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This post contains a business metric improved by investing in employees for each of 20 small companies that Inc. Magazine named today as 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces Read More

Read this post, which sets up the case for small businesses to find opportunity in assisting efforts to stop the flow of oil and clean up the Gulf Coast, and then add your thoughts to a related question on LinkedIn Read More

Learn about 30 ways that finalist companies for Winning Workplaces' 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces award assess the payoff of employee engagement strategies in terms of revenue and profitability Read More

We're all familiar with the economic bubble that burst, bringing us into the current recession we're working to leave behind. But is another, internal workplace bubble building? This post addresses the "employee stress bubble" as revealed by a Manpower employee survey, and its implications on both large and small businesses Read More

This week the effectiveness of performance reviews came under fire in a New York Times blog. Yet this post, working on the assumption that these reviews can add value to an organization, contains 10 approaches that have been shown to increase worker productivity, especially in small businesses Read More

This post explores research which suggests that as company size increases, leaders should be more inclined to make decisions themselves as opposed to relying on team-based, consensus decision making for maximum business results Read More

While highly effective at spurring greater productivity, employee opinion surveys can be cost-prohibitive for some companies. A less expensive but still impactful approach to assess the workplace culture, as used by a successful Texas-based technology company, is described in this post Read More

Over a third of the finalists for Winning Workplaces' 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces award offer company-funded health savings accounts (HSAs) for their employees. Read about the five most common ways they contribute to HSAs Read More

Winning Workplaces has pushed back against claims in the media that Generation Y is greedy, arrogant, and entitled. But is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg -- perhaps the most famous GenY business leader -- representing these qualities through his leadership style? This post provides 3 exhibits that seem to point in that direction Read More

Succession planning tends to not be fully or effectively executed, yet it's incredibly important to a company's long-term prospects. This post contains links to 5 articles on the Winning Workplaces website that provide related guidance for leaders -- particularly those who run small businesses Read More