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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.kenexa.com/ResourceCenter/ThoughtLeadership/Leadership-Enabling-Creativity-and-Innovation]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Leadership: Enabling Creativity and Innovation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Today&rsquo;s leaders may be educated, knowledgeable and experienced, but many are still struggling to keep their companies competitive in the current economic climate. Their expertise and scientific methods will not help them predict the future in our modern, ambiguous, complex and ever-evolving en...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:14:27 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Say-on-Pay: A Perspective on the Inaugural Vote and Expectations for Next Year]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Say-on-Pay advisory vote has become a focus for both executive compensation practitioners and organizations. Passed into law as part of the Dodd-Frank Act in early 2010, publicly traded companies now must seek a non-binding shareholder approval vote for executive compensation arrangements. Altho...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:23:44 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Boosting an Organization's Performance Through Increased Engagement]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The food and beverage industry was hit hard by the recession of 2009, and challenging economic conditions continued to impact the sector in the years following as shoppers remained budget conscious.

Yet chilled foods company Kerry Foods, a division of Kerry Group, continued to achieve solid growt...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:34:38 GMT</pubDate>
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.kenexa.com/ResourceCenter/ThoughtLeadership/Pay-for-Performance]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Pay for Performance...Are You Ready?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Imagine you have decided it is time to implement a pay-for-performance program at your organization. Salary increase budgets are small, and you have realized implementing such a program could help reinforce your performance culture, and it could help reward and retain top talent. Paying for performa...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:18:17 GMT</pubDate>
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.kenexa.com/ResourceCenter/WhitePapers/Recruiting-and-Selecting-Leaders-for-Innovation]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Recruiting and Selecting Leaders for Innovation: How to Find the Right Leader]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Recruiting and selecting effective leaders can often be a difficult challenge, especially in today&rsquo;s strained economic environment. In fact, May, Chan, Hodges and Avolio (2003) argued that when an economy is doing well, nearly any type of leader can emerge and be perceived as successful. In tr...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:52:47 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Payroll: Beyond the Tactical]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[If you&rsquo;re talking about payroll, you&rsquo;re talking about pay. In other words, payroll goes beyond the tactical execution of cutting paychecks. Effective payroll management reaches deep into your human resources department with a dataset that reflects your actual compensation practices. Limi...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:21:09 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Value of a Consensus Database]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Organizations with market focused policies and practices follow best practices to determine market rates. Without in-house knowledge of best practices for working with survey data, an organization must rely on a consulting house to do all of the survey analysis and aggregation. However, alternatives...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:29:22 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Do You Need a "Hot" Job to Get a Hot Salary?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The current economic malaise has been around for so long that anemic 9 percent unemployment rates and stagnant annual salary growth rates of 2 to 3 percent no longer surprise anyone.1 However, just as some jobs have been more severely impacted than others, Kenexa Compensation investigated if the con...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:55:53 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Top 10 Compensation Mistakes Made by Small Businesses]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Small businesses frequently fall into the trap of treating compensation programs as &ldquo;something to worry about when we get bigger.&rdquo; The fact is, small organizations need to attract, retain and motivate employees, and compensation is a critical piece of total rewards. Small organizations c...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:51:19 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Barriers to Effective Survey Follow-Up: Execution, Importance, Resources]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Most large companies today conduct regular employee surveys and use them as a key talent management measurement tool (Kraut, 2006, cited by Wiley, 2010). These survey programs typically are aimed at supporting the overall business strategy and, in particular, the human capital management strategy. T...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:11:51 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[What Makes a Leader Trustworthy?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[If you were compiling a list of the fundamental qualities you&rsquo;d expect to see in any leader, surely it would include personal integrity. Who would want to work for a leader who is not honest, ethical or reliable? If you did work for such a person, imagine how this would affect your level of en...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:14:24 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Trigger Happy: Evaluating Trends in Change-in-Control Payout Scenarios for CEOs]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[CEO departures dramatically increased and average tenure decreased during the economic recession, while corporate boards searched for ways to turn around poorly performing companies. These departures and associated change-in-control arrangements often trigger large post-employment payouts to the dep...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:46:10 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Employee Attitudes and Engagement]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As part of Kenexa Compensation&rsquo;s annual Compensation Outlook Survey, attitude questions were asked with the purpose of exploring HR&rsquo;s perception of engagement, pride, retention and other factors affecting human capital. This data was compared to a similar survey of attitudes of visitors ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:02:56 GMT</pubDate>
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.kenexa.com/ResourceCenter/ThoughtLeadership/The-Merit-Matrix]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[The Merit Matrix: An Effective Tool for Driving Pay for Performance]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Merit increases are a critical component of an organization&rsquo;s compensation program. Linking pay to performance sends the message that contribution is recognized and rewarded. This is not only good from an internal perspective, but it can make a company more desirable to high performing, prospe...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:24:58 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[When Does Leadership Become Organizational Development?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Much has been written about the importance of developing leaders to meet the challenges of the future. A wealth of material has also been produced on organizational development (OD) and how, by overcoming the barriers to effectiveness, it can improve an organization&rsquo;s overall performance. So w...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:02:59 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[HR: Selling Itself to Top Management Through Leadership]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The human resources industry and its leaders know the importance of being strategic and working toward influencing top management on people issues. At Kenexa, our experience providing support to a wide variety of HR functions during process implementation and structural changes has taught us a lot. ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:54:28 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Selection Innovations: 'Hiring for Fit']]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Over the last 10 years, assessment and selection techniques have become increasingly high-tech, transferring much of the work online and automating the sifting/testing components. This has increased the success rate in identifying talented individuals and has enabled scarce resources to be focused o...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:39:40 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Leadership Challenge: Delivering Optimal Results from HCM]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The evidence linking effective leadership to business performance is compelling. One large scale study conducted by the Kenexa High Performance Institute showed that organizations whose employees rate their leaders highly are many times more profitable than those whose employees rate their leaders l...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:33:45 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Surveying the Landscape or Driving Forward?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Many organizations conduct surveys to find out what their people think and feel. While such initiatives ostensibly exist to improve performance, the truth is that lip service is often paid to them. They are regarded in some quarters as merely &lsquo;box ticking&rsquo; exercises rather than a source ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:33:14 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Human Capital Management: The Transformation that Lies Ahead]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The occasion of the 100th issue of HC Magazine provides a timely opportunity to reflect on the enormous strides that Human Capital Management and Human Resources have made over the years&mdash;and to consider the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

