Human Resources Articles

Business » Human Resources | By Dionisio Gomez @ Wednesday, 29th August 2007 @ 5:43 PM

This article will show you the tricks of the trade when using the newspaper classifieds to find good workers. One of the oldest and most established methods of advertising open positions is through print classified advertisements. Many job-seekers still turn to the classified section of the newspaper or the back section of trade magazines to look for career opportunities. Newspaper classifieds are generally inexpensive; trade magazine classifieds can run from a low to considerable ... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Dionisio Gomez @ Tuesday, 28th August 2007 @ 4:04 PM

This article is an introduction to the fact that you need great workers to help you in your business. If you have great workers your business will have a much greater chance of succeeding. No matter what type of business you are in, you have probably heard the saying, The customer is always right. Many business owners and managers base their policies around this belief, and do everything in their power to make their customers happy. However, a better strategy would be to put all your effo... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Wolfgang Jaegel @ Thursday, 23rd August 2007 @ 5:54 PM

Retained search is different than any other type of 'talent hunting' in the market. If done properly and professionally, it is much more effective than any other mechanism to find 'the right fit'. Today there are more and more internet sites linking people and companies, on-line ads, networking sites for CV placements, popping up like mushrooms. It is more than enough to convince you that everyone is on the Web job hunting, and if you're not, well, you'll lo... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Wolfgang Jaegel @ Tuesday, 21st August 2007 @ 10:15 PM

An executive in a firm refers to a member of the professional body, who in turn is responsible for the firm's actions, policies, and regulations, along with other members of the body. Executives usually take up such positions as president or vice president, secretary, chairperson, director, treasurer, and committee member or board member. In other words, executives are visionaries who form the back bone or driving force for the success of a business organization. From the above menti... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Joe Farcht @ Sunday, 19th August 2007 @ 10:40 PM

Critical to business success is selecting the right people, especially executives, managers and supervisors, for leading and managing the work that needs to be done. Selecting someone ill-suited can cost tens of thousands of dollars and much wasted time. Mistakes are made when a rigorous selection process is not used. Often, the selection process consists of a relatively few questions sometimes thought up in the moment and conducted by one interviewer over a relatively short time. ... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Wolfgang Jaegel @ Friday, 17th August 2007 @ 11:35 PM

Some people say Talent is god's gift for a person. A person is said to be talented if he possess awesome ability in a particular activity or field. Every one is talented in one or another way. Nourishing the talent and utilizing it to the best is a challenge. Talent levels will vary from person to person. There is a scarcity of talents in all areas. Competition is always there for getting the talents between organizations, that is why the talent management attains significance. Every... more...

Business » Human Resources | By David Poulos @ Tuesday, 7th August 2007 @ 5:02 PM

With staff sizes and budgets restricted or diminishing, and top executives up and down the ladder under pressure to do more with less each year, many savvy executives are seeking help among the seeming army of consultants of every stripe to get their companies on the profitability track. Are they finding success down that road? The idea of the consultant is ancient - Egyptian kings and pharaohs had "consultants" with specialized magical talents to advise them and point them in the... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Jack Deal @ Friday, 3rd August 2007 @ 5:17 PM

You probably know that employees make or break a business. In most businesses, recruiting and keeping good employees determines the business' success. In the process of building a solid staff inevitably skilled employees threaten to quit or actually do quit. It is these skilled employees we are examining here. The employees you fire for incompetence, bad work ethic, poor performance are not the focus here: you simply get rid of a bad employee and do not rehire them. But skil... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Paul Phillips @ Wednesday, 1st August 2007 @ 12:42 AM

Constant planning is what most business people do so they are ready for changing circumstances. Is human resource planning or workforce planning up there with the budget? Possibly not. Quite often, with workforce planning, it will be treated as another budget line item and not taken much further. The reality is, if it is to be done properly, there are long lead times and it should be a regular feature of any manager's role. Workforce planning for many people is just ab... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Wolfgang Jaegel @ Tuesday, 31st July 2007 @ 10:32 AM

Construction is a highly competent sector in Asia, requiring qualified as well as professional workforce. In other words, construction field is continually looking for efficient candidates with the capability to shape the industry at its highest level. However, it is quite difficult and complicated task to select the right candidate. Here comes the importance of construction executive search firms. Executive search firms are companies that are solely engaged in recruiting and app... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Wolfgang Jaegel @ Tuesday, 31st July 2007 @ 10:17 AM

