Does Your Sexual Harassment Program Pass or Fail?
If you employ a sexual harasser, you’re risking disasters on five fronts – legal, financial, workplace morale, and public relations including on social media. Here’s what to do.
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Category: Human Resources
Global Trend – Businesses Lose Trillions to Worker Fraud
Rampant fraud committed at companies suggest the need for financial controls — to prevent and unmask fraud. Here are the solutions.
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Checklist for Introverted Managers Who Want to be Leaders
The true sign of good management is the healthy morale of your employees – whether they’re happy, motivated and productive every day. If you’re an introverted manager aspiring to be effective as a leader, here’s a checklist with 11 tips.
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Art of Persuasion: How to Get People to Actually Listen to You
Have you ever felt invisible – where people aren’t listening to your viewpoints? Here are five recommendations to maximize your art of persuasion.
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Employees – Overtime Pay Issues and FLSA Exempt Status
Many employers continue to violate wage and hour rules. To avoid costly and time-consuming legal hassles, you might want to review your overtime pay policy and all your exempt-employees’ status to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
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HR Tips to Manage Suspicious FMLA Leave
One most-challenging issues facing employers is the fishy use of leave by employees under protection of the Family and Medical Leave Act. The FMLA has been costly to businesses. It has led to productivity issues and disruptions in scheduling and expenses. Here’s what you can do.
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Shy in Networking? Here Are 4 Tips that Will Work for You
Good news if crowds make you nervous: The advantage in networking goes to introverts instead of extroverts. That’s right. As an introvert, you have advantages in networking and also advantages in becoming a leader. Here’s why and how.
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Management: Coach Your Employees to Better Performance
In talent management, coaching, counseling and giving feedback is of utmost importance. But it’s a difficult challenge if you don’t have a coaching culture.
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HR: Avoid Bias in Evaluating Top Employees Who Backslide
Don’t be too lenient with talented employees with a history of strong performance but who decline in their work. Document every event in any downtrend of performance. Inevitably, many terminated employees will file claims accusing you of discrimination.
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Tips to Limit Employer Liability on Employee Cellphone Use
Smartphones should improve your employees’ performance and facilitate profits. But that’s not always the case because of some employees’ behavior. There are increasing risks to companies over the use of smartphones by their workers. So, it’s imperative to develop and train employees regarding a smartphone policy.
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Basics to Consider Before Writing Nondisclosure Agreements
If you have business secrets to protect you might want to use a confidentiality policy, a nondisclosure agreement and possibly a noncompete agreement. Here are the pros and cons.
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As Tech Disrupts, HR Strategies to Meet Future Staff Needs
Tech innovations such as artificial intelligence, 3D printing and driverless cars threaten businesses that already have challenges in human resources. It’s critical to identify the future skills and roles companies will need in their staffing, and to make needed changes. Here’s how.
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