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Buiding the Right Culture -- The Key to Retention
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| Almost every Human Resource expert will tell you that employees must enjoy their work to be effective doing it. Enjoying work is not limited to the task itself. What this really means is simply "enjoying work is exceptionally dependent upon the culture which the works resides in." In other words, the company must build a culture that the employees embrace. One that encourages self development, empowerment, social inter action, accountability and recognition. If your employees don't enjoy working for you and at your place of business, retention will become an issue. |
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Hiring is not Easy ---- Interviewing Techniques to Improve Your Success
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| Hiring the right individual, with the right skill set, that has the right attitude and the right personality to fit in can be one of the most challenging endeavors any manager will ever face. Leveraging your chance of success by using the team approach, profile testing and seriously checking references helps. But, if you have several qualified candidates it's still like flipping a coin. You just can't be positive about your choice until you see the individual in action. Sometimes it takes months, even years to see the real person you hired whether it's really good or really bad. Finding the really bad ones months after you have hired them can be extremely expensive.
Face it. What you are trying to accomplish in the selection process is to predict the way an individual will behave in the future in your environment. |
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Gutless Management
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| I would doubt that there are many companies out there that don't have at least one or two employee issues that have been overlooked or ignored in the past for a myriad of reasons. Let me tell you a secret, the majority of your good employees know long before you do which employees are carrying their weight and are worth keeping. How many times have you struggled with an employee problem only to finally let them go and your employees said ---- "it's about time." |
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Leisure Is As Important As Work
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| Leisure is no longer a dirty word in business. In fact its part of a new human resource trend to improve business productivity. Leisure has been out of favour since the Industrial Age work ethic killed it off generations ago as "a waste of productive time”. There's at least five good reasons why it's back in vogue.
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Succession or Termination in the Family Business
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| Succession Planning is often like riding a Roller Coaster
Selecting one child over another to become President and run the business will likely be the most difficult decision you will ever have to make as the owner. There will be ups and downs in the process. However, before you come to the conclusion that you are actually going to hand Aunt Lilly or your son the Presidency, you must be sure that you have exhausted every possible option and scenario imaginable to ensure the future success of the business.
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Engaged Employees Increase Bottom Line Performance
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| New research shows close to half of today's employees are not happy at work, and the cost to employers is substantial. |
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Do You REALLY Value Your Employees
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| Listen carefully, if you don’t treat your employees like your most important asset --- Then they certainly will not act nor will they perform like your most important asset. And that means you are missing the greatest opportunity in the world to leverage talent in creating competitive advantage in your market place. Make no mistake, it is your employees that create core competencies and core competencies create competitive advantage.
However, I have to go further and say; you really can’t treat them like an asset but like associates that you really care about. |
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How to Deal: Performance Reviews
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| On both sides of the conference table, Performance reviews are considered one of the most disliked, or often feared parts of working within an organization. On one side, the employer or manager, may have not kept accurate records of an employee’s progress is stuck on highlight performance highs and lows, and how to encourage the employee to set new goals based on the performance review. Employees may feel they did not receive the performance review they truly deserve…perhaps viewing their employer or manager as overly critical. How does an organization get past these issues and make performance reviews enjoyable? Astronology investigates the concerns in performance reviews. |
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Employee Theft Investigation. A Practical Guide.
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| Employee theft is responsible for over $600B loss to business each year. This article outlines some basic information about employee theft, awareness areas, and how investigations are resolved. |
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8 Reasons You Are Not Getting a Job Offer
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| Are you really too old, too young, overqualified or lacking the right education? Is the deck really stacked against you? Not likely!! Chances are you only need to improve the way you present yourself.
Recently, a lady approached me after one of our seminar presentations on Career Management. She had been through 63 job interviews and wanted me to look at her resume to see what was preventing her from getting job offers. Hearing that she had 63 interviews let me know I did not need to look at her resume at all; it was doing an excellent job, getting interviews is the only purpose of a resume. So her problem was not in the resume, but something in her personal presentation.
