HR Consultants: How Rupert Murdoch’s Scandal Relates To Your Company

July 27, 2011 By amyletke Leave a Comment

Rupert Murdoch’s company News Corps crossed the line. How so? Murdoch’s company is facing serious charges of phone-hacking, the ultimate breech in privacy and confidentiality. His newspapers shared information that they never should have had access to. As the case unfolds, more and more high-ranked officials including the London Metropolitan police chief and assistant commissioner have resigned due to ties with Murdoch. In a Parliament session on July 19, Murdoch denied knowing people in his company hacked the phones of celebrities, politicians, the royal family, and even a 13-year-old murder victim. During questioning by a committee of Parliament, Murdoch repeated over and over how sorry he was. But it looks like sorry isn’t good enough. His empire is on the verge of collapsing as a result of the phone hacking scandal. One of his publications News of the World … [Read more...]

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Marc Anthony & J.Lo: HR Consultants on Keeping Star Employees

July 20, 2011 By amyletke Leave a Comment

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Can you believe it? Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez announced they’re ending their seven year marriage! As a business professional, why should you care about the dissolution of just another celebrity marriage? As your human resources outsourcing and consulting firm in Louisville, Kentucky, we’re here to tell you why! Your business could face the same problem if you aren’t careful! Read on to find out. Gossip websites are speculating that Lopez’s star power just got too big for Anthony to handle. He wanted to control her shine and Jenny from the block wasn’t going to let that happen. After “months of nonstop arguing,” the couple announced they’re going their separate ways. Let’s have a moment of silence. Okay, moment over, now what can we learn from this? In our previous blog, we wrote about how Hugh Hefner handled losing his star employee. One reader … [Read more...]