Employee Engagement Publications

2013

1. Helping Millenials Help You: Managing Your Young Workforce
   

   May 2013 | Executive Action Report

   By 2020, baby boomers and generation X will be far outnumbered by their millennial counterparts in the workplace, who will soon be in the same seats their managers now occupy. What are companies doing today to prepare these future leaders?

2. 2013 Executive Coaching Conference KeyNotes Report
   

   May 2013 | Conference KeyNotes

   If companies truly want leverage their human capital to grow their organizations, they should consider coaching employees at all levels.

3. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Employee Engagement (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2013)
   

   April 2013 | Human Capital in Review

   This publication is designed for the busy human capital executive who values selected and thoughtfully summarized article reviews of what is happening in the area of employee engagement.

4. Globalization Revisited: Who Will Get the New Wave of Knowledge Process Jobs?
   

   April 2013 | Executive Action Report

   Offshoring is no longer the best or the only answer for management of knowledge process jobs, and many companies are investigating nearshore and onshore alternatives as the global competition for knowledge jobs intensifies.

5. Workspace: Face-to-Face Fallacies
   

   April 2013 | The Conference Board Review

   Columnist Alison Maitland looks critically at workplace strategies of Google and Yahoo!, calling them "retrograde attitudes from Internet giants."

6. 2012 Future Leaders Conference KeyNotes Report
   

   April 2013 | Conference KeyNotes

   Building Tomorrow’s Leaders Today

7. On the Record with Dr. Loren Skeist
   

   April 2013 | Executive Action Report

   The Conference Board interviews the president of Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp., a mid-market industry leader in high-voltage design and manufacturing, about the 2013 results of The Conference Board CEO Challenge®.

8. Happiness Premium: What Companies Should Know about Leveraging Happiness in the Workplace
   

   March 2013 | Executive Action Report

   A focus on employee happiness makes for a holistic approach to the idea of contentment in the workplace, and can greatly influence company performance overall.

9. 2013 Talent Management Strategies Conference KeyNotes Report
   

   March 2013 | Conference KeyNotes

   Innovating Talent Solutions to Deliver Results

10. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Talent Management (Vol. 3, No. 1, 2013)
    

    March 2013 | Human Capital in Review

    This publication is designed for the busy human capital executive who values selected and thoughtfully summarized article reviews of what is happening in the area of talent management.

11. Riding the Reform Innovation Wave: Implications for Health Care Organizations and Their CHROs
    

    March 2013 | Executive Action Report

    As the health care sector undergoes enormous transformational change in all aspects of operations, chief human resources officers must embrace the change and communicate it to their workforce, as they make up more than half the sector's expenditures.

12. 2012 Onboarding Leadership Conference KeyNotes Report
    

    March 2013 | Conference KeyNotes

    Facilitating Transition, Driving Performance and Engagement

13. Building an Effective Product Stewardship and Regulatory Affairs Organization
    

    January 2013 | Council Perspectives

    PSRA has expanded from narrowly managing compliance to enabling the business to pursue new products and markets, driving the need for additional skills in the function.

14. 2012 Executive Compensation Conference KeyNotes Report
    

    January 2013 | Conference KeyNotes

    Paying for Performance Alignment

15. Addressing the Talent Shortage in China and India: Leveraging Women in the Workforce
    

    January 2013 | Executive Action Report

    The dearth of high-skilled workers is a human capital challenge in India and China, where women are largely underutilized in the workforce. Leveraging women in these labor markets is essential to resolve this shortage and promote economic growth.

16. Is It Up to Business to Solve the Toughest Problems?
    

    January 2013 | The Conference Board Review

    Companies, argues benefits consultant Jennifer Benz, need to shoulder some of the responsibility for workers' struggles with obesity and financial insecurity.

17. Main Skill Your HR Chief Lacks
    

    January 2013 | The Conference Board Review

    Recruiting is exactly the kind of experience that every chief of HR needs to understand the stakes of doing HR wrong.

18. Part-Time Executive
    

    January 2013 | The Conference Board Review

    Many top executives, particularly in Europe, are working less and accomplishing more.