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How to Keep a Healthy Bottom Line
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| Her day is non-stop from 7.10 am to 7.10 am next morning. How much would her boss care? Probably very little. But the boss isn't necessarily the ogre. Every working person carries their work and personal problems 24/7. A healthy bottom line depends on regarding all people at work as humans, not resources. |
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Keeping the "Human" In Human Resources
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| How to remain grounded and recognize that human resources is not about numbers, it's about people. |
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Seven Items To Consider When Interviewing Potential Staff Members
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| Do you put a lot of effort into interviewing candidates for a position yet end up with those you hire leaving the organization within a few months or year? In the nonprofit field, most organizations have limited budgets, often resulting in lower salaries and a high turnover in staff members. If you want to attract qualified individuals whose primary focus is on people and human service oriented work versus a higher salary, I have found there are certain steps supervisors should take when interviewing potential candidates. The following article identifies my top seven items to consider during the interview process, to ensure you identify the most qualified applicants. |
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Sales Training Is Much More About Great Attitudes than Superior Sales Skills
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| Do you believe great sales is about having the best sales skills or sales attitudes? Read why Attitudes are the foundation for great sales. |
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HR Departments Need Business Acumen Too
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| The problem with a lot of HR departments is that companies relegate them too far to a “back office” mentality. This only renders the people who work in them out of touch with the front of the house where an understanding of the business and the people driving it is critical. So, in order for human resource employees to be the necessary link that connects internal functions with external performance, those working in HR should be as business minded and savvy as they are administrative and up on HR laws. |
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Why an Outstanding Resume is Not Enough to Get an Interview: Reason 6
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| Many people think that a powerful, well written résumé is sufficient to give them the edge needed to secure a job interview. While an outstanding résumé is absolutely necessary, it may not always be sufficient. This is the sixth in a series of short articles which outlines the factors, other than your resume, which could determine whether you will be amongst the chosen few from the multitude. |
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Social Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
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| Leaders and entire organizations have discovered that success in the workplace has significantly less to do with intelligence or core job competencies and more to do with emotional and behavioral intelligence. The best technicians and the most brilliant team members will often end up with the highest degree of dysfunction when their emotional intelligence is very low. The fattest human resource files have very little to do with job knowledge and generally, have a great deal to do with poor behavioral adaptation and emotional intelligence. |
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Who Can Profit From Home Business Opportunities?
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When it comes down to it, home based businesses can be profitable for anyone with the entrepreneurial mindset and the desire to start their own business, but there are also certain stages of life at which a home business is more convenient or appropriate than other business alternatives. Times when life is too busy to run a regular 9-5, when you’re fairly free of responsibility, or when you just need a little extra income are all great times to start a work at home business. Below are a few different kinds of people at life stages in which a home business could prove very helpful. |
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Termination Procrastination
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| "Profit covers many sins". That means that many of us may have become a little complacent and tend to procrastinate when it comes to problem employees... Maybe we didn't quite run our business following absolute best practice. Maybe some of us overlooked less than the best performance expected from our employees. Maybe we were a little too compassionate regarding employee effectiveness and as a result we haven't "weeded the garden" to allow our good employees to flourish. Instead, we just procrastinated on making these kinds of decisions.
If your company is one that got caught in that viscous web of easy success and thought that prosperity in the market wouldn't end and you didn't quite pay attention to basic best practice business acumen, you may have fallen prey to the "Procrastinating Concept of Profit Covers Many Sins". |
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The Challenge of Hiring
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| Interviewing a new job candidate sounds easy. After all, you are in control. You have something to offer. You can select anyone you choose to select. Right? That sounds good but in reality interviewing a person to fill a job opening is one of the more difficult tasks you may face as a manager. It does require specific skills to do it right and increase your chance of hiring the ideal person for the job; the person that will stay and fit in with the culture of your company. Whether you employ one person, or five hundred, choosing the right employees can be a challenge. How do you k now for sure which person you interview is the right one for your company? |
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Demonstrating Leadership when Handling a Disgruntled Employee
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| "Are you kidding me?" ---- "I can't believe you are doing this to me!" -----"This just isn't fair"
Have you ever heard those words or similar words from an employee? Have you ever had to handle a situation where an employee is so upset they become very emotional? If you haven't and you are in management, you will. It's just a matter of time. |
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Dealing with Reality in an Economic Downturn
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| Whether or not you believe we are in a full-blown recession or an economic downturn, the facts create stress in your business and with your employees. The best approach is to discuss it openly. Looking for solutions will only help show your employees that you care. |
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Updating Your Employee Handbook? Four Reasons to Hire an HR Consultant
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| Is it time to update your employee handbook? Have you been planning to get around to the task for ages, but it just never makes it to the top of your list? Here are four reasons why you may need to hire a consultant to work with you on this important project. |
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How to avoid the most common mistakes which professionals make in their presentations?
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| You can avoid the most common mistakes which professionals make when giving presentations if you incorporate these ideas. |
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Compensation Definitions: Basic Must Knows for the Entrepreneur or Employee
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| Have you ever been in a staff meeting or other location and had a visit from a Human Resource Professional to discuss Compensation? Or maybe you’ve inquired about salaries or hourly rates – and have you been bombarded with terminology. Here are some basic compensation terms with definitions that will help you sail through those meetings looking like the entrepreneur that you are.
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Decreasing Labor Costs Without Layoffs
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| At a time when the nation’s economy is softening, and perhaps worse, many entrepreneurs are considering layoffs as a way to cut costs. But eliminating jobs does not always result in immediate cost-savings. There are often severance packages to finance and unemployment benefits to cover. In addition, the morale of the employees left behind always suffers.
