We recently surveyed HR professionals on a variety of spooky topics with our Second Annual HR Horrors Survey, and I wanted to share the results with you.

The Aug 25/Sept 1st issue of BusinessWeek is all about Office Life. I was checking out the magazines at my local bookstore only to see Dwight Schrute’s face staring back at me from the cover of this issue. Now that I’ve had a chance to read it from cover to cover, I wanted to share some of the highlights from this issue.

It seems like lately every time I open up a management or HR magazine, the topic of managing the generations is getting play. There’s no shortage of articles on why Gen Y has different expectations or why Gen X is so unhappy, and so on.

All this made me start thinking about how much of it is actually true, and to what extent do HR and/or managers have to actually deal with the issue?

I came across an interesting blog this week – YourHRGuy.com. According to his bio, Lance Haun is a 26 year old Human Resources Generalist practicing in the field for the past five years. His professional interests include recruitment, team building, training and development, employee relations and “restraining himself from beating the crap out of bad managers and employees.” In his blog, Lance talks a lot about what being a Gen Y-er means from [...]