Human Resources Articles

Business » Human Resources | By Arnold Hernandez @ Friday, 16th May 2008 @ 10:34 AM

Running a business means extensive records management and recording. Regardless of the what type of business you run there is a need to keep records for decision making and to comply with federal and state laws. Every business is in the business of record keeping and failure to do so, can come back to bite you. Keep track of the compensation paid to employees is no exception. Often employers to try to avoid having to pay taxes and having to comply with minimum wage, overtime, and me... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Lee Salz @ Monday, 12th May 2008 @ 4:13 AM

I was never very good in science class which is probably why I'm not a doctor today. Yet, I remember vividly the exercise on heated atoms. The experiment started with a flask of water and a Bunsen burner. When the flame from the Bunsen burner was applied to the flask, the atoms would dart all over the place in excitement. The excitement was uncontrollable. The energy remained as long as the heat was applied. As soon as the Bunsen burner was removed, the atoms moved back to a static state. A... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Gregory Smyth @ Thursday, 24th April 2008 @ 3:52 AM

No matter it is a small firm or a large corporate set up, retention and motivation of executives are perhaps the two difficult tasks that any business owner faces. An executive, alternatively known by different names such as chief executive, CEO, and managing director, is a person who fills the position in a business organization. In other words, executives mostly possess rare skill sets, and in fact, are valuable employees of any organization. An executive plays indispensable role in tak... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Albert Alexander @ Friday, 18th April 2008 @ 4:15 PM

As outsourcing becomes a more and more popular options for both small business and large corporations, Craigslist is leading the way for employers and contract employees to connect. Craigslist is an expansive community and those who advertise on Craigslist are fully aware of the large audience reached by Craigslist. Potential employees are equally aware of the size of the Craigslist community and often turn to Craigslist first in their job search especially when they are looking for work to be c... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Stewart Baker @ Friday, 18th April 2008 @ 3:29 AM

Roofing is a very successful, but highly volatile sector of the construction industry. There are many challenges facing roofing business owners both externally in the market as well as internally within the company. The constantly changing financial market, insurance practices, environmental shifts and political climates make it very difficult to operate a stable roofing company with any success. For these reasons, a large number of company owners are turning to roofing employee leasing to he... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Gary Terrazas @ Tuesday, 15th April 2008 @ 2:44 PM

Some employers may ask, why should they have a choice when after all a company vehicle is no more than a tool to allow the employee to do their job? Well there are a number of reasons. Firstly if the company is using Contract Hire for their company vehicles as most are nowadays. There can often be very little difference in cost between the car the employer intends to provide and the car the employee really wants. Bearing in mind that surveys have revealed that over 20% of employee... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Obinna Heche @ Tuesday, 15th April 2008 @ 10:09 AM

As a business owner you have to have a certain level of people skills in order to deal with customers as well as with your employees. Too many times, people will put on their resume the blanket skills that they are a people person while having no idea what that means. It is a catch phrase often used in recruiting advertising looking for managers with excellent people skills and not only the people hiring for the job, but also the people applying for the position have no clue what a people person... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Gregory Smyth @ Friday, 11th April 2008 @ 7:13 AM

Hiring the right person is very important for the upliftment of any type of establishment, no matter whether it is a software company or an educational institution. Hiring is basically centered on your communication skills, the achievements you have made so far and the functional experience you possess. In any field, there are in general three types of people. At one end of the scale, there are persons who lack the minimum common sense one should have, not possessing even the most basic... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Stewart Baker @ Saturday, 5th April 2008 @ 1:24 AM

A construction PEO is a Professional Employer Organization. Essentially, their job is to manage the employment aspect of a business for a fee from the business owner. The business usually already has employees that work for them, and the PEO will assume employment of those employees. Typically the jobs of the employees change very little. In fact, as an employee you may notice no change except perhaps a different name on your paycheck and a change in your employee benefits. Any changes empl... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Sean Tan @ Saturday, 29th March 2008 @ 5:46 AM

It has become an unavoidable necessity nowadays to perform background checks on people. People want to perform background checks on the potential candidates they are hiring for jobs in their organization. Some of them also want to perform record registry on their employers. With the large number of shady transactions occurring in workplaces nowadays, why not! Then, colleges want to check the backgrounds of their applicants; people even want to check the backgrounds of those they are planning to ... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Sean Tan @ Tuesday, 25th March 2008 @ 7:06 PM

