Articles by Donald Jacobson

Worried about surviving the recession with your career intact? Here are some tips for holding onto your job (or finding a new one).

Need short-term management help? Right now, you can have your pick of highly qualified professionals who are looking for something to tide them over until the job market picks up.

With wave upon wave of layoffs hitting the workforce each week, these are brutal times on the employment front.

Rather than laying off workers and rehiring when business picks up, some companies have concluded there's a better approach.

If you are in mid-career or later, the next generation of managers is right behind you. And now it's your turn to identify the talented up-and-comers on your staff who can support you now and step into your shoes when the time comes.

Workplace bullies are just grownup versions of the playground bully people who use their social or political power to subject their victims to psychological abuse.

You may never be able to get buy-in from 100 percent of your staff, but there are some things you can do to make them more receptive to training.

The way you choose to present a training program could have a lot of bearing on how much of the material your audience absorbs and retains.

What follows are some of the questions you'll need to consider when setting up a training session.

Human resources management is more art than science, but there are some ways to "quantify" a job applicant's potential value to the company.