What does education policy have in common with Van Halen? No, it's not the band's 1984 hit "Hot for Teacher." It is something far less sexy: complexity. As we learned from Atul Gawande's book "The ...

A social media policy or a set of guidelines helps your employees make smarter decisions when marketing your brand, products and services online and may mitigate the risk of coming under the radar of ...

Back in the dark ages of the 1980s and early 1990s— think Gordon Gekko, Yuppies and MS-DOS—being an employee was a fairly straightforward affair. When you were hired, you got an employee manual in a ...

If you own a small business, you are your own human resources department. In a job – there is a tremendous amount of what you need – and becoming a solid HR person can seem overwhelming. Putting all ...

This is a slightly modified version of a post that appeared on Health Affairs blog on January 28. With the generous support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Narrative Matters personal essays have ...

Policies are general guidelines that regulate employee actions in a company. Procedures are customary methods of handling activities and can be more specific than policies. For example, a policy may ...