Are Your Employee Performance Reviews Up to the Mark?

Too often, businesses waste much of the effort they put into conducting performance reviews. Performance reviews can be a lot of effort, because they take time away from other business activities, which are often seen as more important. So, many business owners conduct the reviews, evaluate the results, maybe give out raises which may or may not be tied to the reviews, and file everything away never to be looked at again. Read the story.

How to Write an Employee Handbook and Set Company Policy

An Employee Handbook; if you don't have one, you should. After reading this article and reviewing the attached attorney-developed guidelines for how to make an Employee Handbook, you will have all you need to develop one for your business. Further, you will have the "do's and don'ts guidelines" for how to implement and post your Handbook, as well. Read the story.

Time-Saving Solutions for Managing Your Electronic Office

NPE 2010 seminar presenter, Giselle Chapman, offers a wide variety of necessary tools – tools you already have on your computer – that will help you get time back in your work day. These are 'must implement' items for everyone's entire management team. Includes 35-minute audio webcast interview. Read the story.

Recruitment and Retention Strategies:
How to Attract, Keep and Motivate Today's Workforce

A recent study shows 85% of HR executives state the single greatest challenge they have in managing the workforce is their organization's inability to recruit and retain good employees and managers. Read the story.

Leading Your Workforce During an Economic Crisis

Regular contributor, Greg Smith, offers ten steps you can take to bring confidence and increased stability to your workforce during times of economic crisis.
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The Importance and Strategy of Conducting Exit Interviews

An Exit Interview is a final meeting between an employer and a departing employee. Conducting one allows employers to gain valuable information that can be helpful to improve or protect the firm in the future.
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General Guidelines for Disciplining and Firing Employees

An audio interview with Steven Horowitz, labor law attorney, conducted at the 2007 National Pavement Exposition.
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10 Biggest Causes of Workplace Stress

If worker stress is a problem in your organization, you'll want to take action on the tips offered by Dale Collie, former CEO, Army Ranger and university professor.
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Employee Involvement Programs Drive Performance

A nationally recognized expert on employee management tells how to better involve employees in your company.
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100% Accountability: Something to Strive For

Mike Scott believes we can all learn to become 100% accountable for all of our actions, 100% of the time. That means, he says, doing what you say you're going to do no matter what. Read the story.

Employee Seminar on Hiring and Firing Techniques

Two of America's most experienced sweeping contractors team up to talk about what they do when hiring, including ways to find good employees, retention ideas, steps to follow when firing, incentive and motivational ideas, and training tips. Two-part series. Read the story.

Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers:
Proven Ways to Retain Your Best Employees

Employers face enormous challenges when they consider the increasing difficulty of finding skilled people, a more demanding younger workforce, and a growing population of older workers heading toward retirement. Read the story.

Flexible Work Arrangements Help Retain Good People.

The facts are, offering a flexible work schedule can drastically help employee retention.
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Great Expectations – Interview Strategies that Stop Turnover!

If the concept of turnover is all too familiar, you may want to reconsider your interview approach.
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Bossing Less, Managing More

After 25 years on the job, Bob Fien, CEO of Stone Construction Equipment, talks about how to make your organization more competitive through better employee involvement. Read the story.

Effective Interviewing

Attorney provides legal details on how to conduct your interviewing so as o minimize liability at a later time. Read the story.