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Gaps between the skills workers have, and the skills companies need, are impacting recruitment, productivity and morale. By understanding where the gaps are, and what causes them, you can avoid [...]

The Russians are looking to the West for ideas, but old habits die hard. It was a moment impossible to replicate, impossible to anticipate. I was sitting at a long [...]

The increasing availability of skilled temporary employees has presented human resources (HR) professionals and line managers with an expanded range of options to consider in solving staffing problems in the 1990s. The steps HR professionals may have to take to introduce the concept of hiring skilled temporary employees include dispelling myths about temporary workers among line managers; including segments of flexible staffing in orientation sessions for new managers; and including segments on mixing permanent and temporary employees in quarterly education sessions for senior management.

Unlike the U.S., many countries in Western Europe restrict or even ban the use of temporary workers. But a growing acceptance of temporary hiring practices throughout the European Community (EC) [...]