Human Resources Articles

Business » Human Resources | By Dave Turo-Shields @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 12:03 AM

In Chinese, the word for crisis has two characters. One character is for \"problem,\" the other for \"opportunity.\" As absenteeism, disability claims and employee turnover increase, we find ourselves in a workplace health-care crisis. In a 2001 study entitled, Increasing Participation in Corporate Wellness Programs: A Segmentation Study of Employee Differences, Paula Haynes of the University of Tennessee underlines how important it is to provide a wide variety of service... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Dave Turo-Shields @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 12:01 AM

Emotional health is a state of wellness that comes from understanding and acknowledging our emotions and finding appropriate ways to express them. As employees, we often bring emotional problems from our childhood or current family life into the workplace because we haven\'t dealt with them effectively outside of work. This can seriously damage workplace relationships and lead to poor performance and negative feelings all around. Many tools and techniques exist for helping us improv... more...

Business » Human Resources | By john mce @ Wednesday, 13th August 2008 @ 12:20 AM

It makes sense to reduce the probability of employees leaving through dissatisfaction. It also makes sense to maximise the contribution and satisfaction from your most engaged employees. However, in many ways, it makes even more sense to focus your efforts on the bulk of employees who are neither engaged nor disengaged. The Corporate Leadership Council is a membership of senior executives with a shared commitment to steward enterprise-wide human resources management. This membersh... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Kimberly Schenk @ Tuesday, 5th August 2008 @ 1:48 PM

I prefer to discuss my contingency fee for delivering a great candidate when I\'ve located the Decision Maker and am about two-thirds of the way through completing a job order form. My client has done 90% of the talking up until this point and provided the exact information I need before deciding what my fee will be for this search. While my client has been talking I\'ve been listening closely and taking notes. The beauty of working as a Recruiter lies in our ability to d... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Kimberly Schenk @ Monday, 4th August 2008 @ 1:37 AM

There are dozens if not hundreds of ways to source for candidates. Often sourcing comes down to your budget and your personality. There are many helpful, industry specific websites. Independent contractor websites, networking websites, and topic specific chat rooms, are starting points. I always consider ROI and that includes my investment of time. I know companies who spend wisely on traditional media print ads and utilize every scrap of information that\'s generated from those ads.... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Cash Miller @ Friday, 1st August 2008 @ 11:04 AM

It often seems like a good idea to bring a friend or family member into your business. You\'ve known each other for years and believe that you can rely on them. But being friends with someone or being related to them doesn\'t mean they will make a good employee. And as is often the case they could bring with them more problems than they solve. So here are a few things to consider. The first is you need to ask yourself what will happen if something goes wrong. It might be that th... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Arnold Hernandez @ Monday, 14th July 2008 @ 11:44 AM

Many employers attempt to avoid having to comply with federal and state laws by mis- classifying their employees. Instead of giving them their regular titles they are promoted in title to managers, supervisors, and assistant managers. They then pay them salaries instead of hourly rates and pay no overtime for hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week. Human resource managers should be keenly aware of this as many large business have been successfully sued. A job title of manager d... more...

Business » Human Resources | By MIKE SELVON @ Wednesday, 2nd July 2008 @ 5:56 AM

There are many small to mid-size companies that have times of fast growth and turn to human resources, or HR, outsourcing, rather than hiring new HR staff members internally to deal with their growth spurt. HR outsourcing can be a very effective way of meeting the demands of strategic growth and expansion of a business and can cut the overall costs by allowing the current and experienced staff to focus their expertise on the things that they are best and most productive at doing. In this... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Ronald Young @ Monday, 30th June 2008 @ 2:12 PM

Gas prices, inflation, war, and foreclosures are all factors that can be considered either the causes or the signs of a slowing U.S. Economy. But, what about the fact that in the next seven years 43 percent of the engineers in our workforce will be eligible for retirement? These are the professionals who, in large part, are responsible for our technologically driven culture and even the vaunted U.S. armed forces. This could spell Trouble (with a capital T). These jobs are skill-spec... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Lee Salz @ Monday, 23rd June 2008 @ 10:45 AM

My wife Sharon and I dated for exactly two years before I proposed to her. Over our two year courtship, I got to know her likes and dislikes. I understood her goals in life and her aspirations. She knew the same about me. On July 24, 1996, in the White House Rose Garden (true story), I asked Sharon to marry me. She excitedly agreed. What might have been her response if she didn\'t feel like she knew me well enough to make that kind of commitment? Would she still have accepted? What i... more...