19. Pay Problem: It's not that we pay CEOs too much—it's that we pay everyone else too little.
    

    January 2013 | The Conference Board Review

    High CEO pay still gets all the attention, but it's no longer a problem that demands immediate fixing. What companies need to address is how they compensate everyone else.

20. Why Be Happy? Instead of attaching smiley emoticons to every moment of our lives, Oliver Burkeman suggests, we should welcome more negativity.
    

    January 2013 | The Conference Board Review

    Q&A with social critic Oliver Burkeman about the perils of positive thinking, in and out of the workplace.

21. Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2013 Summary Report: Countering the Global Slowdown
    

    January 2013 | CEO Challenge®

    Respondents to the latest edition of the annual survey of business leaders by The Conference Board indicate a focus on internal challenges.

2012

1. Executive Coaching Survey: 2012 Edition
   

   December 2012 | Research Report

   This report presents an in-depth look at both internal and external coaching practices.

2. 2012 Succession Management Conference KeyNotes Report
   

   December 2012 | Conference KeyNotes

   Raising the Stakes: Anticipating and Removing Barriers to Building High-Quality Leadership Pipelines

3. Employee Engagement: What Works Now?
   

   December 2012 | Research Report

   Even when organizations commit to achieving a high level of employee engagement, the goal can be elusive. This report examines the current state of employee engagement practices to discover how companies, even in challenging environments, find success.

4. Achieving Pay for Performance
   

   December 2012 | Director Notes

   This report discusses the three dimensions of pay for performance, demonstrates how to measure them using historical pay data, and presents a simple pay plan that achieves perfect pay for performance using annual grants of performance shares.

5. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Talent Management (Vol. 2, No. 3, 2012)
   

   November 2012 | Human Capital in Review

   This publication is designed for the busy human capital executive who values selected and thoughtfully summarized article reviews of what is happening in the area of talent management.

6. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Employee Engagement (Vol. 1, No. 3, 2012)
   

   November 2012 | Human Capital in Review

   This publication is designed for the busy human capital executive who values selected and thoughtfully summarized article reviews of what is happening in the area of employee engagement.

7. 2012 Executive Compensation Conference KeyNotes Report
   

   October 2012 | Conference KeyNotes

   Navigating the Management/Shareholder Partnership: Making Performance Really Matter

8. State of Human Capital 2012: False Summit
   

   October 2012 | Research Report

   This report is the result of a joint research effort by The Conference Board and McKinsey & Company to highlight the most significant challenges facing human capital executives.

9. HR: You're Doing It Wrong: Your Colleague Smells Bad. And?
   

   October 2012 | The Conference Board Review

   Columnist Laurie Ruettimann examines HR's role in defusing uncomfortable workplace situations.

10. Let Your People Go
    

    October 2012 | The Conference Board Review

    Our thinking about employee retention is too often simplistic and narrow.

11. Think Different? Real diversity means getting past groupthink.
    

    October 2012 | The Conference Board Review

    How is it possible that organizations have achieved outward diversity but not diversity of thought? This article explains.

12. Talent Management Tomorrow: Seeing Around the Corner to Meet Strategic Business Needs
    

    September 2012 | Council Perspectives

    This report, the work of eight councils of The Conference Board worldwide in the area of talent management, assesses the current state of the function and then “peeks around the corner” to see what challenges lie ahead.

13. CEO Challenge Reflections: Human Capital Practitioners Respond
    

    September 2012 | Executive Action Report

    This report compares the responses of human capital professionals to the human capital strategies cited by 370 CEOs that ranked human capital as one of their top three challenges in The Conference Board CEO Challenge 2012.

14. Board Asia Newsletter
    

    September 2012 | Periodical

    Quarter Three 2012

15. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Talent Management (Vol. 2, No. 2, 2012)
    

    August 2012 | Human Capital in Review

    This publication is designed for the busy human capital executive who values selected and thoughtfully summarized article reviews of what is happening in the area of talent management.

16. U.S. Top Executive Compensation Report: 2012 Edition
    

    August 2012 | Research Report

    This report examines salary and compensation for the CEO and top executives of 2,411 publicly traded companies in the United States in 2011.

17. Women’s Leadership Conference KeyNotes Report
    

    August 2012 | Conference KeyNotes

    Advancement Strategies—What We Have, and What We Need: Much of the potential of women’s talent is unrealized, and creating the conditions to unlock this potential remains a challenge.

