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Dresser & Associates Launches New Corporate Website

By Dresser and Associates | Published August 12, 2011

Sage Abra HMRS Business Partner’s Newly Redesigned Site Serves as a Resource for HR and Payroll Professionals.
Scarborough, Maine – August 11, 2011 – Dresser & Associates, the leading Sage Abra HRMS business partner in North America, today announced the launch of its newly redesigned corporate website, www.dresserassociates.com. The new site offers quick and easy access to hundreds of pages of payroll and HR product and industry information, …Read More

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When the Fit Is Not Good

By Kevin S. Hickey | Published April 29, 2011

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As people, we are all unique, and we each display a unique set of behaviors that define us as individuals. Some of these behaviors are recurrent and stable across time. We don’t display them in all situations, but we do display them in most situations. These recurrent and enduring behaviors comprise the picture that others have of us when they hear our name. These behavioral tendencies are what we refer to as …Read More

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Kevin S. Hickey, Ph.D. Management Psychology
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How do we hire the right candidate for the position?

By Kathleen Weiss | Published April 14, 2011

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Dear Kathleen:
How do we hire the right candidate for the position? We’ve hired an administrative assistant for one of our managers several times, but each one turned out to be the wrong person. During the interview process, they all seemed to be the perfect candidate, but once they actually started working, it’s obvious they were not right for the job. What are we doing wrong?
Thanks,
Annette B.
A. Dear …Read More

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Sage Moves to the Cloud

By Dresser and Associates | Published February 22, 2011

You can tell a lot about a company by the way that they respond to its customer’s needs.
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Sage is being recognized as a leader in business solution technology and for its ability to adapt to the changing business client. In a recent interview on Fox Business News Countdown to the Closing Bell, Liz Claman spoke with Sage CEO, Guy Berruyer about how Sage will deliver business solutions using Cloud Computing.
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Is BPM the New Workflow?

By Ed Reiter | Published January 27, 2011

In the 1990s, there was a great deal of excitement about the ability to diagram workflows. In some cases you could execute the workflow. This was done using proprietary code. Changes to the workflow or debugging problems happened within the code and required a programmer or an IT commitment to resolve the issues.
These tools used tokens that represented tasks and were built into the program. This is why the program required a programmer to …Read More