Best Practice: Training Program Provides Workers with Skills and Employers with Feedback
Today’s Advisor reports on how one company’s training program has performed beyond all expectations.
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Bird Box: These Pandemic Planning Tips Are Beautiful, Please Look
If you have not seen the film, chances are you have at least seen the memes and hype surrounding Netflix’s new horror movie, Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock as the protagonist, Malorie. The film begins with the arrival of mysterious creatures, the sight of which drives nearly anyone unlucky enough to view them to commit […]
Performance Management: Balancing Recognition and Impact as an HR Leader
Performance management is like Internet access: essential to the daily operation of any business but taken for granted until it stops working. While everyone understands why you need consistent and high-quality broadband, the obvious benefits of good performance management often go unappreciated.
Young and Savvy vs. Older and Wiser: Workplace Ageism in the Spotlight
Advocacy group AARP recently declared in a headline in its AARP Bulletin, “It’s time to end the last acceptable bias,” referring to age discrimination in the workplace.
Supervisors’ Most Common PA Mistakes (2014 Performance Management Survey)
In yesterday’s Advisor, we shared the results of our 2014 Performance Management survey; today, the rest of the results.
Best Practices for Employee Handbook Revisions
With the turn of the new year and various state employment laws taking effect on January 1, 2025, many employers are revising their employee handbooks. In drafting and revising employee handbooks, they’re often faced with an important decision: Should they offer a minimalistic, bare-bones handbook; a lengthy and nearly exhaustive handbook; or something in the […]
Do Companies Take Too Long to Train Employees?
Companies take a wide variety of approaches to train new employees. Some may refuse to hire those new to the field and insist new hires have at least a couple years of relevant experience. These companies might devote minimal to no effort or resources to training, assuming that, based on their hiring policy, employees come […]
Benefits of Employee Daily Time Tracking for Managers
In a previous post, we discussed the benefits to employees of implementing some form of daily tracking system for themselves. These benefits include personal analysis, priority adjustments, and ease in reporting progress to management.
Break time for nursing mothers: legal requirements and lactation policies
by Jodi R. Bohr Although employers’ obligation to provide breaks for nursing mothers is not new (it took effect with the March 23, 2010, signing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)), I’ve recently been presented with many questions about what the law requires. From the questions, I’ve realized two things: (1) Employers still do not […]
4 Ways to Attract and Retain Millennial and Gen Z Talent in the Quitting Economy
For the first time, there are four generations in the workforce all working at the same time, and each group brings different behaviors, customs, and expectations with them. The newest wave of young professionals is known as Gen Z, and on the other end are the Baby Boomers, whose presence shrinks continuously as they retire.