A great company usually has a great board behind it, both supporting the CEO and helping move the company forward. Well-functioning boards set strategy, monitor risks, deal with succession planning and provide guidance when it comes to recruiting talent. So what makes a board highly effective? The answer to that question has changed dramatically in […]

By Jason Buss. The HR Metrics Center just launched a new on-line business service for human resource professionals. The web site provides an on-line capability for human resource professionals to build HR or human capital metrics for their organizations. The HR Metrics Center includes a dynamic on-line survey providing the ability for member organizations to […]

Chris Isidore, from CNNMoney.com today wrote about the overall outlook on jobs and the economy.  Economists predict the bottom isn’t here yet, and expect job losses and unemployment to rise through the first half of 2009. All five component indices in the CEO confidence index fell – current, future, business, investment and employment. Employment and […]