18. Human Capital Challenges in Asia-Pacific 2011-2013: Driving Employee Engagement with Communication and Work-Life Balance
    

    July 2012 | Executive Action Report

    Companies that survey and measure employee engagement—and communicate organizational actions and results from senior leadership—are managing employee engagement effectively.

19. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Employee Engagement (Vol. 1, No. 2, 2012)
    

    July 2012 | Human Capital in Review

    The Human Capital in Review series is designed for the busy human capital executive who values filtered and thoughtfully summarized highlights of significant ideas, topics, research, and trends in employee engagement.

20. 2012 Leadership Development Conference KeyNotes Report
    

    July 2012 | Conference KeyNotes

    What's Next? Hardwiring Leadership Development to Future Business Needs

21. Disconnect: The company you think you're running is not the company for which your people work.
    

    July 2012 | The Conference Board Review

    CEOs rarely know much about how work actually gets done below the C-suite level.

22. HR: You're Doing It Wrong: Jones vs. Anastasijevic
    

    July 2012 | The Conference Board Review

    Columnist Laurie Ruettimann explains how people with difficult last names have a harder time getting hired and promoted.

23. Mistreatment: No organization tolerates bullying, so why do so many workers continue to feel abused?
    

    July 2012 | The Conference Board Review

    Bosses have tormented workers ever since there were workers to torment, but only recently have we become sensitized to what studies indicate is four times more common than sexual harassment.

24. Openers: Metrics and Micromanagement
    

    July 2012 | The Conference Board Review

    Empathy—really understanding life on the front lines—may be the only way to change a culture of micromanagement. Executives who understand the real impact of constant assessment might think twice before adding to everyone else’s to-do list.

25. Workspace: The Five Types of Trust
    

    July 2012 | The Conference Board Review

    Columnist Alison Maitland explains how senior leaders can build credibility within and without organizations.

26. Board Asia Newsletter
    

    July 2012 | Periodical

    Quarter Two 2012

27. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Talent Management (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2012)
    

    June 2012 | Human Capital in Review

    This publication is designed for the busy human capital executive who values selected and thoughtfully summarized article reviews of what is happening in the area of talent management.

28. Job Satisfaction: 2012 Edition
    

    June 2012 | Research Report

    Respondents to the 2011 version of The Conference Board Job Satisfaction Survey indicated higher levels of job satisfaction for the first time since the recession began in 2008.

29. Human Capital Challenges in Asia-Pacific, 2012–2013: Leadership Development and Succession Planning for the Global Leader
    

    June 2012 | Executive Action Report

    A closer look at the strategies effective companies use for leadership development and succession planning.

30. 2012 Executive Coaching Conference KeyNotes Report
    

    June 2012 | Conference KeyNotes

    Cost-Effective and Business-Minded Approaches to Coaching

31. Employee Health Care Conference KeyNotes Report
    

    June 2012 | Conference KeyNotes

    Embracing a New Era: The Spectrum of Opportunity

32. Senior HR Executive Conference KeyNotes Report
    

    June 2012 | Conference KeyNotes

    The Future of Work: Growth, Innovation, and People

33. Incredible Disappearing Office: Making Telework Work
    

    May 2012 | Research Report

    Analyzing data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and culling current research in the field, this study delves into teleworking in the United States to uncover current trends.

34. Fostering Retirement and Financial Security in an Era of Individual Responsibility
    

    May 2012 | Executive Action Report

    Individuals must assume more responsibility for the adequate funding of their retirement years. Enlightened companies are providing their employees with tools to help.

35. Flattened
    

    April 2012 | The Conference Board Review

    We ask too much of middle managers; they deserve acknowledgment, respect, and relief.

36. HR: You're Doing It Wrong: Criminal, Past
    

    April 2012 | The Conference Board Review

    TCB Review columnist Laurie Ruettimann observes that as many as a third of young workers have low-level criminal records—and she urges HR people to overlook those transgressions.

37. Human Capital Challenges in Asia-Pacific 2011-2013: Aligning Employee Learning and Development with Performance Management
    

    March 2012 | Executive Action Report

    A survey of human capital professionals in nine countries in Asia-Pacific identified learning and development and performance management as two of the most significant human capital challenges in the region. This report discusses how to address them.

