Bloomberg Businessweek, July 16, 2013, Tuesday

Bloomberg Businessweek

July 16, 2013, Tuesday

Bloomberg Businessweek (full article)

Why Joint Filing Is a Dinosaur

Take the women’s labor force participation rate. It fell sharply during the last recession, but it had stagnated well before the downturn. For example, in 1990 the U.S. women’s labor force participation rate was 74 percent, sixth-best in the world. Two decades later the figure had merely climbed to 75 percent and the U.S. rate ranked 22nd in the world, according to economists Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn of the ILR School at Cornell University.

Epoch Times, July 16, 2013, Tuesday

Epoch Times

July 16, 2013, Tuesday

Epoch Times (full article)

New Labor Law After Bangladesh Factory Collapse

Unfortunately Obama’s move packed very little punch because garments, Bangladesh’s main export, will not be affected by the change.

“It’s encouraging to see human rights become an integral part of our foreign policy. However, sometimes we are bolder in the promotion of human rights in cases where economic trade is not that significant,” said James Gross, professor at the Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History at Cornell University.

Education Week, July 9, 2013, Tuesday

Education Week

July 9, 2013, Tuesday

Education Week (full article)

From Health-Care Reform, Lessons for Education Policy

Management experts like MIT's Peter Senge and Cornell University's Sally Klingel, who have studied high-performing workplaces in a variety of sectors and reached conclusions in line with recent health-care and education research, believe that building trust and social capital in organizations is paramount.

KGO 810 News, July 2, 2013, Tuesday

KGO 810 News

July 2, 2013, Tuesday

KGO 810 News (radio interview)

BART Strike Day 2

KGO's Jason Middleton reports that public pressure could bring the BART strike to an end. He spoke with Ken Margolies, a labor history professor at Cornell University, who believes the strike can't last too long since it affects the public.

WorldatWork's workspan magazine, July 2013

WorldatWork's workspan magazine

July 2013

An monthly column in workspan® applying scholarly research to the "real world" by ICS Director Kevin Hallock.

Compensation Tournaments

Is performance better when pay only goes to the winner?

Talent Management, June 28, 2013, Friday

Talent Management

June 28, 2013, Friday

Talent Management (full article)

HR Can't Ignore Big Data

“This is a new frontier,” said Chris Collins, director for the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) and associate professor of human resource studies at Cornell. “It’s so easy to submit an application if there’s a job posting. So where there would be hundreds of candidates in the past, some of these companies now get thousands, especially with the job market being what it has been in recent years.”

Inc. Magazine, June 26, 2013, Wednesday

Inc. Magazine

June 26, 2013, Wednesday

Inc. Magazine (full article)

Leadership Without Presumption: Lessons From Eisenhower

By Samuel Bacharach

During World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower took a cruise around the Isle of Capri. On seeing a large villa, he asked about it and learned that it was to be his quarters. He inquired about the neighboring villa as well, and learned that it would soon belong to Army Air Force General Carl Spaatz.

Samuel Bacharach is a professor of labor management at Cornell and director of Cornell's Institute for Workplace Studies.

The New York Times, June 24, 2013, Monday

The New York Times

June 24, 2013, Monday

The New York Times (full article)

The Future of Fair Labor

By JEFFERSON COWIE

SEVENTY-FIVE years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act to give a policy backbone to his belief that goods that were not produced under “rudimentary standards of decency” should not be “allowed to pollute the channels of interstate trade."

Jefferson Cowie is a professor of labor history at Cornell and the author of “Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class.”