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Just Want to Have Fun - Kanexa

Source: Journey of a Training Manager

Nov 09, 2008

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Chief Guru: Kenexa founder and CEO Rudy Karsan at the company's Wayne, Pennsylvania, HQ. | photograph by Peter Hapak

How Kenexa is blending psychology and technology to create passionate workers.

At the suburban Philadelphia offices of Kenexa, people grin at one another all day long. Sometimes they hug. Bright posters of the company's guiding principles dot the walls: YOU'RE ALLOWED TO LAUGH YOUR WAY THROUGH A PROBLEM AND MAKING FRIENDS REPLACES OUR ORGANIZATIONAL HIERARCHY. The CEO, Rudy Karsan, spouts odd koanlike talk: "The world is like a roomful of jars. Every time you open a jar, there's untold treasure in there."

Ah, but there's treasure in such psychobabble. Kenexa is the leading human-resources-services company in America. Sixty percent of the Fortune 100, including Caterpillar, General Motors, Time Warner's, and Wachovia, hire Kenexa to help get inside the minds of their employees and build worker loyalty. It has what analysts say is the sector's most sophisticated data-crunching software, as well as a squad of scientists -- statisticians and industria ...Read the full article

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