38. Human Capital Challenges in Asia-Pacific 2011-2013: Strong Brands and Clear Career Paths Help Companies Run the Talent Race
    

    March 2012 | Executive Action Report

    Strong corporate branding and clear career paths for employees help companies to hire and keep talent in Asia-Pacific.

39. Conference Board CEO Challenge^® 2012: Risky Business—Focusing on Innovation and Talent in a Volatile World
    

    March 2012 | CEO Challenge®

    This year’s top challenges show a balance between concerns related to the macro business environment and company-specific challenges that are driven by management action and require a well-executed business strategy.

40. 2012 Talent Management Strategies Conference KeyNotes Report
    

    March 2012 | Conference KeyNotes

    New Tools and Approaches to Meet Future Talent Needs

41. Prioritizing Your Corporate University’s Development
    

    February 2012 | Executive Action Report

    An effective corporate university program can provide a competitive advantage.

42. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Employee Engagement (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012)
    

    February 2012 | Human Capital in Review

    The Human Capital in Review series is designed for the busy human capital executive who values filtered and thoughtfully summarized highlights of significant ideas, topics, research, and trends in employee engagement.

43. 2011 Human Capital Metrics Conference KeyNotes Report
    

    February 2012 | Conference KeyNotes

    Using statistical, predictive analysis of its human capital is key to helping it create business strategy and make investment decisions.

44. A Perfect Storm: Europe’s Looming Pension Crisis
    

    January 2012 | Executive Action Report

    Europe’s pension crisis stems from three trends: benefits that are no longer supported by employee contributions, the recent recession, and Europe’s aging population.

45. 2011 Succession Management Conference KeyNotes Report
    

    January 2012 | Conference KeyNotes

    The 2011 Succession Management Conference: Breaking Through Barriers to Achieve the True Potential of Succession Management

46. A New Order: When revamping your corporate culture, the first rule is to have fewer rules
    

    January 2012 | The Conference Board Review

    To remain competitive, companies need to make the shift from “manager knows best” to “manager provides the tools and objectives and leaves people to achieve the results.”

47. American Pastoral
    

    January 2012 | The Conference Board Review

    When companies needed more space, they moved to the suburbs, placing headquarters and R&D facilities in office parks and on lush campuses. But as Louise Mozingo explains, we’re all paying a price now.

48. Priorities vs. Time: How to regain control of your schedule—and your flow of information
    

    January 2012 | The Conference Board Review

    No strategy will add hours to the workweek or the ability to work 24/7, and you can’t just offload half your key decisions to someone else. But the chances of success improve greatly with some rethinking of use of time and priorities.

49. Unfair Business Practices
    

    January 2012 | The Conference Board Review

    Perks are extremely visible indicators of who gets and who doesn’t—and how you distribute them can change the entire corporate culture.

50. “Zionist Jews Need to Be Run Out of This Country!” When an employee makes this remark outside of the office, what should a company do?
    

    January 2012 | The Conference Board Review

    YouTube, cable news, and Internet message boards are making it easy for proudly ignorant people to go public with conspiracy theories and racist rants—and they are making life difficult for corporate HR reps who just want everyone to get along.

2011

1. 2011 Executive Coaching Summit KeyNotes Report
   

   December 2011 | Conference KeyNotes

   The 2011 Executive Coaching Summit: The Presenters Are Legendary; The Lessons Are Leading-Edge

2. 2011 Future Leaders Conference KeyNotes Report
   

   December 2011 | Conference KeyNotes

   The 2011 Future Leaders Conference: Rethinking How We Attract, Identify, and Develop High Potential and Next Generation Leadership Talent

3. A Hero Lies in You: CEOs Talk about Heroes and Mentors
   

   November 2011 | Executive Action Report

   A series of interviews related to The Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2011 makes clear what is highest on the minds of CEOs. Here, they talk about the leaders who have inspired them—and who have served as cautionary figures.

4. Conference Board Human Capital in Review: Focus on Talent Management (Vol. 1, No. 2, 2011)
   

   November 2011 | Human Capital in Review

   The Human Capital in Review series is designed for the busy human capital executive who values filtered and thoughtfully summarized highlights of significant ideas, topics, research, and trends in talent management.

