The 3 Ps to an Employee Engagement Communication Strategy

The 3 Ps to an Employee Engagement Communication Strategy

It’s no surprise to anyone in Human Resources that high engagement leads to increased retention, productivity, and business success. Assessing the level of engagement or commitment your employees have to your organization through Employee Engagement Surveys is only half the battle. The other, more crucial, half of the battle is how you communicate Employee Engagement Surveys and the results to your employees.

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When Should Sick Employees Stay Home?

When Should Sick Employees Stay Home?

When an employee calls in sick we would all like to be able to say, “Yes, of course, please stay home, rest up and get-well-soon. We’ve got your job duties covered, yes—you’ll get paid, and see you back at work in a day or two.” But if it was always that easy, it wouldn’t make for much of an article now would it?

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The Performance Management Problem: What Is It and How Do We Fix It?

Performance Management Problem

Performance management is a necessary and valuable practice for both administrative and developmental purposes in organizations. However, many employees involved in traditional performance management, whether as raters or ratees, have negative reactions to it.

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3 HR Processes You Need to Revamp in 2018

3 HR Processes You Need to Revamp in 2018

Often HR processes become stagnant and untouched due to the “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it” mindset. Sometimes that works out perfectly fine, and well, sometimes it doesn’t. Dust off the old untouched processes and implement something new and refreshing. Your new hires and current employees will appreciate it.

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6 Performance Management Tools for the Modern HR Department

6 Performance Management Tools for the Modern HR Department

Performance management has grown significantly from the traditional annual performance review model that many organizations adopted at one point in time. Performance management is no longer a one-track mindset. In order to practice performance management well, you need to have a strategy in place and a method behind the madness.

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3 Things to Consider When Handling Overtime Pay

3 Things to Consider When Handling Overtime Pay

As is the case with many employment related statutes, exactly how and what your organization must adhere to depends largely on an often complex combination of state and federal law, as well as any employer specific policies. Overtime pay is certainly no exception. Overtime actually functions much like minimum wage in that the employer must pay to the higher standard (either state or federal), i.e. the standard that results in the largest pay out to the employee working overtime hours.

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5 Tips for Engaging Tenured Employees

5 Tips for Engaging Tenured Employees

For many managers or HR professionals, they’ve encountered an entitled tenured employee once or twice in their career. You know, the employee who thinks because they were a top performer in 2007 that they can slack off and still reap the benefits as someone producing twice the results but is half their age. Just because they have company “loyalty.”

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