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How to Deal With Defiant Employees

Gail — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:31:50 +0000

How to Deal With Defiant Employees

By Yong May Ken

As a management team, do you have problem dealing with defiant employees? This type of incidents have to be handled immediately, tactfully and professionally. Any delay will encourage other employees in the organisation to follow suit. Inappropriate handling will lead to chaos in the workplace, losing your reputation, credibility and ability to manage your workers in the long run.

Below I will like to share with you best approaches to tackle such situation.

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Simple Ideas to Motivate Staff

Gail — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:54:53 +0000

Simple Ideas to Motivate Staff

By Leanne Welsh

So why does keeping your staff motivated matter? The success of any business can be traced back to its staff and their productivity. Motivated staff will equal happy staff. Happy staff equals productive staff. Productive staff will translate into sales and income.

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Combat Worker Absenteeism With These Top 10 Easy Steps!

Gail — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:40:28 +0000

Combat Worker Absenteeism With These Top 10 Easy Steps!

By Matt E MacLeod

If you are flexible and accommodating when making allowances for time off, your employees will strive to work WITH you, not AGAINST you!

How many times have you answered the phone to hear underlings with obviously faked coughs assure you that they are REALLY, TRULY sick… when you know their excuses are contrived? Yes, such lies and deception can set you to fuming, but always remember that the best way to keep your employees coming to work is by making them WANT to come to work!

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Does Your Dress Code Address “Flip Flops”?

Gail — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:18:22 +0000

Does Your Dress Code Address “Flip Flops”?

By M. Glenn Shepard

One of the most important things a manager can do to set healthy boundaries in the office is to define a dress code. It’s more critical today than ever before. Young men today show up for job interviews wearing shorts and muscle shirts.

Others look like they just crawled out of bed wearing baggy jeans pulled down to reveal their boxer shorts, baseball cap turned sideways and three-day stubble. Young women show up wearing mini skirts as if they just came from a nightclub. Others wear low-rise jeans, flip flops, and spaghetti strap tops with their bellies hanging out.

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The New Labor Economy – 4 Generations in the Workforce-6 Calls to Action You Can’t Afford to Ignore

Gail — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:06:00 +0000

The New Labor Economy – 4 Generations in the Workforce-6 Calls to Action You Can’t Afford to Ignore

By Stephen Frey

DRAMATIC CHANGE

In the coming years, the workforce will undergo the most dramatic changes it has experienced in more than half a century. Understanding that people costs account for some 65 percent of corporate spending, and that workforce optimization has a direct impact on shareholder as well as a company’s bottom line, those looming changes will prove critical to the future success of organizations in every sector of the economy, public and private.

Listen to conversations between business owners, managers, HR Professionals even C-Level Executives — just about anyone involved with the hiring, developing/training, and managing of “people” and one thing is crystal clear:

Today’s workforce creates more challenges than anytime in our history!

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Tips For Hiring in High Turnover

Gail — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:00:12 +0000

Tips For Hiring in High Turnover

By Jonas Axelsson

Seeking out and bringing talented employees onboard is not an easy task, it takes effort, time and money. Being responsible for a flow of fresh talent in a company with high turnover rate is an extremely challenging task. Here are 8 tips that helped me succeed with my recruitment project when hiring for a company with a low staff retention rate.

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Outstanding-Employee Awards Build Morale, Drive Excellence

Gail — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:11:18 +0000

Outstanding-Employee Awards Build Morale, Drive Excellence

By Jackie Wells Smith

Outstanding-employee, or employee-recognition, awards are some of the best ways not only to honor the work of your employees, but also to provide an incentive or goal for the entire workforce to help you exceed your business objectives.

You can use the psychological effect of a tangible trophy or plaque and the accompanying ceremony to energize the morale and refine the focus of every employee, so he or she can possibly be similarly recognized.

Employee awards are usually organized in two broad categories: planned and unplanned awards. Planned awards recognize an employee’s remarkable record during a given period of time that has advanced both the company’s growth and the employee’s professional growth.

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Welcoming New Employees – 5 Great Ways to Success

Gail — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:18:04 +0000

Welcoming New Employees – 5 Great Ways to Success

By Maryrose MalinaoA great success factor that moves your business or company to the top of competition is the way you handle your employees. Hiring great quality employers is one of your company’s tough edges for success that letting them stay for long-term work lies on how you manage employees on their first one or two weeks in the company.

Welcoming your employees is a crucial part of promoting your company’s success. This task is not solely based on the human resource department but more on your collaboration as a business owner, company manager or supervisor.

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Tips to Deal With Stubborn Employees

Gail — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:46:29 +0000

Tips to Deal With Stubborn Employees

By Sanjana Goyal

An organization is bound to harbor people from various walks of life. They are different by pedigree and have different set of values. In order to handle this diversity of characters, an organization essentially hires a human resources department who deals with the nuisance-inviting employees.

Such employees could behave in the way due to the following reasons:

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High Performance Culture Starts With Onboarding New Employees

Gail — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:37:31 +0000

High Performance Culture Starts With Onboarding New Employees by Linda Finkle

Every company I know wants a high performance culture. Leaders want employees to be highly productive and perform their jobs well. Makes sense, for sure. The more productive our employees are and the fewer mistakes they make will increase the output. The result is we will be able to get more done with fewer resources.

How do we create a high performance culture, though? It starts with hiring the right people. I’m sure that goes without saying, but the piece that many companies miss is the importance of the onboarding process and the effect this can have on speeding up the time to productivity in new employees.

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