Data suggest that office holiday parties are making a bit of a comeback. Though not always grand in scale, the office party’s return is generally met with smiles by employees. Here are six tips to steer clear of office-party danger and make the experience a good one for you and your coworkers.
If your company does business overseas, you are about to feel the rapidly rising influence of the Asian consumer. Is your company prepared for this economic shift?
More workers are asking for benefits such as flexible work schedules and flexible work locations. Two recent surveys, and a shift in UK governmental policy, highlight the trend toward giving employees more of what they want. This results in higher levels of employee engagement and retention.
Business productivity may be suffering as employees eager to capitalize on online bargains shop on their office computers. Technology can help battle this productivity loss, but companies may have to be prepared for small losses of efficiency as a result of online holiday shopping.
Olivia Kirtley, CPA, CGMA, a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ governing Council and former chairwoman of the AICPA board of directors, has been named deputy president on the board of the International Federation of Accountants, a global organization dedicated to strengthening the accounting profession. Her term
Finding and retaining the right talent hinges on five challenges companies must address, according to a new Ernst & Young report. Find out what high-performing companies are doing right and what they could do better.
A bad hire can destroy employees’ morale and waste managers’ valuable time. To avoid a bad hire, consider how the candidate fits in with the team in addition to technical proficiency.
In the past year, CFOs worldwide have become less optimistic about the future success of their companies’ international expansion plans, a survey found. Discover which seven countries best meet their reduced risk appetite.
Controllers have some of the skills needed to become financial directors, but they need to adjust their detail-oriented focus to a broader, more strategic way of thinking. Here are key ways controllers can make themselves FD-worthy.
Harvard Professor and Balanced Scorecard co-founder Robert Kaplan has applied his performance measurement expertise to the US healthcare system. See what problems he has found and what solutions he recommends.
Companies that became leaner during the financial crisis and are struggling to stimulate growth may still need to create value through increased productivity. But the challenge is raising productivity without squeezing workers who are already doing more with less.
Charles Tilley, FCMA, CGMA, meets with Richard Solomons, the CFO-turned-chief executive of InterContinental Hotels Group, who offers insight on brands, people and delivery.
To establish footholds in emerging markets, companies are sending more and more employees overseas, but many of their global mobility teams are ill-prepared for the financial and compliance risks that accompany such deployments.
The study, which analysed data from 128 countries, quantifies the costs of gender inequality to a country’s economy and scores countries based on the effectiveness of their efforts to empower women.
The likelihood of employees changing jobs in the next six months continues to rise, and the skills of employees frequently do not match job requirements in emerging countries, a new survey shows.
Interviews leave job-seekers in the UK at a loss for words. About two-thirds of job-seekers said their biggest fear before an interview was not knowing the answer to interview questions. Even with preparation, job-seekers still worried, according to a new survey.
As average number of employee absences falls by almost a day, other workforce issues are taking hold globally. More workers are showing up to work ill, likely caused by concern over job security, research shows. The effect of “presenteeism” is a less-productive and more stressed workforce.
A string of bribery scandals and stricter enforcement of foreign and domestic anti-corruption laws is slowly raising awareness among Australian and New Zealand companies doing business abroad that they are at risk. But many remain in total denial, according to a Deloitte survey.
A simple approach to performance-based compensation calls for giving employees a limited number of goals linked to a firm’s strategy and basing their bonuses on the extent to which those goals are achieved. The compensation system calls for owners as well as employees to have their bonuses linked to performance.
Companies are overhauling their business strategies to adjust to the rise of emerging markets, new research shows. But demographic trends will add new challenges over the next five to ten years, specifically in talent management.
