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• Moving Employees to Hot Housing Markets Is a Tough Sell

  BNET - 2003-11-01

  It's a pricey proposition to move employees to expensive housing markets like New York and San Francisco. But companies are finding ways to drive down those high costs, from selling employees' homes more quickly to fine-tuning perilous cost-of-living adjustments. Convincing employees to move to high-cost areas almost always means paying...

  Tags: Employee, Housing Market, Crain Communications Inc.

• Hiking With The Honchos At The Container Store

  BNET - 2003-09-01

  The business owners claim that employee loyalty is directly tied to how good employees feel about their jobs. It is a debatable concept, but it seems to be working for The Container Store. Respecting employees is not just a value statement that hangs on the wall; it is an intrinsic...

  Tags: Employee, Crain Communications Inc., Construction, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

• Disability Management: A Good Business Decision

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  The payoff for efforts towards disabled workers is higher productivity, reduced lost-work time, a decline in litigation, and an increase in dedicated and motivated employees. Besides, this article also states that returning to work may help employees to get healthier more quickly. In fact, education of the injured employee as...

  Tags: Employee, Crain Communications Inc., Litigation, Business Operations

• Who and What You'll Deal With if an Employee is Hurt

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  The ability to effectively communicate with the various professionals involved with injured employee's claim, medical treatment, recovery and return to work is an essential skill of the supervisor. It is important to understand the various roles and perspectives of the professionals that may be required to deal with during employee's...

  Tags: Employee, Crain Communications Inc., Workforce Management, Insurance, Financial Planning, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance

• What You Need to Know About Crisis Communication

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  Too many businesses take their employees for granted. It is easy to assume that they are well informed, loyal, and positively motivated to help the business succeed in any way possible. There are some issues to sort through when cultivating employees as company ambassadors rather than town critics. These include:...

  Tags: Employee, Crain Communications Inc., Crisis Communication, Corporate Communications, Marketing

• Chief Learning Officers Link Training and Business Goals

  BNET - 2002-11-01

  The article says that its better to organize training and developmental opportunities that matches business goals of the organization, as well as offer employees a map for reaching their own career aspirations. We could be better at telling employees, when they start here, how they can grow and develop professionally....

  Tags: Employee, Crain Communications Inc., Training, Professional Development, Workforce Management, Roi/Tco, Training And Certification, Career, Human Resources, Finance, Managerial Accounting

• How to Conduct an Effective Pay Survey

  BNET - 2002-04-01

  One of the hardest jobs in managing employees is making sure they're happy. Although there are many aspects to creating happy employees, a fair and competitive wage is still the number one yardstick in measuring satisfaction. How do one make sure he is paying his employees fairly? The answer's enough...

  Tags: Employee, Crain Communications Inc., Survey, Benefits, Marketing Research, Human Resources, Marketing

• Overtime Lawsuits: Are You At Risk?

  BNET - 2001-10-01

  The misclassification of non-exempt employees as exempt is more than just an annoying problem for HR. It is a multi-million dollar gamble. Categorizing employees as exempt or non-exempt is no longer just a prickly payroll decision. Misclassification of employees as exempt from overtime pay when they are entitled to it...

  Tags: Lawsuit, Overtime, Employee, Crain Communications Inc., Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Finance

• Long-Distance Recognition

  BNET - 2000-08-01

  The article is about performance evaluation of an employee. With the changing nature of work today, managers have adapted a new circumstances for recognizing employee performance. Increasingly, empowered employees are working more independently in their jobs with the authority and autonomy to act in the best interests of the company....

  Tags: Employee, Crain Communications Inc., Performance Management, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management