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Last month, BLR was involved in a merger that resulted in a new company with four business units being established. The combined company, Simplify Compliance, serves HR, safety, and environmental professionals as well as the healthcare, telecommunications, and financial services industries.
Yesterday’s Advisor offered success factors for pay for performance. Today, consultant Diana D. Neelman, CCP shows why pay for performance can fail, and we introduce you to a unique 10-minutes-at-a time training system for supervisors. Making Sense of Goals and Objectives Neelman offers the following suggestions for making goals and objectives truly helpful: Make performance […]
Futuristic company Tesla, which makes electric vehicles and energy storage systems, is a dream employer for jobseekers interested in a high-tech career in a company with great locations. Its HR vision of small, focused teams with an emphasis on excellence is renowned. But something its CEO just tweeted is causing a stir online.
In today’s economy, hiring should be easy. But that doesn’t change the fact that the hiring process is fraught with legal pitfalls, especially for unwary and untrained managers. Here are 8 of the most common, as listed by a prominent attorney. (The first 6 today, the balance tomorrow.) Managers think they are doing a good […]
With Valentine’s Day in the air, thoughts naturally turn to the workplace romance: it’s cute, it’s touching … and it’s dangerous. Most such romances eventually break up, and then show their dark side: charges of harassment, hostile environment, favoritism, and retaliation. What do Bill Clinton, Bill O’Reilly, presidential advisor Paul Wolfowitz, and space shuttle astronaut […]
Although sponsors of group health plans have had their hands full sorting through the still-changing Affordable Care Act requirements, the recent uproar involving AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is a stark reminder of the need to stay vigilant on HIPAA privacy — even as companies wrestle publicly with health care costs. As has been widely reported, […]
In 2019, you’ll want to make sure that your learning and development (L&D) team is using the best and most relevant technology and platforms—those that are listed below. Otherwise, it could risk falling behind the competition.
As a firm plan for the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains in limbo, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have responded by issuing a proposed rule for 2018 that outlines reforms “critical to stabilizing the individual and small group health insurance markets to help protect patients,” says CMS.
Online safety training is a dream come true for safety trainers. It provides consistent and up-to-date information, flexibility, evaluation, and systematic documentation—all at a very affordable price. There are many advantages to using this type of self-paced training, including that online training: Allows you to present the same content, in exactly the same way, to […]
Truly successful supervisors and managers don’t “boss” their employees, they lead them. It’s through effective leadership that employees are motivated to perform at their best. It’s through effective leadership that goals are achieved and departments meet productivity, quality, service, and safety standards. In short, developing effective leaders among your managerial and supervisory staff is essential […]