5. Assessing Pay for Performance
   

   October 2011 | Director Notes

   This report explores five interpretations of the “pay for performance” concept, presents a practical way to measure it, and offers questions for directors to consider to assess and improve pay for performance at their company.

6. CEO Challenge Reflections: Talent Matters
   

   October 2011 | Executive Action Report

   While CEOs rank talent as a critical challenge to business success, there is disagreement among human capital professionals when it comes to the strategies that best manage and develop this crucial link in the growth chain.

7. Human Capital in Asia-Pacific, 2011-2013
   

   October 2011 | Executive Action Report

   Rapid growth in the Asia-Pacific region means that companies there are facing challenges in leadership development, talent acquisition, and retention.

8. A Closer Look: Reassessing executives' value in a changing economy
   

   October 2011 | The Conference Board Review

   In this rocky economic landscape, those responsible for assessing and valuing C-suite talent are assessing candidates with fresh eyes.

9. Are You Too Young—or Too Old—to Be a CEO?
   

   October 2011 | The Conference Board Review

   When looking for a new top executive, the assumption that direct prior experience in a comparable role is a prerequisite to success is just that—an assumption. It’s natural to first look for the obvious candidate, but evidence shows no advantage.

10. No More Year in Paris?
    

    October 2011 | The Conference Board Review

    In today's corporate world, the traditional long-term international assignment is irrelevant.

11. Workspace: 9 to 5 is so last century
    

    October 2011 | The Conference Board Review

    Columnist Alison Maitland argues that today's flexible work arrangements should not be mere employee perks.

12. Volunteering- A New Training and Transition Tool
    

    September 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Challenging times call for companies of all sizes to be more creative about how they do business, and how they inspire and motivate their employees.

13. On the Record with Stephanie Hickman Boyse
    

    August 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Following The Conference Board CEO Challenge survey, a number of CEOs volunteered to go “on the record” with The Conference Board to share their thoughts and challenges in more depth. This is a Q&A with the CEO of Michigan-based Brazeway.

14. Employee Engagement in a VUCA World: A Review of Current Research and Its Implications
    

    July 2011 | Research Report

    This report combines analysis of some of the most important employee engagement research of today and puts it into perspective for members.

15. What About the Rest of Us? Beyond CEO pay
    

    July 2011 | The Conference Board Review

    When it comes to pay, CEO pay gets the lion's share of attention. How we pay all the other corporate executives says much more about issues of compensation.

16. Workspace: Unconscious Biases
    

    July 2011 | The Conference Board Review

    Columnist Alison Maitland asks: How do you get senior executives to address the impact of their unconscious biases?

17. It’s about Trust and Training: Examining Your Organization’s Internal Coaching Practice
    

    June 2011 | Executive Action Report

    This report discusses ways in which an internal coaching program can provide a cost-effective approach for developing talent, as well as the potential obstacles to success posed by issues of training and trust.

18. U.S. Salary Increase Budgets for 2012
    

    June 2011 | Research Report

    The latest edition of The Conference Board survey of U.S. salary increase budgets found that these budgets will have a median increase of 3.00 percent in 2011.

19. Conference Board Human Capital in Review: Focus on Talent Management (Vol. 1, No. 1 2011)
    

    June 2011 | Human Capital in Review

    This quarterly publication includes short summaries of important talent management research and articles for the busy human capital executive.

20. Sleepless in Delhi: What Keeps Indian HR Executives Awake at Night?
    

    June 2011 | Executive Action Report

    India presents unique business challenges, challenges that a number of human resource executives in India were happy to discuss with The Conference Board.

21. It's Not Just Your Children's Facebook Anymore
    

    May 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Companies that use social media to improve knowledge transfer will see employees benefit from more informed thinking, better ideas, and big steps forward in innovation.

22. HR in Asia: Priorities in Compensation and Benefits
    

    April 2011 | Council Perspectives

    Global, standardized compensation and benefit programs help companies achieve consistency and convenience. But companies must strike a balance by delivering programs that are also responsive to the varying needs of their far-flung business units.

23. 27 at Heart: Why Gen Yers shouldn’t write off their boomer co-workers.
    