There are ways to decrease labor costs that can save jobs, however. And, in many instances, these strategies can save money immediately, keep unemployment insurance rates down, improve or at least maintain employee morale and save jobs. |
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Human Resources Manager
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| As the human resources manager of any small company, you are responsible for creating a solid backbone for that business. It is a challenging job, but not one that you have to do alone. Great people have come before you and have even written books about their experiences! So, here I’m going to outline for you what I have found to be some of the most useful and informative books to help you succeed in this role! |
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Human Resources Degree
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| You know you want a career in human resources, but you’re not sure whether to get a specialized education in it or not? It’s a tricky question that many people in the industry are asking these days: just what exactly is the value of a human resources degree? Because this industry is so diverse and one job title rarely means the same thing across companies, the educational requirements are equally as variable. While some may see this as a dilemma, I would encourage you rather to see it as an opportunity for a myriad of choices and the chance to find the one that is best for you. |
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Human Resources Software
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| We’ve heard it all before: it takes almost three times as much money to recruit and train new employees than it does to retain and train the ones you already have. As such, small business owners are often willing to do whatever it takes to streamline their operations and ensure they are looking after their staff. Productive and efficient employees are those that are not only well qualified and trained, but also managed. To achieve that, many entrepreneurs turn to human resources software to help them better understand how their company’s human resources are performing, and where improvements need to be made. |
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Establishing A High Motivation Human Resources Program
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| This article provides the nuts and bolts of establishing a high motivation human resources program which can enable a firm to attract the best employees available and create a positive work environment in which employee morale and productivity can be maximized. |
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Other human resource Related Articles
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Introduction: HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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| Human resource development (HRD) and foreign direct investment (FDI) are
among the key drivers of growth in developed and developing countries. |
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HR Departments: Making Structure Make Sense
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| Human Resource departments are not being optimized because of the way they tend to be structured. Usually “HR” refers to things like benefits, payroll, hiring, firing, training, reviews, compensation and the like. But we in corporate America missed the opportunity to better organize Human Resources when it moved away from its roots in “Personnel.” But not to worry. It's not too late. |
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Coaching In The Workplace
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| Actually coaching in the workplace helps to manage the most prized resource within the organization and that is the human resource. If human resources are well looked after then all other resources such as raw materials, capital, land, etc can be well maintained and be used optimally. However the opposite is also true. If you do not manage your people well, then the end result will be chaos.
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The Right Strategic Human Resource Imperatives for Right Now
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| Given the current economic climate, human resource executives and CEOs need to be thinking about some key people issues in order to improve their chances for organizational success. The key questions are these:
1) If I'm laying off staff, will I have retained the people who have the competencies required to execute our strategies?
2) If our strategies are changing, do I know the competencies people will need to have in order to successfully execute those new strategies?
3) Can I accurately identify our true High Potentials, and do I know what to do to keep them at this time?
The good news is that there are clear answers for these questions and practical approaches to take today to make strategic human resource contributions to the success of your organization. |
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A New Definition of Success: How to Listen to Your Inner Self and Create Your Own Brand of Success
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| Defining success as a human being rather than a human doing requires the ability to tune out the constant barrage of external demands on time, talent and resources. It is important to turn inward, to reflect, and to determine with one's own internal set of values and standards what is worthwhile and what is a waste of the precious resource of time. |
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Human Resource SWOT Analysis
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| With many smaller sized organizations not having a full-time in-house Human Resource representative, the choice may be to outsource this function to an HR Consultant. Choosing to go this route is a wise investment. But how does one know where to start in terms of the organization’s human resource requirements? Well, complete a S.W.O.T. Analysis, of course! |
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Jobs, Activities & Policies in HRM
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| Human resource management is a management function that helps managers plan, recruit, select, train develop, remunerate and maintain members for an organization. Human resource Management jobs, activities and policies in the industry. How to run organizational program for employees and development information about HR Management. |
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Honoring Ted Kennedy
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| On August 25, 2009, Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy passed away. Ted Kennedy, as the public called him, and his work had a great influence on the human resource practices of today. In this special issue of Astronology, we pay tribute to Ted Kennedy by examining 6 areas of influence he had on Human Resources. The Senate will not be the same without Ted Kennedy. |
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The Question of Accountability
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| Human Capital is the only asset that has the potential to appreciate in value whereas most assets depreciate over time. There two key groups that impact the value of your people and both must be business savvy in order to understand how to leverage this asset for the best results possible. They are Managers and Human Resource Professionals. |
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6 Months on Capitol Hill
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| Every year Astronology examines legislation coming from Capitol Hill, and how these changes influence Human Resource practices. Two major developments in the first half of 2011 affecting Human Resources are the possible adjustments to Healthcare reform, such as the CLASS Act, and the Legal Workforce Act of 2011. What challenges should we expect as a result of these pieces of legislation? |
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