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Going To Training? Some Hints
This article will provide some hints so you can maximize your learning and make use of what you have learned on your job or perhaps the next one.People attend training for a lot of reasons. The obvious one is to learn some new skills to use on the job or...
Tags: Training, Bacal & Associates, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources
White papers 2000-01-01
Exorcise Blame In Your Company
"Blaming refers to an emotion-filled process where we assign responsibility for a past event, but also assign a negative emotions to that responsibility. The blamer is attempting to avoid responsibility by pointing to someone else, and may be experiencing fear, anger or other feelings. The problem with the blaming process...
Tags: Responsibility, Bacal & Associates
White papers 2000-01-01
Organization Improvement
The workplace is a complicated place. Imagine a spider web of people, managers, supervisors and staff members who need to work together, interacting in various ways to fulfil the organization's mandate. Disagreements and conflict are bound to occur; between staff members, between staff and management, and between clients and members...
Tags: Workplace, Bacal & Associates, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Conflict & Cooperation In The Workplace
In the workplace, you are likely to find two forms of conflict. The first is conflict about decisions, ideas, directions and actions. The second form, "personalized conflict" is often called a personality conflict. In this form, the two parties simply don't like each other much. This article reveiws elements of...
Tags: Workplace, Form, Bacal & Associates, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2003-01-01
The Impossible Colleague
Sometimes in organizations there are certain employees who are good in their work but are difficult to handle or next to impossible. Most people use the term personality conflict to describe this situation. Focusing on blame will just drive you crazy. The key to these situations is to focus on...
Tags: Situation, Organization, Bacal & Associates, Productivity
White papers 2003-01-01
Management Skills for dealing with angry employees 
There are a number of different anger/conflict situations that managers will face at one time or another. Each of these situations is slightly different, and may require different sets of skills. One important management/leadership task is to be alert to cues that indicate that there is anger sitting below the...
Tags: Situation, Skill, Bacal & Associates, Communication Skills, Career
White papers 2003-01-01
Can Motivational Speakers Cause Harm?
It has been has observed that most motivational speakers cost good money and achieve nothing more than very temporary increases in "motivation" and morale. That's a best case scenario. The poor ones don't achieve anything at all. There's another question though. Can motivational speakers cause harm to individuals and organizations?...
Tags: Speaker, Bacal & Associates
White papers 2003-01-01
Seven Stupid Things EMPLOYEES Do To Screw Up Performance Appraisal
Generally, when performance appraisal goes awry, the primary cause has little to do with employees. For the most part, employees take their cues from management and human resources. However, when individual employees perceive the process in negative ways, they can create or damage even the best of appraisal processes. Article...
Tags: Employee, Performance, Bacal & Associates, Performance Appraisal, Performance Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Why Employee Ranking Systems Lead To Disaster 
Article discusses some reasons why most performance appraisal systems fail to add value to organizations. What is more perplexing is the continued use of ranking methods to evaluate employees. Ranking employees, particularly for determining promotion, and pay, or even for providing developmental feedback simply makes no sense. It is not...
Tags: Employee, Bacal & Associates, Performance Appraisal, Performance Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Why Improving Performance Management Systems Is So difficult
The article explains why the improvement efforts failed miserably. Most companies redesign their performance management systems. Sometimes they attempt total redesigns. Sometimes it's tweaking it, changing the forms and so on. Perhaps the strangest thing is the common result most companies receive. They end up with something that might look...
Tags: Performance, Bacal & Associates, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Twelve Tips For Recognizing The Contributions Of Your Employees And Colleagues
Article provide some tips and principles related to developing and using recognition systems within a Total Quality Management framework. In any organization, it is important that employees feel that their contributions are both valued and recognized. In traditional top-down organizations, it is usually management that designs and implements recognition strategies...
Tags: Employee, Bacal & Associates, Quality, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2000-01-01
A Performance Management Bias And Error Glossary
Performance appraisals are always sticky for everyone. While managers make an effort to be as objective as possible, there are always concerns about specific performance appraisals, and their accuracy. If you are going to evaluate your staff, then it is wise to be aware of factors that may affect your...
Tags: Performance, Bacal & Associates, Performance Appraisal, Performance Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Diagnosing Performance Problems 
It is mainly about how to diagnose performance problems, which is one of the toughest tasks for any manager, or supervisor is to determine the cause of a performance problem. Since decisions to remedial the problem will depend on the diagnosis, accurate assessment is crucial. This article will outline a...
Tags: Performance, Bacal & Associates, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Using Bi-directional Performance Management
Bi-directional performance management recognizes that for performance to improve, both manager and employee must receive feedback on how well they are fulfilling their obligations to the organization and to each other. It also recognizes that each staff member and his/her manager must clarify and negotiate expectations regarding each other's roles...
Tags: Performance, Bacal & Associates, Bi-directional Performance Management, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Basic Negotiating Tips 
Negotiating is the process by which two or more parties with different needs and goals work to find a mutually acceptable solution to an issue. Because negotiating is an inter-personal process, each negotiating situation is different, and influenced by each party's skills, attitudes and style. We often look at negotiating...
Tags: Process, Bacal & Associates, Free Trade, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
Is Conflict Prevention The Same As Conflict Avoidance?
Some people think that prevenging conflict is the same as avoiding conflict, which is not the case. This article describes the difference between the two approaches, and how conflict prevention involves the elimination of unnecessary conflict in the workplace.
Tags: Prevention, Bacal & Associates, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Organizational Conflict - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly2
We generally do not look at conflict as opportunity -- we tend to think about conflict as unpleasant, counter-productive and time-consuming. Conflict that occurs in organizations need not be destructive, provided the energy associated with conflict is harnessed and directed towards problem-solving and organizational improvement. Two Views are The Good,...
Tags: Conflict, Bacal & Associates
White papers 2003-01-01
TQM-What Is It? 
This article is about Total Quality Management, which refers to a management process, and set of disciplines that are coordinated to ensure that the organization consistently meets and exceeds customer requirements. TQM engages all divisions, departments and levels of the organization. Top management organizes all of its strategy and operations...
Tags: Total Quality Management, Bacal & Associates, TQM-What, Quality, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
Toxic Organizations - Welcome To The Fire Of An Unhealthy Workplace
Article describes about a organizational structure of toxic organization shows two characteristics that distinguish it from healthier workplaces. First, it has a history of poor performance, and poor decision-making. In extreme cases, that poor performance will continue despite personnel changes. Second, the toxic organization is characterized by very high levels...
Tags: Workplace, Performance, Organization, Bacal & Associates, Recruitment & Selection, Performance Management, Organizational Structure, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2000-01-01
Eleven Things That Create Resistance And Anger In Others
The way you communicate is the primary determinant of whether the person you are interacting with will listen and think about what you say, be indifferent to it, OR, fight like heck against it. We've made a list of the most common and detrimental ways of communicating that usually completely...
Tags: Bacal & Associates
White papers 2000-01-01