Back in 2003, when HC Magazine started,...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:32:38 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Global Recruitment: Unity with Local Color]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Increasing numbers of Kenexa clients are asking us to work with them to implement a global approach to recruitment, assessment and selection. This is extremely exciting and offers a range of benefits&mdash;but what is driving this trend?

The movement to a global model is often a result of a recog...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:32:11 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Driving Real Change: Employee Surveys that Make a Difference]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Increasing numbers of Kenexa clients are working with us to implement employee surveys&mdash;looking at critical areas such as employee engagement, performance excellence, leadership/manager effectiveness and organizational culture. Given the clear evidence linking such factors to tangible business ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:31:48 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Women’s Leadership Program Drives Jaguar Land Rover Success]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Like many engineering organizations, Jaguar Land Rover struggled to attract and promote women in technical work,
even though they successfully retained women in general. In 2008, during a process of internal analysis, the company uncovered the stark reality of the situation.

Andrea Stallan, Dive...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:23:06 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Banking on Career Development for Women Managers at Barclays Capital]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC, employing over 25,000 people worldwide. With offices around the world, the company has the global reach, advisory services and distribution power to meet the needs of issuers and investors, and provide solutions to meet strate...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:18:03 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Developing Emotionally Intelligent Leaders]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Leaders often claim that &ldquo;Our people are our greatest asset.&rdquo; As companies aim to survive and thrive in the economic downturn, this claim is being challenged. Good leaders, however, recognize the value of having an engaged workforce. The real benefit of emotional intelligence is that it ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:43:53 GMT</pubDate>
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