    April 2011 | The Conference Board Review

    Gen Yers need to get used to the idea of working with a whole lot of people who could be their parents or even grandparents.

24. Worst Part of the Job
    

    April 2011 | The Conference Board Review

    No one wants to fire people. That's why managers do it so badly.

2010

1. 2010 U.S. Top Executive Compensation Report
   

   November 2010 | Research Report

   This report examines salary, total cash compensation, total compensation, and the mix of compensation elements for the CEO and the five highest-paid executives for specific revenue and industry groups.

2. 2010 U.S. Top Executive Compensation Report
   

   November 2010 | Key Findings

   This report examines salary, total cash compensation, total compensation, and the mix of compensation elements for the CEO and the five highest-paid executives for specific revenue and industry groups.

3. Time to Step Up: Challenges and Opportunities Facing Talent Management
   

   November 2010 | Council Perspectives

   This report looks at the opportunities and challenges facing the future of talent management and addresses four basic concerns that go the heart of the talent management function's future.

4. A Strategic Approach to Growing Talent for Succession
   

   November 2010 | Executive Action Report

   This report describes the fundamentals of a successful GTFS (growing talent for succession) culture, and the basic questions companies must ask as they initiate a GTFS plan.

5. Growing Talent for Succession
   

   October 2010 | Research Report

   This report is a playbook that explains how every business can lay the foundation for a growing talent (GT) plan.

6. Treating Contingent Workers as a Strategic Resource
   

   September 2010 | Executive Action Report

   While the use of temporary help of all kinds has increased, many companies do not have a centralized framework to make the most cost-efficient and strategic use of this new workforce.

7. Goals and Incentives for a New Day
   

   August 2010 | Executive Action Report

   With resources scarce and the future uncertain, small and midsize companies are taking advantage of the business lull in 2010 to reset their goals and incentive-reward systems.

8. Setting Strategy for Pensions in the U.S. — Tough Choices and No Easy Answers
   

   July 2010 | Executive Action Report

   This report, based on discussions at The Conference Board Retirement Roundtable “Sharing Responsibility for Assuring Long-Term Retirement Security” looks at the factors influencing benefit decisions, examines the challenge of making individual responsibil

9. Is Age Really Just a Number? Investigating Approaches to Employee Engagement
   

   July 2010 | Research Report

   Regardless of whether there are too few people or too few jobs, one thing doesn’t change: the need to recruit and retain talent that distinguishes an organization.

10. Is Age Really Just a Number? Investigating Approaches to Employee Engagement
    

    July 2010 | Key Findings

    Regardless of whether there are too few people or too few jobs, one thing doesn’t change: the need to recruit and retain talent that distinguishes an organization.

11. U.S. Salary Increase Budgets for 2011
    

    July 2010 | Research Report

    U.S. salary increase budgets remain historically low—for the second straight year the median increase is 2.5 percent.

12. Financial Services Offshoring: Moving Toward Fewer Captives and Global Cost Competitiveness
    

    March 2010 | Executive Action Report

    Financial services companies show greater interest than other sectors in contracting with large international providers and becoming more cost competitive by moving operations to lower labor cost locations

13. 2010 Executive Coaching Survey
    

    March 2010 | Research Report

    This survey by The Conference Board Council on Executive Coaching focuses on external coaching practices as well as the growing use of internal coaching

2009

1. A Global Barometer for Measuring Employee Engagement
   

   December 2009 | Research Report

   This report shows that a robust measure of employee engagement can be constructed with just eight basic questions—termed The Conference Board Employee Engagement Barometer.™

2. Impact of Workforce Reductions on Layoff “Survivors”
   

   November 2009 | Executive Action Report

   This Executive Action features data on how layoffs were conducted, what support is being offered to employees who are leaving and who are staying, and some write-in comments on how respondents’ roles and companies are changing.

3. Working at the Intersection of Human Resources, Ethics, and Compliance - The Need for Collaboration
   

   October 2009 | Research Report

   The publication pursues cultural and organizational issues that may limit this collaboration, human resources' potential leadership role, and ways of introducing metrics into the equation.

4. Ill-Prepared U.S. Workforce
   

   August 2009 | Research Report

   This report raises several questions concerning the overall effectiveness of workforce readiness training programs.

