Articles Index
Help People Thrive at Work: Encourage Employee Involvement
How to recruit, retain, reward, and motivate staff regularly tops your interest list. Doing these well is the most important strategic role of the manager or the Human Resources professional. In what other capacity can you contribute more to the success of your organization than in encouraging employee involvement and employee engagement? Employee involvement and employee engagement matter to your organization's success.
Use Performance Management
Are you fed up with the return on investment you experience with your current performance appraisal? Ready to change your approach? You can improve productivity, motivation, and morale by handling performance management and development in new ways.
Are You Getting the Best Benefit From Your Benefits?
Is your benefits package giving you the payback you deserve in increased employee appreciation and satisfaction? Chances are, it's not. Employees only understand and appreciate part of the employer's cost of the benefits they receive. Learn more!
Your Image Is You
Successful people believe their success is attributable to a pattern of mutually beneficial interpersonal relationships, as much as it is due to technical skills or business knowledge. Your communication and the image you present create the first impression - often the lasting impression - on the people you meet. Want a more professional image?
How to Get Along With Your Boss
At one point or another in your career, you will report to a manager, the person you fondly - or not - call boss. The relationships that you create and manage, with both your immediate supervisor and other employees who have managerial or leadership responsibility in your company, are critical for your work success and career progress. And, face it, whether you like it or not, you're in charge of your relationship with your boss.
How to Overcome Your Employment Gap
Concerned about getting back in the workforce after a gap in your employment? You should be when you consider the bad experiences some employers have had when they take a chance. Additionally, the job market appears to have qualified candidates for most positions. How will your resume as a stay at home Mom or Dad, with a ten year employment gap, stack up against those of people who have been racking up career achievements and accomplishments for the same ten years?
Harness the Power of an Employee Suggestion Program: Beyond the Suggestion Box
The pitfalls of an ill-conceived employee suggestion program are multiple, legendary and most frequently - avoidable. A carefully constructed employee suggestion program, that is launched with organizational commitment, clarity and ongoing communication can positively impact your bottom line and your employee motivation and enthusiasm. An ill-conceived, hastily launched, undefined employee suggestion program can turn people off and generate ill will, cynicism and misunderstanding.
Twenty Dumb Things Organizations Do to Mess Up Their Relationship With People
Even the best organizations periodically make mistakes in dealing with people. They mess up their opportunity to create effective, successful, positive employee relations. Here are twenty mistakes that organizations make - mistakes that mess up their relationship with their employees. Avoid these mistakes for effective, successful employee relations.
Job Offer Letter: Early Career
Looking for a sample job offer letter for the early career employee? Your candidates appreciate the job offer terms spelled out in detail. Use this early career job offer letter as a base for developing your own employment offer.
Help Develop Employee Strengths - Not Weaknesses
A management philosophy, that flies in the face of conventional thinking, compels you to help develop employee strengths, not their weaknesses, by deliberate practice. This theory was proposed by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman in "First, Break All The Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently" as a result of the Gallup organization's interviews with 80,000 effective managers. Learn more about helping develop employee strengths.
Why Swine Flu H1N1 Should Matter to Employers
Employers have a legal obligation to provide a safe, disease-free workplace for employees. Consequently, you need to take proactive steps to prevent the potential spread of any contagious disease, including Swine Flu H1N1, in your workplace. Employers also need to address business continuity in the event that a Swine Flu H1N1 outbreak affects the ability of your employees to come to work.
Network Your Way to a New Job or Career
Many people think of business networking as circulating around a room and exchanging business cards. But a broader view of business networking is creating a pool of contacts from which you can draw leads, referrals, ideas, and information for your job search. You can network without ever attending an official business or social networking event, although attending events is useful in networking. Find out more about how to do business networking successfully.
Beyond Traditional SMART Goals
Once upon a time, in a business management world that seems more remote with every passing day, SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-based goals) supported business success. No more. Goal setting is the foundation for personal and business success. It is time, however, in the business environment existing today, to expand the meaning of SMART goals. And, perhaps, one word per letter is no longer enough to define a useful acronym. Read more about goal setting..
