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- Off Duty, Out of Work
- The article is about an employee engages in legal but controversial off-duty behavior and decision has to be made that whether to fire him or retain him.In such situations, HR must walk a fine line—one that varies with the facts in each specific case. Ultimately, when deciding whether to terminate...
- Case studies 2003-02-01
- Sink-or-Swim Attitude Strands New Managers
- "Training new supervisors has a positive effect on all of the supervisor's staff and produces more results than the supervisor was able to accomplish as an individual performer. While many companies offer some sort of management training, often it's ineffective. But by adjusting when the training is conducted, what is...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Agenda: Training And Development
- The article is about providing training to employees so that they can write well inorder to protect your company's credibility and effectiveness. Writing skills are becoming increasingly important in the workplace. More employees are required to write effectively, even if their jobs never included writing previously. One reason for this...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- A Recruiting Spigot.
- The ebb and flow of business can make it difficult for a company to maintain a consistent recruiting strategy and budget. A business slowdown may leave in-house recruiters expensively twiddling their thumbs on full salary—or out of jobs. A new product launch might require hiring 100 skilled professionals—to start yesterday....
- White papers 2003-04-01
- HR Agenda: Employment And Staffing
- The article provide various suggestions to improve recruiting.Technology can improve efficiencies and productivity for businesses; however, there are things that technology can't do—especially in the area of corporate recruiting. When the subject is how to most immediately influence corporate recruiting, it is important to first talk about people and best...
- Case studies 2003-05-01
- Retirement Plans.
- HR should help employees start planning for retirement long before their final days on the job.Planning for retirement involves more than redistributing the assets in a 401k plan. To make the most of life after leaving the full-time workforce, experts say, employees should start long before their final days on...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Yearning for Learning
- "In today's workplace, however, training programs must clear a few hurdles to get people in the room. Feeling productivity pressures, your employees and their supervisors may view training as wasted time away from the job. Going to training one day means working harder to catch up the next, as they...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- Evaluating Evaluations
- Human resources often overlooks a key component of an effective training program: designing good training surveys. But if you don't collect accurate data and feedback on the effectiveness of your training programs, you just may be throwing good money after bad. Nothing is more demoralizing for staff than sitting in...
- Case studies 2002-06-01
- Finding Another Way.
- Article emphasises that HR's role in workplace giving is becoming bigger and more complex. As a result, HR professionals will need to know financial and other details about organizations that benefit from workplace programs. They'll also have to stay current on technologies for informing employees about charitable organizations, collecting and...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Making Sure Employees Measure Up
- "Article emphasises that employers struggling to attract and retain talent can't afford to de-motivate employees. Yet this is precisely the result of flawed or weak performance evaluation systems. When reviews are not fair, accurate and timely, they fail to reward star performers, fail to provide encouragement and guidance to borderline...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- The Kindest Cut
- "This article shows what to consider when devising a severance policy. But taking a fresh look at this important benefit may be a good idea, even if your organization does not anticipate any layoffs. Most employers provide cash, medical benefits and outplacement services to employees who lose their...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- (Top) Pay For (Best) Performance
- Rewarding good workers is the best way to increase productivity and to secure dominance in its potentially lucrative market. The payments will fulfill a promise to the workforce that better employee performance results in better compensation. In fact, compensation experts argue that paying for performance is more important in a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Building A Retention Culture
- Media HR executives need to better understand and have their managers understand how critical the recruiting and hiring process is to finding and keeping good people. A leader's ability to contribute to an organization's mission, and ultimately to the bottom line, is determined by his or her ability to attract,...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- SDWT's: A Team Effort
- Over the past 15 years, a growing number of American companies have participated in a grand experiment: self-managed work teams SMWTs. These are production or service-delivery groups that operate without direct supervision—an idea almost unthinkable a generation ago. Teams make many structural and operational decisions that previously were made by...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Candidate Glut
- The article asserts that the has time changed. In the past two years, the talent market has gone from famine to feast, with staffing specialists working to match a flood of applicants to fewer positions. In this transformed climate, many HR departments are amending their recruiting and screening processes to...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Outsourcing Background Checks
- The article underlines the fact that avoiding workplace disasters involving theft, violence and fraud—and the legal repercussions they can bring—many HR professionals hire outside screening companies to help them discover any skeletons in the closets of potential employees. While using a third party for such checks can provide practical and...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Does 360-Degree Feedback Negatively Affect Company Performance
- In the contemporary business era, the 360-degree feedback appraisal system is in vogue. 360-degree feedback is a multi-source feedback mechanism in which each employee, right from the manager, and the peers evaluate and appraise the employee. Such feedback system gives a multi-dimensional perspective on the employee performance. The paper explores...
- White papers 2002-06-01
- Toning Up Communications
- From the executive summary: ‘Writing skills are becoming increasingly important in the workplace. More employees are required to write effectively, even if their jobs never included writing previously. One reason for the change is that nearly every worker is connected via e-mail to each other and to the customers.' Hence,...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- Becoming A Talent Magnet: How To Attract And Retain Great Employees
- From the executive summary: ‘It takes more than a generous benefits package and competitive salaries to attract and retain talented employees. The same requires addressing the fundamental need people have for pride, meaning and purpose, appreciation, opportunities to learn and grow, and respect. Leaders at talent magnet organizations realize this,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Workplaces Fail To Support Parents Of Teens
- From the executive summary: ‘Raising a teenager not only is stressful but also can be a distraction for an employee. Newly minted driver's licenses, latchkey after-school arrangements, bullies and school violence, unhealthy relationships, and concealed depression are just some of the shadowy dreads that preoccupy parents of adolescents, who often...
- White papers 2002-09-01
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