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  • Open Door Policy? Open Mind Policy?  By : Mike Moore
    Hpow to Maximize staff potential using the power of an open mind
  • Emerging Trends In Nursing Jobs  By : Bill Sterzenbach
    The nursing profession is experiencing explosive growth. Finding the right niche in this blossoming industry can make a substantial difference in income, retirement, benefites, and more
  • Effective Induction - More Than Showing Them the Lunch Room  By : Paul Phillips
    Having a new employee leave in the first week is not uncommon and is damaging for everyone. Getting them off to a good start is important for their perception of the organization and just plain good business.
  • Should Smoke Breaks Be Regulated?  By : Dave Elger
    Presents some ideas on how to handle the sensitive smoke break issue at the workplace.
  • Reputation Reputation  By : Kim Jones
    Rumours have been abounding all week that another major competitor has just bitten the dust spectacularly but, until its confirmed - and maybe even afterwards - I think its best to leave that alone.
  • Recruiting the right people for the right job  By : Bob Corcoran
    To be successful in this profession, you need the right people doing the right jobs. How do you hire the right people?
  • Getting and Keeping Good People  By : Paul Phillips
    With the increasing competitiion for talent, businesses need to be working on strategies to attract and retain good people. It should not have to come down to just money. There are a number of actions you can take now.
  • How Showing a Little Appreciation Motivates Employees  By : Martin Haworth
    There are a whole load of resources you can find on 'motivation'. Books, tapes, internet etc. Yet it need not be so complicated...
  • The Employer's Role in Verifying Employment  By : Tom Perkins
    Paperwork. Nobody likes it, but everyone has to do it. Documentation on a new hire can be the most cumbersome, but is an absolute must. Detailed paperwork not only allows the new employee to collect a paycheck and be eligible for fringe benefits, it protects you, the employer.
  • Why Does Work Not Get Done?  By : Helmut Flasch
    There are perhaps as many reasons why work does not get done as there are unfinished tasks laying around. Work not getting done, even in a small business, over a lifetime means millions of dollars lost.
  • Equality and Diversity  By : Robin Chandler
    A look at Impact Factory's approach equality and diversity issues. Our focus is on examining people's perspectives on difference, diversity, change management and the attitudes and feelings which are sometimes difficult for people around equal opportunities work.
  • Psycho Babble - Psychometric (Personality) Assessment Testing  By : Kim Jones
    As every one of Britain's 100 largest companies and some 80% of all the rest, use some sort of personality test on prospective employees, we thought it would be a good idea to have a look at the subject.
  • Setting "Expectations of Success" For That New Employee  By : Paul Phillips
    Recruitment is expensive and challenging. Setting some standards early on will help you do a better job and also show how successful you are.
  • How to Write a Results-Oriented Job Description  By : Roger Plachy
    Writing a job description ranks with flossing teeth, taking out the garbage, and paying the heating bill-necessary but uninspiring tasks. However, unlike maintenance tasks that merely prevent problems, a well-written job description establishes a new philosophy for employment actions.
  • Employment Agencies On The Rise  By : Kevin Dark
    There are a lot of employment agencies that are willing to help you with your search for a job. If you are unemployed, there is a small problem with these people though and that is that if you get a job through them then they will take a small percentage of your salary.
  • Outsource Your Hiring Process  By : Dana Wallert
    More small businesses and hiring managers are choosing to outsource some or all of their hiring process. Hiring a "virtual hiring manager" allows them to focus on their ongoing responsibilities and have piece of mind that an experienced person is going to direct to them the most qualified individuals for their open positions.
  • Poor Performing Employees Severely Impact Productivity  By : Robert Cameron
    In business there are two very necessary and very different forces which must be balanced so that business will perform perfectly - people and processes. But far too often they are not in balance. CEO's are ranking people issues as one of their major concerns in 2005 as they struggle with productivity, profits, and labor shortages. Robert A. Cameron & Associates takes a new approach to quantifying and solving this growing business issue.
  • Team Building 101  By : Bob Corcoran
    Building and running a team that boosts your income
  • The Family Medical Leave Act  By : Tom Perkins
    The Family and Medical Leave Act is a federal law which provides certain employees with up to 12 workweeks of unpaid, job-protected leave a year and requires group health benefits be maintained during the leave period.
  • Hiring Employees: Checking References To Insure Quality People  By : Jeff Casmer
    After preliminary interviews, you should be able to narrow the field to three or four top candidates. And that is the time to do a little detective work to insure you have the right (and honest) employees coming in.
  • Selling Yourself! (Televised Job Interview)  By : Kim Jones
    Watched recruitment's equivalent of Pop Idol last night - "Selling Yourself"(Tuesdays, Channel Five). It was appalling.
  • The Green Card Rush Has Started  By : Gordon Goodfellow
    The U.S. Government has issued 65,000 green cards this year for the purpose of allowing people of foreign birth to live and work in the United States. But what is a green card? How does it work and what is the application process?
  • Use a Job Description, Especially a Results-Oriented One, to Hire and Manage Employees  By : Roger Plachy
    Job candidates and employees come in a variety of dimensions, so orienting on them is haphazard. A concrete, job-specific reference is required. The job description provides such a base for writing help wanted ads, stating job qualifications, interviewing job applicants, orienting new employees, planning job training, and appraising job performance.
  • Using a Job Search Site Makes Job Finding Effortless  By : David Arnold Livingston
    In this era of technology and the World Wide Web, everything can be done over the Internet, from virtual shopping to chatting with people across a thousand miles. One of the activities that has already become a standard is online job application.
  • What is Human Resources Consulting?  By : Maureen Cook
    Human Resources: sounds depersonalizing, doesn't it, to describe workers in this way? It smacks of older attitudes to the workforce which are now seen as increasingly outdated.

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