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Human resource managers spend enormous amounts of time helping both employees and upper management cope with everyday issues involving two or more stakeholder groups—often with conflicting interests....
A common problem in many organizations. Employee turnover is very costly to any organization. Keep in mind that employee turnover is generally the result of more than one factor. Follow these steps...
i want ansower this question but i dont have information, any body can help me. thanks The European navigator begins with a plan-a course-which he has charted according to certain universal...
Are too many company meetings (as planned by The Other Guy, of course) falling short of expectations these days? Have you wondered why? Were those failed meetings complete in their construction?...
A useful check list for Employee Hiring
ntroduction For many Westerners, something about China is so intense and exciting that it’s a social glue among those who’ve spent some time there. We met through a mutual acquaintance who knew we...
New Employee Orientation Audio
I'm a big fan of audio learning programs. I recently listened to an interview with Vic Conant of Nightingale-Conant talking about the shift in their program sales. In the 80s and 90s, program sales...
As a business partner to the management team, human resources (HR) serves as a key adviser in all areas of HR related matters. HR supports and enhances the Company’s organizational activities at the...
What is Organization Design? ________________________________________ A process for improving the probability that an organization will be successful. ________________________________________...
Employee training and development process Learning happens all the time whether or not you are fully aware of it. Are you a person who forgets to save your work on your computer on a regular basis?...
Police administrators of small law enforcement agencies face great challenges as they seek to provide service with severely limited financial resources. An area often overlooked as having...
Summary A successful employee development plan: • Must be tied closely to the work of the individual, the team, and the organization -- both the current work being done and the work that is...
Many organizations, including several of our clients, spend a lot of effort understanding how to increase the levels of employee engagement in their organizations. This is based on years of research...
Rising oil and food prices and the global warming debate may have brought environmental responsibility solidly front-of-mind, but Wall Street shakeups and worsening unemployment statistics have yet...
Why buy a company when you can cherry pick the employees? Companies often acquire other organizations to attain talent, and do not realize all of the costs involved other than the initial sticker...
This Briefing Paper explores the business case for investing in employee and manager self-service, from the widely-anticipated efficiency gains for HR functions, line managers and individual...
A global study by Princeton consultants BlessingWhite finds that fewer than one in four information technology department employees are fully engaged in their work. Of the eight staff areas studied...
To increase your opportunities to move ahead, try implementing the success strategies that my clients have used to land their new jobs: 1. Build a career on your strengths. You have natural talents...
Many businesses use progressive discipline as a strategy to reduce disciplinary infractions. For some employees the strategy has a positive impact while for others it results in receiving additional...
Countless change agents and other organizational interventionists fail to achieve desired results because they ignore or are unaware of the need to closely align change strategy with organizational...
California, which nurtured Silicon Valley into a global phenomenon, has finally acted to stem the off-shoring of computer jobs by simplifying and reducing the compensation requirement for...
Did you ever walk down the sidewalk with a four year old? And your four year old keeps wandering toward the curb and maybe even toward the road and you keep pulling your kid over to the other side of...
More employers today are offering outplacement career-guidance assistance to employees who are terminated due to poor performance, or who are the wrong “fit” for positions, in addition to providing...
A salesperson really wants to close a deal and agrees to a delivery date manufacturing can’t meet. Manufacturing doesn’t respond quickly to a salesperson with a time-sensitive customer service...
To the chagrin of his current employer, Seth, a bright, ambitious 23-year-old recently resigned from the human resources department of a large international company. He had joined the company after...
When the St. Francis Yacht Club of San Francisco needed to hire a new controller and chief financial officer, it turned to the professional recruiters in the San Francisco office of Stanton Chase...
Recent foreign exchange fluctuations – most notably the rapid decline of the US dollar – affect all elements of compensation, and consequently the attraction and retention of key employees. However,...
With rising fuel costs, longer commutes, and threatened layoffs, workplace morale is at an all-time low--and frustration is on the rise. In many cases, workers are being asked to do more work for...
“I don’t know what else to do,” said the HR manager of a large manufacturing company. “We’ve just completed another team-building program to help get rid of the silo mentality and selfish politics...
Too many people are indifferent about what they do and are detached from their work. They drift through life like the bumper sticker, "I am neither for nor against apathy." Working with them, or...
The recent LA Times story on the discovery of current employees with criminal records, and the Los Angeles county supervisor’s suggestion to re-check 100,000 current employees for criminal records,...
When dealing with purchases of high significance, IT shoppers may spend months, even years, making the purchase decision. A great amount of time and effort is spent defining purchase needs,...
You might wonder what do Tic Tacs and employee surveys have in common? Well, I'm sure you will agree that Tic Tacs taste better than surveys, are easier to fit in your pocket and don't cost as much,...
A team does as well as you and the team think they can. This idea is known as “the self-fulfilling prophecy”. When you believe the team will perform well, in some strange, magical way they do. And...
A new study by ComPsych Corporation revealed more than half of workers in their 60s have healthy diets, compared to only 17.7 percent of employees in their 30s. Employees in their 50s and 60s also...
Most companies do not have a plan to manage and transfer knowledge and even fewer factor cross-generational challenges into business strategy, says a new report from The Conference Board, the global...
One step forward; one step back; step together, and back again. To perform the job interview salary negotiation dance steps, you must have a good sense of balance. Knowing your value and your worth...
Have you seen the popular new television show-of-the-moment, Mad Men? This multiple-award winning cable program depicts life in an ad agency on New York’s Madison Avenue in the early 1960s. Aside...
The importance of temporary and contract employees on the American work force can’t be denied. In fact, hourly employees make up about 60 percent of the U.S. work force. How companies manage the...
Not enough passion in your organization? It’s costing you. Gallup estimated that the 22 million workers who consider themselves either actively disengaged or extremely negative in their workplace...
All leaders who participate in hiring decisions, pay attention! The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by 2010, there will be more members of the Millennial Generation than Baby Boomers...
In this situation, how can one ever address poor/weak performance without being labeled “not a team player”? I am a frequent (online) reader of Practical Leadership and would welcome any suggestions...
Economic turbulence, demands for increased financial disclosure, changes in financial reporting and increased pension funding requirements are combining to make defined benefit pension plan risks...
The unemployment rate jumped to a five year high this August as more employers continue to cut jobs. This comes as no surprise with the weak economy and struggling financial markets. But what does...
Employees who are anxious about their futures – especially during a challenging economy such as now – can adversely affect a company’s profitability by delivering poor customer service, being less...
Widespread among employers today is a "neutral reference" strategy in providing references for current or former employees. In fact, many attorneys have urged clients to adopt this policy to decrease...
One of the most important lessons to emerge from the recent failure of several prominent financial institutions is the realization that many business organizations have yet to understand the real...
The need for more inspiration and strong leadership in the workplace is increasingly critical in today's economic climate, according to a new nationwide survey of more than 8,700 workers by...
With a tightening economy, those employers fortunate enough to be hiring cannot afford to make bad hiring decisions. Among other problems, bad hires can result in employee turnover, low production,...