Why do employees leave? What motivates good employees to stay? How skilled an employee's supervisor is plays a major role, a new study shows. (Oct. 2, 2008)
Sara Horowitz, ILR '84, founder of Working Today, a union for flexible workers, delivered the Iscol Family Program lecture on the need for new kinds of unions, Sept. 8. (Sept. 9, 2008)
ILR students learned the ins and outs of mediation at an August seminar. Ninety applicants competed for 26 slots at the workshop, which is offered twice a year. (Sept. 5, 2008)
Fifty new ILR students learned about Cornell as an employer in a special program Aug. 26 with Cornell Vice President for Human Resources Mary Opperman. (Sept. 5, 2008)
Star players in the NBA make winning coaches, finds a study out of Cornell and the University of Warwick, England. The results indicate that experts in a field make the best leaders. (June 13, 2008)
Each spring semester, 36 scholars, representing approximately 1 percent of the graduating class, are named to receive this honor by the deans of each of the seven undergraduate colleges.
Fewer than 4 percent of the nation's firefighters are women, and more than half of paid fire departments have never hired a female firefighter, finds a new report issued by the ILR School's Institute for Women and Work. (May 5, 2008)
Cornell Professor Ronald G. Ehrenberg will receive an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the State University of New York's Binghamton University in May.
