and Value
This article published in the Employee Benefit Plan Review discusses - How - and how effectively - you communicate your benefits information is crucial to getting and keeping a committed workforce. Read on for ideas and case studies on inceasing the effectiveness of your organization's benefits communication program.

Read Benefits Communications