Des employés heureux sont vecteur de performance pour les sociétés : ils se soucient de la qualité de  leur travail, sont moins souvent absents, moins stressés et moins enclin au burnout. Mais est-ce que le bonheur au travail est réellement possible  lorsque l’entreprise ne se soucie pas de ses employés ou que le travail les mine? Bonne question.

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Plus de conseils dans “Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated and Successful – No Matter What”  du Prof. Srikumar Rao, créateur du CPM, Creative & Personal Mastery, qu’il enseigne entre autres à l’Université de Columbia et la London Business School.

Comment la fonction RH est-elle perçue par les salariés ? Voici la question à laquelle s’est attaqué le dernier sondage OpinionWay – LabRH mené auprès de 801 salariés français. Résultats? Les RH semblent mal connues et critiquées pour leur manque de communication et de pédagogie envers les collaborateurs de l’entreprise. Néanmoins les salariés des plus petites entreprises sont les plus satisfaits de la politique RH de leur entreprise:  deux tiers des salariés (69%) se disent satisfaits de la politique RH de leur entreprise contre 49% des salariés des grandes entreprises.

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Behind that veneer of workplace confidence, your co-workers and even your boss may harbor serious doubts about their closest relationships. That’s the finding of a groundbreaking study released today, The State of Friendship in America Report, 2013, which sheds new light on the dire social landscape facing adults across the country. Key findings include:

• Less than a quarter of Americans say they are truly satisfied with their friendships and almost two-thirds lack confidence in even their closest friends.
• Gen-Xers and Baby Boomers are hit hardest by the trend, indicating a “mid-life friendship slump.”
• Most Americans – by more than 2-to-1 – would prefer to have deeper friendships, rather than more friends.

The study’s authors have uncovered what they call a national “friendship crisis,” and they believe it has far reaching implications in the workplace. “Friendship is a major dynamic in people’s lives and nobody just leaves it back at home,” said Tim Walker, co-founder of Lifeboat, the group behind the report. ”We now have a scientific view of a very emotional struggle that adults report having as they try to connect with each other in the digital age.”

For managers, colleagues, marketers and HR professionals, it’s a very relevant question. Traditionalists argue that pals have no place at the office for a number of reasons. Friendship between colleagues can blur decision making, they say, making difficult decisions more complicated and leading to distractions or inappropriate behavior. How can someone operate in the best interest of the company if they’re also worried about a vital friendship – particularly when it comes to performance reviews or layoffs?

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Everyone seems to agree that generalist large scale job boards are in trouble, and others are profiting. The decline of the Monster share price to below five dollars, parallel to the success story of LinkedIn stock, and the recent valuation of Indeed.com nicely illustrates these shifting dynamics. Generalist job board revenue per posting is declining, and they are facing tough competition from smaller niche job boards, job aggregators, and social networks. Will job boards remain relevant in recruitment?

The main question is not whether job boards are relevant, but whether their search results are relevant for their users. Do job seekers find the job they want, and do employers find the candidates they need? It is a simple equation of attention andrelevance, and currently the competition happens to play a better card on both aspects.
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