Topics: Succession Planning, Learning Management System, Employee Performance Management
Tammy Erickson of Harvard Business Online wrote an article titled, “Ten Reasons Gen Xers Are Unhappy at Work”, which highlights how Generation X perceives “most corporate careers paths narrow’ at the top.”
Today, employees of Generation X are in their 30s and 40s and are in a position […]
Topics: Maya, honesty, personality test, personality profile, employment, interview, integrity, Maya, Mexico, test
One of my strangest HR projects involved kiosks and personality tests to determine if an employee had a predisposition for theft and criminal activity. Our strategic ally was a company that had started out doing polygraphs or lie detector tests and […]
Topics: hire employee, trust, employee, hiring, information, hire, background check, job, work, quality
No matter what you are doing for your business or where it is based out of, chances are very good that you are going to have to hire employees and chances are good that you are going to have to worry about finding […]
Topics: employee, good employee, stay happy, working, safe, job, at work, suggestion box, safety measure, conditions
There are many things that you have to worry about as you have a business in the world today. Keeping your employees happy is certainly one of the things that you are going to want to focus on. This is […]
Topics: powerpoint training
Some businesses have trouble keeping employees for a long period of time. It might reflect the management style, the current economy, or simply be a reality common to organizations in that industry. Managers in these companies question the value of training courses. After all, they reason, why pay for PowerPoint training if the […]
Keywords: employee assessments, employee selection, employee development, employee retention, employee productivit
In business there are two very necessary and very different forces which must be balanced so that business will perform perfectly - people and processes. But far too often they are not in balance.
CEO’s are ranking people issues as one of their major concerns […]
Keywords: counseling employees, problem employees, employee discipline
The difficulties that come with a problem employee may seem easily corrected by termination. However, if you believe the employee’s performance can be altered, counseling employees is an intermediate step before firing.
Counseling employees takes a strong attitude and a plan of action. Your plan of action must […]
Keywords: california at-will employment, employment laws for employers
Employers operating in California should understand California at-will employment. It’s a simple idea, but one that’s often misunderstood by employers and employees.
At-will employment is a term applied to any employee who doesn’t have a clearly defined contractual employment agreement. It means, essentially, than an employer can […]
Keywords: employee background investigations, background investigation
In this day and age it is difficult to tell what kind of people we are dealing with. An impressive resume can be copied from the internet and a nice suit can be bought. This potential employee can give you intelligent answers to all your questions. You may think […]
Keywords: Stess, pressure, work life balance, workers’ compensation, claims, staff turnover, attrition
Some of us thrive on a bit of pressure - it can improve our performance because that’s the way we’re designed. However, too much over an extended time can take its toll.
In Victoria, 8% of all workers’ compensation claims are stress related - […]
Keywords: outsourcing to india, India outsourcing, business culture, Indian offshore teams, offshore teams
When I present seminars on Indian business culture to American managers and technical professionals involved in offshoring or offshore outsourcing to India, someone inevitably asks, “So what are our offshore teams and counterparts in India being taught about American business culture?”
The answer is, […]
Keywords: Succession planning, employee development, planning, potential, career planning
We tend to think of succession planning as having a few plans in place for if a key person gets hit by a bus or someone retires. In practice it has to be more than this if you want to avoid continually trying to “catch up”.
Unless you […]