"No plan survives contact with the enemy." This piece of battlefield wisdom has been passed down over the years after being introduced in 1880 by Prussian military strategist Helmuth von Moltke. I ...

Business application vendor PeopleSoft Inc. is rolling out an application that will allow companies to treat their employees like valued customers. The company this week is expected to announce HR ...

With the dark clouds of global recession now is the time for companies to make the most of their most valuable assets - their personnel. Writing in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

While payroll deals with compensating employees, human resources takes care of employee relations. Although the two departments have distinct roles in an organization, they also share functions that ...