Build a Strategic Framework: Mission Statement, Vision, Values ...
Both people and organizations need to establish a strategic framework for significant success. Identifying your vision, mission statement, values, strategies, goals and action plans will fuel your future accomplishments. Want to know how?
Top Job Interview Questions to Help You Select the Best
The job interview is a powerful factor in the employee selection process. You can use behavioral-based job interview questions to help you select superior candidates. Ask interview questions that help you identify whether the candidate has the behaviors, skills, and experience needed for the job you are filling. Review sample job interview questions, both legal job interview questions and illegal job interview questions.
How to Resign From Your Job
When you resign from your job, you terminate or end your employment. You can resign from your job in a way that reinforces your professional image and keeps current employer relationships positive. You can resign from your job and keep doors open for future opportunities by building, not destroying, relationships with colleagues and customers. Use these tips to effectively resign from your job.
Empowerment Job Interview Questions
These sample job interview questions about empowerment enable the employer to assess your candidate’s comfort with the concept of employee empowerment. Ranked high as an attribute that many employers seek in their prospective employees, empowerment fuels autonomy, decision making, and goal achievement in employees. Feel free to use these job interview questions about employee empowerment in your own candidate interviews.
Letter of Introduction for a Dress Code
The Company's objective, in establishing a dress code, is to enable employees to project a professional, business-like image while experiencing the comfort and advantages of more casual and relaxed clothing. This letter is a sample letter to introduce the concept of the dress code to your managers and supervisors.
Why Sexy Isn't Better: How Sexual Behavior Can Submarine Your Career
Women who wear short skirts that display a lot of leg may be overlooked for promotion and pay increases. So says a recent study conducted by Tulane University. Overt sexual behavior at work, whether men and women are consciously aware of it, or not, can submarine your career. Learn more about sexual behavior and its impact at work.
Dress Code for Customer Interaction and Trade Shows
Even if you work in a casual dress code environment or a business casual work environment, the rules may change when you hit the road for your company with a business mission. Whether you are exhibiting at a trade show, attending a conference or training session, or visiting a customer, the dress code in effect at your \office may change for travel and meeting customers. Take a look at this sample dress code for travel and customer interaction.
A Formal, Professional Dress Code
Your Company's objective in establishing a formal dress code is to enable our employees to project the professional image that is in keeping with the needs of our clients and customers. Because our industry requires the appearance of trusted business professionals and we serve clients at our site on a daily basis, a more formal dress code is necessary for our employees. See a formal dress code.
A Relaxed, Casual Dress Code
Your Company's objective in establishing a relaxed, casual, and informal work dress code is to enable our employees to work comfortably in the workplace. Yet, certain standards are established so employees are not confused about the meaning of the terms: relaxed, casual, and informal dress. Because no customers or clients are served in person at our company location, our chief concern is the comfort of our employees. See a casual work dress code.
Casual Dress Code: Manufacturing
Your Company's objective in establishing a casual dress code is to allow our employees to work comfortably. Yet, we still need our employees to project a professional image for our customers and clients who visit. Because all casual clothing is not suitable for the workplace, these guidelines will help you determine what is appropriate. Learn more about casual dress in this dress code that differentiates between clothing for industry and manufacturing and clothing for the office.
Dress for Work Success: A Business Casual Dress Code
Your Company's objective in establishing a business casual dress code, is to allow our employees to work comfortably in the workplace. Yet, we still need our employees to project a professional image for our customers, potential employees, and visitors. Because all casual clothing is not suitable for the office, these guidelines will help you determine what is appropriate to wear to work. Business casual dress is the dress code standard. Learn more about business casual dress in this dress code.
Severance Pay
Severance pay is money that an employer might want to provide for an employee who is leaving their employ. Normal circumstances that might warrant severance pay include layoffs, job elimination, and mutual agreement to part ways for whatever reason. Severance pay usually amounts to a week or two of pay for each year of service to the company. In some instances, a severance package might include extended benefits and outplacement assistance.