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  • Examining the Adverse Impacts of Layoffs

    9/28/2010 1:24:17 AM

    Think Before You Fire: Designing an Adverse Impact Analysis

    In our tough economy, laying off employees has become a knee-jerk reaction when budgets get tight. But, what are the true effects of employee layoffs and how might choosing them wreak havoc later on? Losing a skilled, experienced and loyal employee can hurt your bottom line over time.

    In this post we’ll discuss how you can help your managers and the leadership at your company make smart choices about staffing so that the company stays healthy long term.

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  • How to Deal with Employee Emotions

    9/23/2010 1:00:00 PM

    How to Deal with Employee Emotions in the Workplace

    How do you manage your workforce effectively so that you have the expectation of high performance while demonstrating your genuine compassion for an employee? While you may think that you want a little bit of both at all times – both compassion and pushing the employee - this “sweet spot” is not a balance. Compassion and motivation are not at opposite ends of the same spectrum. One does not need to be sacrificed for the sake of the other.

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  • Writing Creative Job Postings

    9/20/2010 9:17:40 PM

    Put Your Job Postings to Work for You

    I am always telling people to think outside of the box when working through human resources issues. For some reason, we have gotten ourselves stuck in the box in several area, including job postings, which is no fun and not helpful to our organizations.

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  • Pay-for-Performance Plans Make a Comeback

    9/16/2010 11:52:13 PM

    Back to Normal: Review Your Pay-for-Peformance Plan Now

    Thinking about merit increases again for the first time in a very long time?

    The evening news reports that the economic recovery is shaky, with steps forward and steps back, but some companies are doing well again. If the annual pay-for-performance plan at your work was put on hold, but you can now consider starting it up again, here are some back-to-basics steps to follow.

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  • Emotional Intelligence in the Business Workplace

    9/13/2010 9:19:16 PM

    Emotional Intelligence: Two Approaches in the Workplace

    Humans are emotional creatures and emotions can get messy. Is it possible to keep that mess to a minimum at work? Let’s look at whether we, as managers in the workplace, should spend time helping our employees deal with their emotions or if it is best to let the employees work out their emotions on their own. Those two extreme approaches have the pros and cons.

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  • Emotion in the Workplace

    9/8/2010 10:16:58 PM

    Emotion in the Workplace: How Much Should Managers Focus On It?

    Have you ever been accused of being too “touchy-feely?” Or have you avoided that label as if it were an insult? If the term “touchy-feely” gets used around your office, it probably doesn’t get defined and may mean different things to different people.

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  • 6 Tips for Writing Employee Evaluations

    9/3/2010 10:48:28 PM

    Writing Effective Employee Evaluations

    Employee evaluations are tools that are often seen in the business world as “necessary evils.” For most part, they are only really pushed by human resource professionals who need paper trails for employees who are performing adequately, or poorly.

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  • The Top HR Changes Due to Healthcare Reform

    9/2/2010 11:22:02 PM

    Fall Open Enrollment Season: Health Care Reform Starts to Take Effect

    October traditionally marks the beginning of health insurance open enrollment season, during which employees can review and change their health plan benefits. Employers that don’t require an “active” enrollment and/or that have not made substantive plan changes for some time may find that their employees pay scant attention, automatically selecting the plans they had the previous year without looking to see what’s new.

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