5. Ill-Prepared U.S. Workforce
   

   August 2009 | Key Findings

   This report raises several questions concerning the overall effectiveness of workforce readiness training programs.

6. Will You Want to Hire Your Own Kids? (Will Anybody Else?)
   

   August 2009 | Executive Action Report

   Workforce entrants are caught between an educational system that teaches and measures one set of skills and a rapidly evolving workplace that demands another. But who will close the gap?

7. Relieving Pressures to Eliminate Jobs
   

   July 2009 | Executive Action Report

   Smaller companies are finding ways to "redeploy" employees rather than lay them off. Three models for surviving recessions without losing your investment in human capital.

8. Offshoring Reaches the C-Suite
   

   June 2009 | Key Findings

   This report distills findings and interpretations from the 2007/2008 Offshoring Research Network (ORN) survey.

9. Mission Accomplished? What Every Leader Should Know about Survivor Syndrome
   

   June 2009 | Executive Action Report

   This Executive Action report explores the concept of "survivor syndrome," how it materializes, and what to do about it.

10. Changing Attitudes to Work – What Should HR Do?
    

    March 2009 | Council Perspectives

    Participants at The Conference Board’s European Human Resources Council Summit issue a set of management recommendations to deal with changing work attitudes.

2008

1. Can They Take It? What Happens When Older Employees Work Overtime
   

   November 2008 | Executive Action Report

   Overtime is a key to profitability for many employers, and a boost to the paychecks of their employees. But is there a concomitant cost when, as is often the case, senior employees work extra hours?

2. Huddled Masses? Why Helping Immigrants Helps Companies
   

   September 2008 | Council Perspectives

   Immigration is a hot-button issue. When it comes to corporate philanthropy, the target should be immigrant integration. The payoff to both business and society can be handsome.

3. Bridging the Gaps: How to Transfer Knowledge in Today's Multigenerational Workplace
   

   July 2008 | Research Report

   This report/guide discusses the dynamics of knowledge transfer and explains how to apply any of 15 methods for facilitating the flow of information and insight from those who have it to those who need it.

4. Women's Leadership: Revitalizing Women’s Initiatives
   

   July 2008 | Executive Action Report

   Key indicators of gender in the workplace suggest that women's advancement in corporate America has plateaued or even slipped over the past few years. Still, many companies remain committed to initiatives designed to support women in the workplace.

5. Shifting the Focus: Updating Your Work-Life Approach to Integrate Employee Engagement and Talent Management
   

   May 2008 | Executive Action Report

   In order to engage and retain employees, companies will need to modernize their work-life approach. This means moving beyond flex-time and taking a holistic approach.

6. HR Challenge: Staffing Up to Expand Overseas
   

   April 2008 | Executive Action Report

   You don't have to be a huge company to establish a presence in foreign markets. You do need to develop global leaders and learn how to recruit local talent.

7. Compensation & Benefits: A Global View
   

   January 2008 | Council Perspectives

   What are the most effective strategies for recruiting and retaining high-performing talent when it’s a sellers’ market, virtually anywhere in the world?

2007

1. Mid-Market CEO Challenge: 2007 Edition
   

   December 2007 | CEO Challenge®

   This survey based report provides an overview of the challenges currently faced by CEOs in the mid-market sector.

2. Gray Skies, Silver Linings: How Companies Are Forecasting, Managing, and Recruiting a Mature Workforce
   

   December 2007 | Research Report

   Executives in need of frank, bottom-line answers to the questions raised by boomer retirements will find them in this report.

3. Gray Skies, Silver Linings: How Companies Are Forecasting, Managing, and Recruiting a Mature Workforce
   

   December 2007 | Key Findings

   Executives in need of frank, bottom-line answers to the questions raised by boomer retirements will find them in this report.

4. Finding a Definition of Employee Engagement
   

   June 2007 | Executive Action Report

   Executives are beginning to realize that "employee engagement" doesn't mean the same thing to everyone in every company. So what is the proper definition and what does it mean to have an engaged workforce?

5. How to Make Executive Coaching Work for Your Company and Executives
   

   February 2007 | Executive Action Report

   The field of executive coaching continues to evolve today, but in general, successful coaching agreements are based on a high degree of professional integrity on the coach's part, and a coachee willing to embark on the "coaching journey".