We have to deal with so several people each day that there is definitely no place for skepticism. But these people we are associating ourselves with could have real shady pasts. This is how people are conned, aren't they? They collaborate with people they know little about, and then they are cheated big time. Howsoever, the good news is that technology has made it completely possible to find out every kind of background information about people. Within as little as two days, you can find ou... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Jack Deal @ Saturday, 22nd March 2008 @ 1:17 AM

There are employees and then there are breakthrough employees. Once in a blue moon the average company hires someone that can make a dramatic difference. This is usually done by chance in the routine hiring process...someone retires, quits or is fired and someone else is hired to take their place. The sheer number of hires means that on occasion someone with superior abilities will get hired. These breakthrough employees have the skills to help a company make a 'quantum' leap... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Neal Holladay @ Friday, 21st March 2008 @ 5:57 PM

The employment world is now reeling from a sudden new wave of government regulations and workplace enforcement efforts. Despite the failure of Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, new polices from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and bold new precedents in state legislation have changed the hiring landscape almost over-night. An unprecedented increase in arrests of top-level executives and new policies on employment verification are all a part of this immigration &qu... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Rosanne Dausilio, Ph.D. @ Thursday, 20th March 2008 @ 8:07 AM

Historically, customer service was delivered over the phone or in person. Customers didn't have many choices, and switching to competitors was cumbersome. Today, these methods are but two of the many possible points of entry for any given interaction. With all the options the Internet brings, competition is literally a click away. However, online customer service is not good--to put it mildly. In fact, some people say it stinks. Why? The web is but one dimension. It doesn't... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Neal Holladay @ Tuesday, 18th March 2008 @ 4:20 PM

Over the last 4 years leading up to the 2008 presidential election, the "immigration debate" has been increasing in volume almost exponentially. The attempts by congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform have failed despite fervent bipartisan efforts to address this very controversial yet important issue. However, under tremendous political pressure, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced new efforts to enforce existing immigration laws and state and lo... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Ingrid Cliff @ Wednesday, 12th March 2008 @ 5:10 PM

I was talking with a manager the other day about their employee performance review processes. This company had been doing them for some time and wanted to take their reviews to the next level. What about a 360? I was met with a very stunned look. "I didn't think you thought of me that way" came the reply. It was my turn to look stunned. "No - a 360 degree performance review process" was my reply. A 360 is where a person gets feedback on their perf... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Ingrid Cliff @ Wednesday, 12th March 2008 @ 5:07 PM

When businesses hire their first employees, they often start without having thought through fully all of the implications of what they are doing. This new person is going to be representing you and your company to your customers and clients, will be in your premises and will gain access to all of your knowledge and resources. Many people find that what starts out with great promise ends up in disaster when they haven't considered all of the implications. As soon as you hire your firs... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Ingrid Cliff @ Monday, 10th March 2008 @ 12:51 AM

With good performance review processes, you have the employee complete a self rating before you meet. Generally many employees rate themselves quite hard, or on par with your views of their performance. But what do you do if the person has rated themselves as exceptional on many areas and you think they are borderline competent (at best)? This is much trickier to deal with than the person who is too hard on themselves. Before you meet first double check your facts - are you... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Jack Deal @ Friday, 7th March 2008 @ 1:51 AM

As human resources increasingly become the key to business success it is essential that ownership and management look at ways to optimize the recruiting process. One of the most useful concepts in successful human resources is continuous recruitment. Recruiting is not easy but many recruiting problems can be avoided by using continuous recruitment. Most companies wait until they need employees before they look for them. Continuous recruitment makes searching for good e... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Jack Deal @ Tuesday, 4th March 2008 @ 10:52 AM

An old saying goes 'that in good times anybody can make money; in bad times only the best can.' In down times, even more than boom times, employees become the critical edge. And in good times or bad, employees determine profitability. The question is, are yours good enough? And if the numbers are not where they should be, what can you do? The first step is a close examination of your business model and infrastructure. Is it viable and how does it look in the next ... more...