July
2008
10 July 2008
A surprise: Younger employees are less likely than their older counterparts to use online job search tools. Read about this and other findings from recent Gallup research on the many ways job seekers look for new work in the Internet age.
10 July 2008
With net sales of $6 billion in 2007 and with enough might and fame to attract knowledge workers, Stryker is a prominent company worldwide. Yet even this highly successful global business faced major hurdles in hiring talented software developers and engineers in India.
10 July 2008
“The unemployment rate shot up by half a percentage point in May, the biggest single-month increase in over twenty years,” notes Princeton economist Alan Krueger. The job cuts have hit the retail and financial services sectors particularly hard, and they illustrate problems in the economy in general. But they also point to opportunities for forward-thinking business leaders.
10 July 2008
The factors that motivate China’s executives and workers are no different from those that motivate any executive or any worker. So says Zhang Zhixue, an expert on Chinese business, who thinks Westerners are needlessly perplexed by China.
10 July 2008
Companies around the globe, such as Starbucks, Procter & Gamble, and Wal-Mart, are battling with the marketing challenges posed by a tough economy. What strategies work best for these global brands -- and why? A marketing expert tackles these questions.
