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Are Your Managers Giving Staff the Silent Treatment?
Human resources professionals are in the communication business, when it comes down to it. Like other managers, a big part of the job is sharing information with their staff, providing guidance, and listening to their input and concerns. Sadly, that’s an area where...
Paid Sick Leave: Give Your Company a Check-up
Human resources managers, here’s a scenario you probably know all too well. One of your employees staggers into the office, hacking and wheezing, with barely enough energy to drag themselves to their desk in the morning. They spread the flu or whatever bug has knocked...
Succession Planning: 5 Steps to Securing Your Company’s Future
Human resources managers: who’s going to lead your company in years to come? Succession planning, simply put, is the process of coming up with an answer to that question. The problem is, determining which people at your company have what it takes to lead, then...
Get It On Record: Document Performance Problems Right Away
Human resources managers all too often feel like “the bad guy” because they’re the ones who have to discipline employees. Even though issuing warnings about poor performance or problematic behavior is part of their job description, it can be tempting to wave away a...
Keep Your People: Improve Retention Through Better Balance
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, human resources manager, but odds are, your employees aren’t happy. Studies show more than half of workers in the US workforce are actively looking to jump ship from their current company to a better position elsewhere. There’s a...
Performance Management: Power to Your People!
Hey, human resources manager—stand in the center of an office and yell, “Who loves performance reviews?” I am willing to bet one American dollar that you won’t get one hand raised in response. Most workers and managers see performance reviews and management plans as...
At-Will Employment: Three Notable Exceptions
Human resources professionals know that "at-will employment” is a concept that covers more complex ground than the seemingly straight-forward phrase implies. At face value, it appears to imply a company can bid farewell to a worker for any given reason—or even no...
Company Culture: What It Is and Why It Matters
Businesses often have regulars—customers that stop in fairly often, spend their money, and stick around longer than the brief moment the simple transaction requires. They might linger for hours, make friends with other regulars, even get to know the employees by name....
Sorting Out FMLA Employee Eligibility
HR managers—even the most seasoned ones—can find navigating Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) rules and requirements out. People get sick, families grow, and other life events happen in employees’ lives—FMLA is a labor law that requires companies (if covered) to...
What to Do if Workers Falsify Their Timesheets
Payroll management, in an ideal world, would be smooth, easy and accurate. Tracking systems would never glitch, no one would ever have an oops and forget to clock in or out, and employees would always be 100% honest about their timesheets. Sorry to be the one to break...
