Here’s a Seminar Topic That Makes Me Cringe
When People Are Your Most Vital Assets
Especially when every trade mag I pick up is announcing new/expanded layoffs.
It’s a lie. People are an asset. Like most assets, sometimes you must choose to dispose of them. Hopefully you have gotten a good useful life from the asset, sometimes not.
But, please, employees are smart enough to see through this “most vital” label. Stockholders are the most vital asset. Keep the stockholders happy and life is good.
Keep the employees happy at the expense of the stockholders and watch out.
And every. industry. says. it. even when they announce layoffs.
H.R. Conference highlights: - (and my unauthorized cynical subtitles)
- Legal updates of current labor laws and looming legislation - (how to layoff people and not get sued)
- Medical costs controlled with consumer-driven health care plans - (how to reduce health care coverage costs)
- Union contract negotiations and the Employee Free Choice Act - (Unions? Are they still in newspapers?)
- Compensation costs and alternatives for allocating rewards. - (How to cut commissions and keep sales reps)
- Managing transition in our changing industry - (Feel better about “it’s either them or me.”)