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Reports: Oracle to Buy Taleo for $1.9 Billion
Oracle Corp. said it will buy Web-based recruitment software maker Taleo Corp. for about $1.9 billion, according to multiple media reports, including Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. The deal will allow Oracle to expand its line of cloud compu…
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Creating an Achievement Culture
Morningside Academy in Seattle is a behaviorally-based laboratory school for elementary and middle school students who have academic problems. Students get a report card every day. While many would think that impractical, Morningside teachers do it a…
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All Onboard: The First Six Months
As an adolescent growing up in the mid-to-late 1990s, I had two favorite television sitcoms: “Seinfeld” and “Friends.” Both shows left an iconic footprint on American popular culture, and both always seemed to have that one episode where it did no…
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Lack of ‘Churn’ Still a Barrier for New Workers
Here’s an interesting little nugget for recruiters and talent managers keeping a close eye on the job market. Even as the U.S. job market has finally begun to show sustained signs of life, growing stronger by nearly every measure, there is still one…
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Coca-Cola’s Thirst for Global Talent
Coca-Cola’s Chief People Officer Ceree Eberly creates a sweet talent spot at the intersection between the strategies to retain and motivate people and global business needs.
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How to Build a Values-Based HR Plan
I spent 20 years working in the Coca-Cola system, mostly as head of HR for Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE), the mega-bottler. Coca-Cola Enterprises makes – you guessed it – Coca-Cola. Then it puts it in bottles and cans, warehouses those bottles and cans…
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Evolution of the Engagement Survey
For some organizations, the extent of employee engagement programs is limited to the annual engagement survey. That model, featuring a survey filled with scores of questions and sent out for the entire organization to complete, needs to be updated.
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The Rules of Engagement
New challenges require talent managers to re-examine what matters to employees and partner with executives to create engagement programs that drive results.












