Not listening to employee complaints or failing to act decisively will lead to disgruntled employees over time. Disgruntled employees are the ones who sue. Though most employment-related legal issues are avoidable many companies never work on prevention. They stay in reaction mode. Unfortunately, once you are sued by an employee, …
Sound Human Resource management is as essential as financial management in today’s business environment. If employees are distracting each other, unmotivated, ill-trained or worse, ignorant of how their efforts either facilitate or detract from company goals, what’s the point of reporting financials and talking about fiscal responsibility? Every company job …
Performance Evaluation Input For supervisory staff especially, it’s helpful to get constructive feedback from other supervisors (peers), supervisees, and perhaps external contacts with which this supervisor has regular contact. Many companies try this only to abandon the activity when the feedback is less than helpful. I’ve tried various techniques to …
What’s the ultimate goal of employee engagement? To my way of thinking, the purpose of employee engagement is to enable company success while increasing employee satisfaction and retention. Programs that increase employee engagement will support and enhance: Employees’ understanding of and buy-in to company strategic goals; Employees full understanding of …
What follows is a guest post by a fan of this blog. Erin Palmer writes about topics like PHR Certification as well as online hr degree programs. Erin can be reached on Twitter @Erin_E_Palmer. I hope you enjoy this HR topic. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ There is always room for …
The process of change – how the world of business works is aptly described in Spencer Johnson’s 1998 book Who Moved My Cheese?* I recently needed an illustration of the maladaptive ways in which employees respond to change, while teaching Psychology in the Workplace. Students didn’t have the time to …
Today’s HR Mission includes Human Resources that are: Integrated Aligned Accountable Compliant _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Integrated HR Human Resources is no longer just another staff department. In order to ensure maximum business impact and to allow HR management principles and expertise to inform business plans, …
It is a rare workplace made up of consistently professional and respectful staff. Learning how to navigate difficult coworkers is a fairly basic requirement for work in the modern American workplace. Toxic employees, by their nature, understand how to take advantage of others. They are willing to escalate their behavior …
Companies and nonprofits are attending to their culture in greater numbers than ever. Inspiring stories from companies like Zappos are making their way around social media circles. Further, unless you’ve been living under a rock you know that younger workers have less tolerance for the workplace shenanigans of bullies and …
Pre-service (attachment) Vacancy: New job is added; employee resigns or employee is dismissed Job Analysis: job design/review, establishing qualifications, selecting source Recruitment: Sourcing and advertising Selection: Application, screening, interview, offer, acceptance On-boarding: Policies, HR paperwork, receive corporate culture materials Employee orientation: culture orientation, job shadowing, practice Early service (engagement) …