May 7, 2011

Motivate or Cultivate: Thank God It’s Monday! Our latest webinar with our strategic partner, PeopleSync, covers strategies and insight into how you can develop your company culture to cultivate employee habits and attitudes to increase productivity and energize the workforce. We discuss: Creating a culture of self responsibility Setting clear boundaries to...

Feb 4, 2011

I sit here huddled under blankets and working from home as most of the nation is under severe weather conditions consisting of sleet, snow, tornado warnings, icy roads and closed airports.  On such days businesses are faced with a critical question:  How do I handle the issue of whether or not to pay employees who can’t make it to the workplace due to the...

Jan 13, 2011

If you are a nursing mother in the workplace, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) expects your employer to provide you with reasonable break time (unpaid) and a private space for expressing breast milk while at work, for one year after a child’s birth. The frequency of breaks needed to express breast milk varies depends on such factors as the age of the baby....

Dec 12, 2010

Human resources practices training ensures that team leaders know how to make ethical decisions and establish standards. The first thing a team leader should do is clearly lay out to everyone what the standards of ethical behavior are. Then, it’s important to begin an open discussion with the team members about what exactly it means to say you will work...

Nov 3, 2010

Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) Also known as S. 1584/H.R. 3017, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act bill is awaiting final legislative vote in the House and Senate in order to become official Federal law. Why is this legislation needed? Qualified, hardworking Americans are denied job opportunities, fired or otherwise discriminated against because...

Sep 23, 2010

Business owners operating in California know very well that mental stress is not only compensable as a workplace injury/illness, but it is a very common complaint amongst employees there. In fact, there are several states that provide for worker’s compensation coverage for mental stress under certain conditions. It is important that business owners learn how...

Sep 19, 2010

Coping is involved in any kind of change. Any form of adjustment requiring situation demands coping with a change in environment on the part of the person concerned. Some are good at coping and use strategies which relieve them of the stress and some people find it hard to accommodate to the new situation. This can happen at your work place too. You make get...

Sep 16, 2010

There is much controversy around the topic of human resource job descriptions and on whether they are useful. Before you can answer the infamous question you first need to ask what the job description will be used for. One of the things most businesses fail to see is that if written and used correctly, human resource job descriptions can be a powerful...