Assessment & Performance

Mike Rickheim is the Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition for the international consumer products giant Newell Rubbermaid, which employs a global workforce of nearly 30,000 employees. He recently sat down with LatPro to discuss Newell Rubbermaid’s perspective on diversity recruiting and its future goals for Hispanic talent acquisition. Below is an excerpt of his interview, but you can read the entire interview here.

Mae A. Douglas is a Senior Vice President with Cox Communications and has served as the company’s Chief People Officer for 7 years. She recently spoke with LatPro about Cox Communications’ diversity goals, objectives, and strategy the critical role of Hispanic and Bilingual employees at the broadband communications and entertainment company. Below is an excerpt of her interview, but you can read the entire interview here.

Employers sometimes reward workers who quit smoking while others fire them if they can’t. To eliminate the drama, companies are beginning to shy away from hiring smokers at all.

More than half of the 50 states have made it illegal to discriminate against smokers who smoke on their own time.

Early returns indicated that social web sites focused heavily on the dangers of sharing personal information online.

Now, those same sites are responsible for helping professionals and companies network for business, career and job-search purposes. Employers have begun to increase their use of networking sites to seek and screen potential candidates.

Technology is often part of the conversation in the workplace. Sometimes it's because the company is moving toward new technologies, but not always.

Employees like to test-drive new techologies, but they don't always ask first. The question, do they have the right to try the new technologies without permission.

Generation Y has been told that they can have it all and they're making an effort to make that promise come true.

With the Baby Boom generation on the verge of mass retirement, the next generation will be swimming in opportunity in the coming years.

The throbbing pain associated with migraine headaches does not affect just one victim.

The dizziness, stiff neck and nausea also have a major impact on healthcare costs and the victim's productivity at work.

Allowing business casual as the dress code at work can be a nice benefit for employees. It can also create confusion for others.

While business casual is as much a staple of the office as using the Internet, more and more companies are attempting to enforce rules that set a minimum standard of dress.

It's not only the "Most Wonderful Time of the Year." It's also the time that people begin shopping online for holiday gifts - often at work.

This means it's also going to be time for small business owners to decide how much surfing is permissible on company time and what is excessive.

Anything not done in moderation can be counterproductive in the workplace. However, research has found that joking at work can have a positive effect.

In, "The Case for Developing New Research on Humor and Culture in Organizations: Toward a Higher Grade of Manure," researchers analyzed theories on humor, emotion and mood from hundreds of studies in the fields of psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and communications.