Latest management news.
Offensive coworker? Deal with it, survey says, 10/17/07: Employees who feel belittled, sabotaged or discredited by coworkers have to depend on their own interpersonal skills and coping strategies in the workplace, because superiors won’t prevent employees from clashing, according to a new survey.
One of the ‘Net’s most powerful women lands a new role, 10/17/07: One of the Internet’s most powerful women has a new job.
IT talent crunch: Myth or reality?, 10/17/07: Covering IT management technologies often leads to discussions around IT managers’ concerns, ranging from technology to processes to people.
How to get a CIO job, ask for a pay raise, plus answers to other career questions – Network …, 10/17/07: Last week, Network World held its latest series of online chats with industry experts, this time with Matt Colarusso, a national IT recruiter with staffing company Sapphire. In just an hour, Colarusso answered a very broad range of questions from readers, ranging from tips to get a CIO position to how to get negotiate a pay raise.
Noncertified IT pros earn more than certified counterparts: survey, 10/16/07: IT professionals boasting diverse business acumen but noncertified IT skills on average are bringing in bigger salaries than their certified counterparts, according to Foote Partners, which attributes the growing imbalance to the melding of corporate and IT goals.
GridApp: Automating database management, 10/15/07: Even with all the talk around data center automation, one vendor says the industry forgets to stress the importance of automation when managing multiple databases.
IT has role in supporting people with disabilities, 10/15/07: It’s October, and that means it’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month in the U.S. It’s also time for my annual dissertation about what this means to an IT department. Today we’ll talk about the role of IT and Web accessibility, employee accommodations, procurement laws and a few other things.
Retention rates as top concern in SIM study, 10/16/07: The Society for Information Management (SIM) held its annual conference last week and released some surprising research. For as long as I can remember, the challenge of ensuring business-IT alignment had been the top concern among CIOs polled in the annual survey. But this year, the impending IT staffing shortage has knocked the perennial issue of business-IT alignment out of the top slot.
