Over the 2000-2007 period, of the 17 economies studied, only Korea, Taiwan, and Sweden had greater productivity growth in manufacturing than the United States. Average annual growth rates for selected measures over various time periods are shown in the full release.

IQNavigator, provider of global services procurement solutions and managed service programs, will sponsor a new Human Capital Institute (HCI) online Research Practice Area (RPA) focused on Contract Talent. IQNavigator will collaborate and provide market leading insight to help organizations increase the overall effectiveness of their indirect workforce.

Professionals using the Public Relations Society of America's (PRSA) Jobcenter will now find the site easier and more functional when searching for communications and public relations jobs. PRSA recently added "Job Mentor" and "Ask the Experts" programs to its Career Resources. Job seekers can now get free advice from a job mentor, who is a career expert in resume writing, interviewing techniques and building networks, and access the "Ask the Experts," which allows them to pose questions regarding what to say and not say in interviews, how to respond to salary requirement queries, what to do if submitting resumes but not getting interviews, and much more.

Adicio, developer of web-based classified advertising solutions, has announced that it is powering the online real estate classifieds for 12 sites owned by MediaNews Group, the nation's fourth largest newspaper company, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado.

TweetMyJOBS.com, a Charlotte, NC, startup, has built a sophisticated job distribution system on top of the widely popular online service Twitter.com. Companies that are looking to hire can post a job opening for free and interested parties will automatically get the job posting sent to them as a text message. In addition, if the job opening has been created as a result of the U.S. stimulus package, it will be identified as a Stimulus Job and will be featured and headlined on TweetMyJOBS.com.

Military.com, military and veteran online membership organization and subsidiary of Monster Worldwide, Inc. releases the 2009 edition of The Military Advantage: A Comprehensive Guide to Your Military and Veterans Benefits, the essential reference to accessing the scholarships, educational benefits, military discounts, health care, and transition assistance every service member needs.

myStaffingPro releases version 2.9 of its popular Microsoft® Dynamics GP integration. New features include the ability to choose when and if to export a requisition and its corresponding applicants to Microsoft® Dynamics GP. Additionally, a new section has been added to the requisition screen in myStaffingPro® listing the integration status, the date/time the requisition was exported, and other custom fields specific to the integration.

Unison Resource Company introduces Outsourcing and Recruitment Services to deliver solutions for a range of human capital needs, including full-time placement, identifying experienced project contractors and outsourcing services in the in the agriculture (including plant science, animal science, energy, and natural resources), life sciences, and health care industries.

HR.com will be publishing a Savings and Survival Book, which will be available April 15, 2009. The book will include coupons from over 250 vendors with a total value in excess of $30,000 in savings, representing products that are used every day in the workforce. http://www.hr.com/couponoffer

If She Managed the World ...
The presence of more women in the workplace could help lift the European Union out of recession and mitigate the impact of future financial crises, officials in Brussels said Tuesday. "Discrimination produces inefficiency. And it is precisely during times of crises that we should be most active," said European Equals Opportunity Commissioner Vladimir Spidla at the launch of a European campaign against the gender pay gap.

Spidla quoted a series of studies showing that a more active participation by women in the workplace helps make businesses more efficient and avoid riskier investments.

One such study of 15,000 small- and medium-sized businesses in Finland found that those run by women tend to be 10 percent more efficient than those run by men. Another recent French study showed that companies with more women on their board of directors tended to perform better on the stock exchange.

The study's author, Professor Michel Ferrary of the Ceram Business School in France, writes that research has shown women to be more risk-averse and to focus more on a long-term perspective.

Ferrary compared the performance of French banking giant BNP Paribas, where 38.7 percent of managers are women and which experienced a drop in its share price of 39 percent in 2008, with that of Credit Agricole, where only 16 percent of managers are women and whose share price plummeted by 62.3 percent over the same period. According to EU figures, only 30 percent of Europe's managers are women. But this percentage drops to just 10 percent for large corporations.

Worst still, women are paid on average 14.7 per cent less than their male counterparts, despite doing exactly the same job.

And while the reasons for such a gender gap are numerous, it represents an intolerable source of discrimination that makes both moral and economic sense, Spidla said. The commissioner was citing a European Commission report published on Tuesday which found that some of Europe's worst-performing economies, such as Italy's, also have a low participation of women in the workplace.

"If (a country) does not use its full human potential, it will have more problems," Spidla said. Thanks to The Earth Times.

Minnesota's top 100 public companies have great room for improvement when it comes to women on corporate boards. Thirteen companies make the honor roll while 28 of the top 100 have no women directors Minnesota's largest 100 public companies outperform all but New York and the Chicago area in the percentage of available board seats held by women, according to a newly released study.

The number of women reported on corporate boards drops, the study found, as company size decreases among Minnesota's top 100 public companies. Of the 16 Fortune 500 companies based in Minnesota, 75 percent have two or more women directors, while the remaining 25 percent have one. Those percentages drop to approximately 38 percent and 54 percent, respectively, for the 13 companies ranked 501-1000 by Fortune. Only 17 percent of the remaining 71 companies have two or more women directors. Less than half (45 percent) of these 71 companies have one woman on their boards, and 38 percent have none.

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