Employee Engagement

Amid Job Losses, All Isn’t Lost

How the rising unemployment rate is hitting two key sectors and what industry experts and a preeminent economist say will happen next

July 10, 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. Read the Full Article >>
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Making Sense of China

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.

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