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HUMAN RESOURCES: Think your business is too small for HR? Think again

December 25, 2006

After squeezing 36 hours out of every 24-hour day, you have reached a milestone in your business: You realize you need help. How you find, hire and treat employees-from that first one to those that follow-can accelerate your success or throw obstacles in your way. The moment you begin the search for your first employee, you enter the intricate world of “human resources.” If you’re like many busy entrepreneurs, you have given little thought to how to do that. You…

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: Laws, regulations rippling through corporate America

December 25, 2006

They say that one way to avoid getting angry at the car traffic around you is to imagine that the drivers are people you know. Likewise, it is said that substituting the words “other people” for the word “government” in the discussion of government’s obligations and responsibilities toward its citizens can take some of the thunder out of the latter’s demands. That’s no great insight, of course. We want to impress, please and be liked by people. But organizations, bureaucracies…

EYE ON THE PIE: Time for progressive Indiana income tax?

December 11, 2006

There is growing agreement that the rich are getting richer faster than the poor are improving their lives. If you believe the trickle-down theorists, the poor will get the runoff as wealth is showered upon the few. If you look about, however, you will question this charming opinion held by the comfortable. At the same time, policies at the national and state levels continue to emphasize cutting the most important means we have of correcting this growing imbalance in America….

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: Researching riddles from the labor market

December 11, 2006

When you work as a researcher at a large university, you’ve got plenty of company. I may not fully appreciate every nuance of the specialized research being done by the broad spectrum of professors and scientists I work with, but all of us share a common understanding of the research process, and what it takes to be successful. We slave over data sets, keep an ever-alert eye for funding and support, and try to get others excited about our findings….

ABDUL-HAKIM SHABAZZ Commentary: The war on Christmas is imaginary

December 4, 2006

With the passing of Thanksgiving, we are now in the official Holiday Season. It means a lot of things to a lot of people, including the “war on Christmas.” Yes, it’s the time of year when every conservative commentator and organization comes out with the “list” of examples that show America’s traditional Christian roots are under attack, and the war against Christmas is living proof. I decided to do a little research. First, most of what we consider Christmas has…

EYE ON THE PIE: ‘Tis the season for economic foolishness

December 4, 2006

This is the best time of the year. Thanksgiving is over and the signs of Christmas have yet to bore us. All the truly crazy people have identified themselves by shopping on the days immediately following Thanksgiving. New and old ideas are blossoming for consideration by the Indiana General Assembly. Gov. Mitch Daniels has given us the Commerce Connector, a nifty addition to our highway road map. This would be a new outer loop around Indianapolis, serving Greenfield, Shelbyville, Franklin…

EYE ON THE PIE: Indiana: a primer for the Legislature

November 27, 2006

The General Assembly is organizing itself. This is more difficult than getting fleas to join a union. But I am being disrespectful. My purpose this week is benign. I present for the consideration of our 150 legislators certain facts about Indiana and where it ranks nationally. The data are from the 2005 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. First, let’s consider sex. Of the 6.1 million Hoosiers, 50.9 percent are females, which leaves 49.1 percent…

NOTIONS: Let’s clear the air at state schools

November 27, 2006

Long ago, I did some work for Special Olympics. In the process, I learned a semantic preference of the organization: One never says “mentally retarded people.” One says “people with mental retardation.” The rationale: These athletes are people first, not a condition. Long ago, I also did AIDS education and prevention work. In the process, I learned a semantic preference of health organizations and their clients: One never says “AIDS victims.” One says “people with AIDS.” The rationale: Those with…

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: China’s economic engine may be starting to sputter

November 27, 2006

It seemed like a reasonable forecast at the time. After an extraordinarily violent and deadly hurricane season in 2005, predictions of a second straight severe summer in 2006 made big headlines. But 2006 has turned out to be a year where not a single hurricane-rated storm has made U.S. landfall, one of only 21 years on record here that has been hurricane-free. It’s hardly the first time forecasters have eaten humble pie. And the experience serves to remind us that…

Papa program: boon or boondoggle? EYE ON THE PIE Morton Marcus:

November 20, 2006

The sleet was furious, but there stood Fred Fetid, my neighbor, at my front door. “May I come in?” he said. “Certainly,” I responded. He took off his soaked coat. I turned on the faux fireplace in my living room, got him some bourbon and asked, “What’s up?” “I’m confused,” Fred said. “Just last week, Sen. Evan Bayh announced that nearly $1 million will come to the Indiana Youth Institute to encourage responsible fatherhood. It’s part of a $50 million…

TAWN PARENT Commentary: Is your company wasting its talents?

