The Monster 5 For Friday- Works Edition (Volume 12)

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Monster 5 For Friday, our weekly spotlight of the 5 articles we consider “must reads” for recruiting and talent professionals.

The headlines this week demonstrated the central tenet of employee relations: when it comes to rules, even the most minor infractions can carry major consequences.  From an obscure technicality costing Dustin Johnson a potential PGA championship to the continued fall out at HP over a falsified expense report to Ronnie’s nationally publicized arrest over unpaid parking tickets at the Jersey Shore, the news reminded us it might not be such a bad idea to dust off that employee handbook, after all.

Since what you don’t know can hurt you, you probably heard about these stories from the mainstream press, but here are this week’s top 5 articles from the world of work you might have missed.  Remember: pay close attention (or else).

The Monster 5 For Friday (8.14.10-8.20.10)

5. Just Because We Can, Doesn’t Mean We Should When it comes to being a true business partner, suggests Fistful of Talent’s Suzanne Rumsey, “sometimes, the greatest strategic value HR can bring to the table is by saving the business from itself.”

4. 5 Things Recruiters Should Stop Doing With hiring picking up, it’s back to business as usual for recruiters, writes Linda Brenner; unfortunately, that also means a return to inefficient talent acquisition tools and techniques.  Read this for some simple streamlining strategies from ERE.

3. The Benefits of Connecting Disengaged Employees By the time HR can identify a disengaged employee, argues Trish McFarlane, it’s often too late to turn the tide; as this HRRingleader post shows, effective engagement relies on an effective hiring process.

2. Anti-Social Recruiting Recruiting’s not about making connections on social networks, but about building relationships off them, writes Glen Cathey, and mastering this critical competency should come before experimenting with the next “bright shiny object.”  From Boolean Black Belt.

1. 6 Guidelines For Resolving Intergenerational Conflict With five generations in the workforce for the first time in history, intergenerational conflict in the workplace is nearly inevitable.  Writing for SmartBlog on Workforce, father-daughter co-authors Larry and Megan Johnson prove that with the right approach, however, different generations can co-exist (and co-write) working side-by-side.

For more good stuff, check out the Monster 5 for Friday: Careers  Edition for this week’s top articles from the world of job search and career development.

Which of these was your favorite?  What did we miss?  Let us know!

Related:

Monster 5 For Friday Volume 11 (8.7.10-8.13.10)

Monster 5 For Friday Volume 10 (7.31.10-8.6.10)

Monster 5 For Friday Volume 9 (7.24.10-7.30.10)

Monster 5 For Friday Volume 10 (7.31.10-8.6.10)

Monster 5 For Friday Volume 9 (7.24.10-7.30.10)

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