The Northeast Missouri Development Partnership (NMDP) has retained Growth Services Group (GSG), a national labor market research consulting firm, to administer a local residential workforce survey. GSG will conduct the survey via targeted social media marketing as well as through NMDP partner organizations. The goal of the survey is to identify the available labor force at the local and regional level by type, education, experience, skills, costs, and under what conditions th

Do not refer to employees as “human capital” in front of Dennis Bakke, co founder and former CEO of AES, the largest provider of electricity in the world. Bakke values people far too much to lump them together with fuel or other capital, or to consider them as a mere means to an end. Which is not to say that AES does not make money-- since its inception in 1981, profits and revenues have been impressive, with over 40,000 employees, plants in 31 countries, and revenues of $8.6