Salary Transparency Can Motivate Your Employees
Motivated employees tend to stick around, and can help keep themselves and others engaged.
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The Cost-Effective Secret Weapon for Improving Engagement
The better your employee engagement, the less hiring you’ll have to do. Let’s take a look at a recent poll.
4 Tips for Giving Bad Employees Feedback
Discipline, writes Marcel Schwantes on Inc.com, is a cornerstone of highly productive companies Yet most managers dread dealing with problem employees. But if conducted with a constructive and forward-looking focus, Schwantes contends, discipline provides consistency, guidance, and valuable feedback both to and from the employee.
There’s a Bot for That—Or There Could Be
Since 1998, Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, has been releasing its “Mindset List.” It’s a wake-up call or level-setting list to help professors and administrators better understand who their new students are. The revelations can be jaw-dropping. For instance, the most recent list tells us this about the upcoming graduating glass of 2020:
First Things First: Court Outlines Test for ADA Interference Claims
At the end of September, the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin), outlined—for the first time—the test for analyzing disability-based interference claims under the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
IRS Releases Standard Mileage Rates, FAVR Allowances for 2018
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released its inflation-adjusted standard mileage allowances for 2018, as well as maximum vehicle value thresholds to be used in calculating fixed and variable rate (FAVR) allowances.
Dallas EEOC Office ‘Hovers Over’ Alleged Age Bias by TV Station
The Dallas office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently sued a local TV station for age discrimination. The station’s on-air traffic reporter who circled over Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) traffic resigned, and a replacement needed to be found. The replacement, a 24-year-old, was allegedly unqualified for the position. The EEOC claims that a very […]
Using Surveys to Attain Relevant and Actionable Training Feedback
Surveys are regularly used as a means of attaining feedback from employees on training that they’ve attended or participated in. While surveys generally represent what is referred to as an “applause meter”—an indication of whether employees liked the training, as opposed to whether the training had an impact—they are a useful means of learning about […]
Salary Transparency Can Motivate Your Employees
The debate over the value of salary transparency has heated up in recent years, with neither side giving much ground. But Kristin Wong describes some studies that weigh in favor of transparency on New York magazine’s Science of Us blog.
How to Deal with Needy Employees
HR professionals and managers have a lot on their plates, to put it mildly. So what can they do when they have needy employees who eat up disproportionate chunks of their time? You know the type—they ask you to review their work, seek constant feedback, or just show up at your desk to chat. Rebecca […]