by Warren Bobrow | Jan 15, 2019 | Legal Issues, Training and Development
I’ve written quite a bit about bias in this blog. It is an important topic to me because I believe that people in HR and industrial psychology can be gatekeepers to a more fair society while improving organizational performance. Of course, bias in employment is merely...
by Warren Bobrow | Aug 7, 2018 | Pre-Employment Test Validation, Recruitment, Test Validation, Training and Development
As the economy adds new jobs, some sectors are having a problem finding enough workers for them, including construction. This is regardless of the pay and benefits associated with the jobs. However, the same is true in other blue-collar sectors. This is not a shock to...
by Warren Bobrow | May 24, 2017 | Employee Engagement, Performance, Recruitment, Talent Management, Training and Development
The state of California and several of its cities have been on the forefront of raising the minimum wage. The arguments for (people cannot live on the current minimum wage) and against (it will cost jobs because business will need to lay people off) it are familiar. ...
by Warren Bobrow | May 12, 2017 | Performance, Recruitment, Training and Development
In any employment market there are going to be jobs in high demand and those that go unfilled. In our tech driven economy, the jobs that are hard to recruit for range from utility lineman (long hours, hard work, and fabulous pay) and, strangely enough, cyber...
by Warren Bobrow | Dec 8, 2016 | Assessment Centers, Leadership, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Training and Development
I cannot tell you how many times I have worked with a client who has told me some sort of story about how they promote from within, but have a problem with the supervisors and/or managers not being able to let go of wanting to do the technical work instead of managing...
by Warren Bobrow | Nov 25, 2015 | Employee Engagement, Leadership, Performance, Training and Development
Organizational development specialists always tell us that change is difficult. They say that people are resistant to new things, are too comfortable in existing processes, and that we really need to be pushed or coddled to leap into the new. Others feel that change...