2006

1. Faith at Work: What Does It Mean to Be a “Faith-Friendly” Company?
   

   November 2006 | Executive Action Report

   Though in its early stages, the "faith-at-work movement" is demanding serious attention from employers. How companies frame their response will determine if the issue becomes a legal minefield or a source of competitive advantage.

2. Employee Engagement
   A Review of Current Research and Its Implications
   

   November 2006 | Research Report

   This literature review summarizes what is known on the topic of "Employee Engagement" and what companies can do to foster true engagement in the workplace.

3. Faith at Work: What Does It Mean to Be a “Faith-Friendly” Company?
   

   November 2006 | Council Perspectives

   Though in its early stages, the "faith-at-work movement" is demanding serious attention from employers. How companies frame their response will determine if the issue becomes a legal minefield or a source of competitive advantage.

4. Strategic Workforce Planning
   Forecasting Human Capital Needs to Execute Business Strategy
   

   August 2006 | Research Report

   This report is the culmination of presentations by workforce planning thought leaders and best practice organizations, a literature review, and company interviews of 20 companies, from which nine were chosen for detailed case studies.

5. Maximizing Rotational Assignments: A Handbook for Human Resources Executives
   

   June 2006 | Research Report

   This handbook explores the dynamics at play in identifying and executing business unit, geographic, and staff-line rotations.

6. CEO Challenge 2006: Perspectives & Analysis
   

   June 2006 | CEO Challenge®

   Summary and analysis of findings from this year's CEO Challenge Survey.

7. Age and Opportunity: Plan Strategically to Get the Most Out of a Maturing Workforce
   

   April 2006 | Council Perspectives

   The trend numbers are enough to frighten even the most stoic CEO. In a nutshell: if boomers retire as expected, there won’t be enough people to do the work. But companies can plan their way out of the worst and gain a competitive advantage too

2004

1. CEO Challenge 2004: Perspectives and Analysis
   

   November 2004 | CEO Challenge®

   This report, based on The Conference Board's CEO Challenge 2004 Survey project, presents the findings of in-depth interviews with 11 CEOs from multinational companies, along with data and analysis of survey respondents' top priorities.

2. Work-Life and Diversity: Local Needs and Business Relevance Drive Success
   

   November 2004 | Executive Action Report

   Spurred on by the new European Union-wide anti-discrimination legislation, inclusion policies and practices are being adopted by Europe-based organisations. Which approaches will succeed?

2003

1. European Perspective: Using Diversity and Work-Life Solutions to Retain a Competitive Edge
   

   November 2003 | Executive Action Report

   This report finds organizations that master the ability to effectively address the needs, challenges, and opportunities that diversity represents will be the ones that thrive globally.

2. Closing the Revolving Door: How To Ensure New Hires Stay
   

   October 2003 | Executive Action Report

   Here is what employers and employees need to do to avoid the “set-up-to-fail syndrome.”

3. Job Satisfaction Continues to Wither
   

   September 2003 | Executive Action Report

   A new Conference Board survey finds less than half of workers are satisfied with their jobs—and the discontent is growing among all age groups and income levels.

2002

1. Emphasis on Developing Leaders: Despite Hard Times Companies View Leadership Development as a Priority
   

   September 2002 | Executive Action Report

   Even during corporate belt-tightening leadership development is a necessity, not a luxury.

2001

1. Why All the Uncertainty, Fear and Doubt? Are Mergers and Acquisitions Bad for Workers?
   

   June 2001 | Research Report

   This study examines the effects of ownership changes on employment, wages, and plant closing for the entire U.S. manufacturing sector for the period 1977-1987.

1999

1. Work-Life Initiatives in a Global Context
   

   June 1999 | Research Report

   This report, based on the 1999 Work and Family conference in New York, evaluates how this strain affects workers and businesses on a global level.

1998

1. Bridging the Leadership Gap
   

   April 1998 | Research Report

   Does your company develop leaders properly? Here's a look at what members of the Fortune 1000 do.

1996

1. European Regional Design
   

   July 1996 | Research Report

   Part of the Organizing for Global Competitiveness series, this report looks at the MNC designs for corporations in the European region.