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Evolution of Human Resources

By Guest PostJanuary 21, 2013Economybeebe medical center, bejoy philip, catherine halen, clayton hall, employee development, employer relations, empowerment, entrepreneurship, evolution, george irvine, human resources, human resources management, john sawyer, jpmorgan chase, kimberlee krupa, lerner college, lynn sydnor epps, organization, organizational development, personnel department, roundtable topic, siemens corporation, ud, university of delaware

Future of organizational development Employee Development Roundtable topic

Remember the personnel department? It’s an old fashioned concept now with its focus on record-keeping and employee policies, evolving into “human resources management” in the latter half of the 20th century.

But the future of human resources is also changing. Panelists and attendees at the University of Delaware’s Employee Development Roundtable in December discussed how organizations will develop their employees in the future, how local and global business pressures will affect the field, how technology will change employee development and what organizational development professionals should do now to shape the future. (more…)

Christmas Miracle

By Guest PostDecember 11, 2012Culture, Generalbritish army, british broadcasting company, british forces, christmas boxes, christmas truce, clayton hall, delaware, flanders, german soldiers, Germany, holiday season, imperial war museum, london, new years day, northern france, paris opera, peace, rodelle, silent night, soccer match, stanley weintraub, the french, the troops, university, war, woodrow wilson, world war i

Author discusses World War I Christmas truce at UDARF luncheon

An unbelievable thing happened during the first holiday season of World War I — peace broke out.

How the killing stopped for a few days in northern France and Flanders was the topic of a talk given by Stanley Weintraub, the author of Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce (Free Press 2002), during a University of Delaware Association of Retired Faculty luncheon held Tuesday, Dec. 4, in Clayton Hall.

Weintraub, the Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at Penn State University, has written numerous histories and biographies, including Long Day’s Journey Into War: Pearl Harbor and a World at War-December 7, 1941 (Dutton Adult, 1991). (more…)

Economic Forecast

By Guest PostFebruary 19, 2012Economy2012, americans, bruce weber, ceee, charles i plosser, clayton hall, david lyons, economic forecast, economic growth, Economy, evan krape, fiscal policy, government treasuries, jay fishman, jim o neill, joan woodward, john f kennedy, jon hilsenrath, kathryn meier, lyons companies, media experts, michael k farr, monetary policy, overdraft, philadelphia federal reserve, president bill clinton, public policy, the arrogance cycle, travelers insurancy company, unemployment, university of delaware, us debt, Wall Street Journal, Washington

*No silver bullet but hope for economy remains, experts tell audience at UD*

Analogies abounded at the 2012 Economic Forecast, where speakers compared monetary policy to turnpike driving, fiscal policy to an empty toolbox and investing to “finding the least worst house on an unstable block.”

Charles I. Plosser, president and CEO of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve, was one of three featured speakers at the annual event, which was sponsored by Lyons Companies and the University of Delaware’s Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship (CEEE) and held Tuesday, Feb. 14, at UD’s Clayton Hall. (more…)

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