Posts Tagged ‘Employees’
The Problem with Hiring Relatives
Hiring relatives of employees can be a dangerous policy for so many reasons. Early in my academic career, the small department where I taught hired a husband and wife as teachers.
Read More 10 Quick Ideas for Producing Video Content
Video has become such a popular online medium, and while many site owners recognize the value, sometimes getting started with content ideas is the hardest part. If you have absolutely no idea what type of video content to create, below are some quick ideas to get started shooting video fast.
Read More Make Your First Hire Your Best Hire
If you’re running your own business and finding there aren’t enough hours in the day to get all your work done, it may be time to hire your first employee. But for many business owners, that idea is daunting. What if you hire the wrong person?
Read More Payroll Cards: A Raw Deal for Employees?
Bad news for employers using payroll cards to pay their employees: A federal regulator is now saying employers can’t require employees to use them, and must offer an additional payroll option as an alternative, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Read More Salary vs. Hourly: How Are You Paying Your Employees?
What is the best way to pay the people who work for you? Should you pay them by the hour, or would putting everybody on salary be a better idea? There are benefits and drawbacks to both options.
Read More How to Give Performance Evaluations and Employee Feedback
Feedback is an essential component of any organization, no matter whether it’s a big one or small one, as it enables workers and managers to understand what they are doing well and how things could be improved.
Read More Gain a Competitive Advantage through Workforce Management
Workforce management is one of the main functions of the human resources manager of any company and yet it does not always get the attention that it deserves.
Read More Right Person, Right Place, Right Time
Finding and keeping the right people is critical to your business’s success and ability to grow. To do so, you must have the ability to effectively recruit, hire, train, and develop talent, as well as assess, coach, and retain skilled employees.
Read More Leading By Example
What we, as leaders, do every day, how we behave, the things we get involved in, how we set priorities—our people watch, observe, and emulate. What we do always trumps what we say.
Read More Protecting Your Data When Staff Leave
As with any business crisis, if you get a robust plan in place to deal with it before it happens, it can lessen the damage done. The same goes for planning what you need to do to protect company data when a staff member leaves.
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