Articles on Human Resources
- Stay Relevant at Any Age
- Does anyone talk with each other anymore - anyone under age 30, that is? We have employees who sit in adjacent cubicles who IM and email each other all day...
- Develop Your Company Code of Conduct
- A company Code of Conduct is a written collection of the rules, principles, values, and employee expectations, behavior, and relationships that an organization considers significant and believes are fundamental to...
- Need an Employee Gift Policy?
- Do you have an employee gift acceptance policy? I struggled writing my new sample employee gift policy because I have such mixed emotions about gifts to employees.
Some employee gifts...
- Want High Performance Employees?
- If your goal is superior, high performance employees who are focused on contribution and continuous improvement (and I sincerely hope it is), you need to manage people within a performance...
- Tackle a Sea of Negativity
- Last week, I prepped a Michigan business radio interview (that never happened because of time restraints) about how to deal with a bad boss. This topic is a perennial favorite...
- It's Summertime, Summertime
- A recent survey determined that over 78% of self-reporting respondents said that they are not less productive during the summer months. Beyond.com asked "more than 1,700 business professionals across the...
- On the Way to Everywhere
- Carnival of Human Resources - SHRM Redux
I've been a bit lax in posting these, but thought you might be interested in a Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) conference update....
- Do You Provide References?
- Just another week in Human Resources... We have an employee who was fired claiming to have been laid off. Another employee who left with no notice thinks we should give...
- Think Large
- Responding to my note about personal life vision and the personal life visions of my readers, in my newsletter yesterday, Theresa Quadrozzi wrote to me. I found her comment so...
- Use Online Job Applications
- Testing online job application systems this past week out of total curiosity and to be able to write knowledgeably about them, I applied at a bank and at a retail...
- Rehire Fired Employee?
- A reader asks an interesting question. Do any of you have a different point of view, knowledge of trends, or the experience of rehiring an employee you fired? Please post...
- The Trainer's Eternal Dilemma
- Anyone who has ever worked in training can identify the trainer's eternal dilemma. How do you help the pumped up, happy trainees, who pass their training session end test with...
- Differing Views on the HR Role
- There has been much discussion in recent years about the role of Human Resources in today's organizations. Over the years of writing this site, I have heard about almost every...
- HR Management Firsts
- Whether you're new to the field, starting a department, or you'd like a quick reference guide to those important Human Resources management moments when you must get it right,...
- Do You Know Who You're Hiring?
- Think resume checking and candidate background checking are a poor use of your time? Think again. During times of economic challenge, checking the background and credentials of your potential employee...
- Help Employees Succeed
- Talking with managers about employees who are failing in their jobs is part of my consulting practice. No matter what other work I am doing with a company, employee performance...
- Do Candidates Have a Death Wish?
- To make it to an interview, a candidate has already passed a review of his resume, a review of his cover letter, a comparison against all of the other current...
- Parting Ways: When Employees Resign
- We recently had an employee resign to follow his spouse to another state; she had obtained an exceptional opportunity essential for her career. Like most of our employees who, except...
- Focus on Growing Your Strengths
- I am a real proponent of the management philosophy that you help people continue to develop their strengths rather than trying to help them develop their weaknesses. This theory was...
- But, Can They Work?
- Okay, so I'm not always with it. My sister told me last summer, as she attempted to "coach" her 20 year old daughter through the ins and outs of acceptance...
- Why Do You Procrastinate?
- My procrastination arises most of the time when I have taken on a large project that requires blocks of dedicated, uninterrupted time, a commodity that has been short in my...
- At Zappos, Culture Rules
- I found Zappos because a leading online shoe seller had just spent the money to return to me nine pairs of shoes that didn't fit me. Why? Because I had...
- What Is Trust?
- In a culture of trust, transparent communication forms a foundation for building relationships. A sense of safety and a comfort level with interpersonal interaction pervades a worklace that has developed...
- Celebrate Fireworks and Freedom
- I am a serious, unrepentant fireworks fan and I look forward to the 4th of July for the fireworks.
But, July 4th is more than a holiday celebrated with fun, food,...
- You Can Negotiate Work-Life Balance
- Balancing your professional and personal life can be a challenge in today's demanding workplace. With the recession pushing many professionals to work harder than ever and technology enabling work around...
- Welcome New Employees With a Letter
- After an applicant has accepted your job offer and before the new employee starts at your company, you have an opportunity to enhance the relationship before the new employee even...
- Tap the Power of Internal Training
- After leaving education, my home base was in training for a few years so the topic remains near and dear to me. Plus, I still do training from time to...
- Getting Through to the Boss
- I'm watching Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares as I write to you today, and he has, once again, identified that the problem with the failing restaurant's success is the owner or...
- You Need a Cell Phone Policy
- In Michigan, a law passed that makes texting and other activities on the cell phone illegal while driving starting July 1. Specifically, the law bans sending, typing or reading...
- Want a Casual 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.
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- Manage Social Media Job References
- A colleague found herself in a heated discussion about whether employees writing references on social media sites such as LinkedIn violated company reference policies that prohibit employees from providing...
- Use Job Offer Letters
- The job offer letter is provided to the candidate you have selected for your open position.
Most frequently, the candidate and the organization have verbally negotiated the conditions of hire...
- Make Your Current Job Work
- Sometimes, it's not so easy to just pull up stakes and move on to your next job and employer. There are reasons why most of us stay where we are.
Perhaps...
- Do You Discriminate Against Old - Even Subtly?
- With many people unemployed world-wide, certain topics gain importance in the HR world. From the perspective of the employer, the employee, and the unemployed, you want to know how to...
- Relationships Are Fragile
- Relationships in organizations are fragile. Even when you think you have the right culture, values, and policies in place for the organization and the employees, it's still easy to lose...
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