A report by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics has found that 12 percent of employed wage and salary workers were union members in 2006, down from 12. 5 percent in 2005.

In all, unions count

Sometimes a little pat on the back can go a long way.

A survey by staffing firm Accountemps found that frequent recognition is the most effective non-monetary way to motivate employees.

Accordin

A new survey has found that as many as 20 percent of government workers plan to leave their current positions by the end of this year.

The CareerBuilder.com study, which surveyed 116 government workers 18 and olde

A former Homeland Security employee has been awarded $2.5 million in federal court after claiming he was retaliated against for complaining of harassment and discrimination.

Ulysses Hudson was awarded the settleme

A large percentage of senior executives in the UK believe that having the freedom to fire a fixed number of staff every year would improve performance.

The study found that more than three-quarters of the 562 busin

The National Labor Relations Board is expected to hear arguments in a case about whether employees can use an employer's e-mail system to discuss union matters with other employees.

Unfair labor practice charges we

Wonderlic, Inc., today relased the latest version of its intelligence test, the Wonderlic Personnel Test.

Development of the new version, the WPT-R, required years of research, and thousands of field tests administ

While employee ratings of senior management shot upward earlier in the decade, those numbers dipped slightly in 2006, a survey by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a leading global consulting firm, has found.

Watson Wyat

The head of the U.S. nuclear security agency has been forced to resign over management and security issues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman asked for the resignation of Li

While the number of disgruntled executives is shrinking, companies can count on having to continue to struggle with retention, according to some new figures.

The percentage of executives who are unsatisfied wit

Dave Opton says in Six Figure Learnings today that while many people think of networking in the same vein as root ca

Tenure is one of the most significant landmarks in an academic career