Traditional performance management processes have come under fire for being outdated, time consuming, and ineffective. Rather than contributing to the … Read more
How You Can Quickly and Easily Use Mobile to Engage More Candidates
According to Recruiter.com, 79 percent of smartphone owners have their phones with them 22 hours a day. Times are changing, and now, more than ever, many … Read more
Where Do Your Employees Fit On the Engagement Resistance Curve?
Employee engagement begins with the individual employee. If the organization — corporation, not-for-profit, university, sports team, what-have-you — … Read more
Do Peoples’ Faces Fall When You Tell Them You Work in HR?
So, I’m on vacation, on a train passing through northern Utah on the way to Aspen. If you’re not familiar with traveling by train, they have lovely dining … Read more
Carefully Navigating, and Managing, the End of the Employee Relationship
Companies often spend lots of time and money on the beginning of the employment relationship — onboarding — and this investment makes sense. … Read more
How Employees Are Using Social Media to Fight Workplace Harassment
By Eric B. Meyer It’s almost 2016. By now, who among us: the lawyers, the HR professionals, the owners, has yet to deal with an allegation of workplace … Read more
Celebrating the Holidays at Work: Can We Ever Get It Right?
Recently, I sent out a survey to my e-newsletter subscribers to find out what employees don’t enjoy about celebrating the holidays, both in general and at … Read more
Does it Make Sense to Make Comp Decisions Without Any Link to Performance?
My job involves helping companies use technology to increase workforce productivity. This has taught me there is no one “best practice” when it comes to … Read more
When All Employees Feel Empowered, the Entire Organization Benefits
“I was raised to treat the janitor with the same respect as the CEO.” That quote was from Janelle Monae at the recent BET awards ceremony, in which she … Read more
For More Motivated, Engaged Employees, Give Them More Autonomy
Whether your goal is to increase employee motivation, engagement, or morale, one of most effective actions you can take is to give employees more autonomy. … Read more