Companies in Asia, ranging from hi-tech companies to medium and small companies, nowadays face great difficulty in recruiting suitable personnel for their firms. In other words, although most sophisticated techniques are available now in Asian companies, recruiting key staff according to the nature of company's goals has now become a challenging task. A multitude of measures are now adopted to recruit suitable employees for your firm, of which one of the prominent options is hiring ... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Ingrid Cliff @ Wednesday, 25th July 2007 @ 6:40 PM

When you are hiring a new employee you naturally want the best person for the role. In a candidate poor job market you need to realize that while you are interviewing the candidate, they are also interviewing you to see if they really want to work for you. You need to be on your game - to make sure you leave candidates with a great impression of your company. So, let's start with the basics. Interviews are not an exact science. They are not meant to be. The best you can do is to try... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Obinna Heche @ Tuesday, 17th July 2007 @ 10:07 PM

While you may have many positions available that need to be filled, hiring unqualified candidates can have serious effects in the workplace that can end up costing the company a lot of money. Because new employees need to be trained, need office equipment, salary and benefits, a lot is invested on the success of the employee. When they perform poorly, retraining or letting them go are usually the only options that companies have. Either way, the cost is much more than hiring a top performing emp... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Paul Phillips @ Sunday, 1st July 2007 @ 12:28 AM

When clients ask about pay issues, quite often they jump straight to paying "bonuses" to reward performance. Let's start off with some definitions we use. Firstly, we feel strongly that any base salary review should have a significant focus on performance. If this is done properly the need for further incentives or "performance pay" is often removed. Secondly, part of the definition of bonus in the English Oxford Dictionary is "over and above that which is ... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Ingrid Cliff @ Wednesday, 20th June 2007 @ 2:01 AM

When businesses grow enough to hire employees, they often do so on a handshake type arrangement, without having thought through fully all of the implications of the deal. This person is going to be representing you and your company to your clients, will be in your premises and gain access to all of your knowledge and resources. How can you make sure that what starts out with great promise will continue to grow in a positive way and not shrivel and die? There are lots of strategies to mana... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Obinna Heche @ Monday, 18th June 2007 @ 10:03 PM

No matter what kind of business you have, hiring the right people is the key to making it successful. You need good employees and if you start out with the right group of people, your business will become successful much quicker than if you have to go through a process of hiring and firing people because they just are not the right people to meet your needs. One o the mistakes you want to avoid is hiring your friends and relatives just because they expect it. Certainly, if they are qualif... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Paul Phillips @ Friday, 1st June 2007 @ 1:08 AM

Back in 1966 Frederick Herzberg found that pay was a key hygiene factor affecting peoples' motivation. The analogy is that being hygienic will stop you being sick but will not necessarily make you healthy. With pay, it may not be the key motivator but, unless it was perceived as being fair, not much else was going to motivate people. We need to get this right before we can hope to fully engage our people. Often, salary reviews are an ad hoc affair with a central budget being the main... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Ray La Foy @ Wednesday, 30th May 2007 @ 6:54 PM

A lot of companies have been questioning if payroll outsourcing services is right for their business. Firstly, you have to know about payroll outsourcing before you try and hire an outsourcing company to do the payroll for you. First of all, you first have to know what payroll outsourcing is. Payroll outsourcing services are outsourcing companies that will calculate your company's payroll, print and deliver checks to your company, adhere to the latest tax obligations, and also provid... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Graham Tyler @ Monday, 28th May 2007 @ 7:29 PM

Local is not always better when it comes to using personality tests to hire or upskill workers in Asia, particularly China. Personality tests are used mostly by those responsible for employee hiring decisions to predict the work performance and character of potential staff. The use of these tests has steadily grown over the years with research evidence suggesting that they are more reliable than many other common forms of employee assessment. Despite the growth in the use o... more...

Business » Human Resources | By Graham Tyler @ Tuesday, 22nd May 2007 @ 12:48 AM

Psychometric tests should have been validated by a test publisher prior to being published. However, the test user should also pay due diligence and ensure that the test cannot be accused of having unjustifiable adverse impact for one group of people over another. There is a simple guideline known as the four/fifths (4/5) rule. Here we seek to ascertain the percentage of one group that is selected or passes through to the next round of a selection process based on test scores, com... more...