November 20, 2006

Organizational development isn’t usually my bag, but when I heard people using words like uplifting, inspiring, astonishing, cool, infectious and dynamite to describe an up-and-coming method, I decided to check it out. The method is appreciative inquiry, which is billed as a way of transforming organizations by trying to build on what’s right instead of analyzing what’s wrong. “You motivate people more through engaging in what’s positive,” said Ruth Purcell-Jones, president of Trustee Leadership Development Inc., a local organization that…

NOTIONS: A call for cooperation in a deep purple nation

November 13, 2006

It’s election night. The hour is late. Political junkie that I am, however, I’m propped up in bed, the television blaring before me, the laptop perched on my legs. Remote in hand, I flip TV channels between CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX, C- SPAN and Comedy Central. With the flick of an index finger on my computer, I bounce between Web sites of The Indianapolis Star, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Marion County Election Board,…

Newspapers and civic responsibility CHRIS KATTERJOHN Commentary:

November 13, 2006

Lately, a bunch of wealthy, hotshot CEOs and politicos have made noises about buying some well-known metropolitan daily newspapers that are considered in play. The names are Hollywood producer David Geffen and the Los Angeles Times; retired General Electric CEO Jack Welch and the Boston Globe; and Baltimore civic leaders Walter Sondheim Jr. and Ted Venetoulis and the Baltimore Sun. What’s going on here? The business is dying, isn’t it? Circulation of major dailies has been in a downward spiral…

BRIAN WILLIAMS Commentary: Indy is ready (and waiting) for rapid transit

November 13, 2006

A new survey demonstrates yet again that community leaders recognize it is time to fix traffic congestion, improve air quality, reduce aggregate fuel use and enhance area accessibility. The study was taken last summer of 377 members of the Lacy Leadership Association, a group of local opinion leaders, by Walker Information, a local market research firm. More than 90 percent of survey respondents indicated that rapid transit is an important component of the solution to these problems. In addition, respondents…

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: Our technology woes begin in grade school

November 13, 2006

Those of us who work for universities soon become acquainted with the concept of tenure, which is a status typically conferred upon those of faculty rank who have demonstrated to their colleagues the ability to teach and conduct research to a high standard. Those who achieve tenured status are more free to speak their minds about controversial issues, since it is much more difficult for their superiors to terminate or dismiss them without just cause. The words penned in this…

EYE ON THE PIE: We all could use a dose of civility

November 6, 2006

Whenever life seems too gloomy to endure, there is relief to be found in the antics of the Bloomington City Council. That body of jokesters recently voted to permit households within the city limits to keep up to five chickens. These chickens will help supply fresh eggs, thereby reducing the community’s dependency on unnatural food sources. (No, dear reader, I did not make this up.) We will not claim the City Council of Bloomington is sexist because it permits egg-laying…

TOM HARTON Commentary: Recipe for a great university president

November 6, 2006

And in the almost 20 years since John Ryan? None of the three presidents hired by IU’s trustees have had any apparent connection to IU or the state. The IU marketing machine will churn out plenty of evidence, most of it legitimate, that those three-Thomas Ehrlich, Myles Brand and Adam Herbert-enjoyed successful tenures, but public perception says otherwise. IU isn’t alone in turning its back on internal candidates. R. William Funk, one of the foremost university president headhunters, said only…

EYE ON THE PIE: Who is watching Hoosier journalism?

September 25, 2006

I recently attended a lecture on renal problems of penal populations. The study of kidney disease among prisoners has been a fascination of mine since I started watching James Cagney movies. The next day, I thought I would break out in liver spots when I read the newspaper account. The central points of the lecture were missed as the reporter bore down on other interesting, but tangential, issues. No doubt some of prisoners’ kidney problems are the result of specific…

NOTIONS: Dear philanthropist: Make me a daydream believer

September 18, 2006

Last month, I picked up my boys in Fort Wayne, drove north on Interstate 69, hooked a left at Interstate 94, and got off at the Portage, Mich., exit. There, we whiled away the weekend at a family reunion. The grownups ate too much, caught up on gossip and puttered around the lake in the speedboat. The teenagers, whom we rarely saw, did X-Box battle in the basement. On Sunday, after the kids had surfaced for lunch and the grandparents…

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: Productivity is going up, but what’s the cause?

September 11, 2006

It’s all quite clear as economists draw it up on their blackboards. Growth in productivity-defined as the output produced per person-hour of labor-is what ultimately allows us all to enjoy a higher standard of living. When we collectively produce more, we earn more. Or, to put it another way, we can afford to pay ourselves more without provoking inflation. And since the midpoint of the last decade, the measures of economy-wide productivity produced by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics…

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HUMAN RESOURCES: Think your business is too small for HR? Think again

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: Laws, regulations rippling through corporate America

EYE ON THE PIE: Time for progressive Indiana income tax?

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: Researching riddles from the labor market

ABDUL-HAKIM SHABAZZ Commentary: The war on Christmas is imaginary

EYE ON THE PIE: ‘Tis the season for economic foolishness

EYE ON THE PIE: Indiana: a primer for the Legislature

NOTIONS: Let’s clear the air at state schools

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: China’s economic engine may be starting to sputter

Papa program: boon or boondoggle? EYE ON THE PIE Morton Marcus:

TAWN PARENT Commentary: Is your company wasting its talents?

NOTIONS: A call for cooperation in a deep purple nation

Newspapers and civic responsibility CHRIS KATTERJOHN Commentary:

BRIAN WILLIAMS Commentary: Indy is ready (and waiting) for rapid transit

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: Our technology woes begin in grade school

EYE ON THE PIE: We all could use a dose of civility

TOM HARTON Commentary: Recipe for a great university president

EYE ON THE PIE: Who is watching Hoosier journalism?

NOTIONS: Dear philanthropist: Make me a daydream believer

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: Productivity is going up, but what’s the cause?