Employee Relations Articles

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Melissa Vokoun @ Friday, 11th April 2008 @ 5:18 PM

The good manager learns from day one that maximizing your resources is essential to good organizational management. Whether it's people, materials, or money, using the resources on hand is the difference between success and failure. No resource is more critical or more hard to manage than your most valuable asset,your people. It is the law of nature that when you put any group of people together a complex set of relationships develop and together they define the dynamic of a group.... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Melissa Vokoun @ Thursday, 10th April 2008 @ 7:17 AM

The stereotype that conflict is always detrimental is coming under attack from many researchers. There is a growing school of thought that conflict can stimulate an energetic and dynamic working environment that shakes apathy and compliancy to its core. However, there is an equally vocal group that finds conflict is always dysfunctional and its consequences can far outweigh any potential benefits. Conflict can effect radical change. In many organizations when radical change is necessar... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Melissa Vokoun @ Tuesday, 8th April 2008 @ 6:50 PM

Burnout in employees and managers continues to be a major and costly issue affecting businesses today. Major inroads have been made in maintaining employee health through the use of Employee Assistance Programs,EAP, and improved employee counseling but days of work lost to depression and a host of other psychological problems continues to cost American employers millions per year. When employees lose motivation and interest in their work depression, fatigue, and physical complaints add... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By James Redder @ Saturday, 29th March 2008 @ 1:35 AM

It's unbelievable to imagine that employee motivation would even be a problem since they are being paid to work right? Well since the common belief among most people (i.e. not in the know) that people are primarily motivated by money is a myth that needs to be exposed. Read on for more motivation for employees tactics. Bosses and managers have often have a tough time being motivational enough for there employees. If you're wondering about ways to motivate your employees and get ... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By James Redder @ Tuesday, 25th March 2008 @ 11:11 AM

Would you be interested in effective ways for greatly lowering employee burnout and motivation? Or would you be interested in seeing how your current measures are doing in relationship to commonly known proven methods? Continue reading and you will become aware of how lowered employee burnout and motivation can be systematically achieved. . . There have been a lot of parables and analogies put out that deal with the concept of employee burnout. One in particular states that an army trave... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Abhishek Agarwal @ Thursday, 6th March 2008 @ 2:43 AM

Employee relocation never works out cheap, and that goes double where top of the line executives of the company are concerned. Still, you need to keep your skilled workers happy so they perform well at the work place, so you should look at the expense as an investment. Technically sound employees know that value that they bring to the company, and so it is best to make them as comfortable as you can afford, since they deserve it anyhow. There are some norms that have helped companies in t... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Abhishek Agarwal @ Monday, 3rd March 2008 @ 7:54 PM

When you work with big, multinational corporations that look for expertise, it can be quite hard and even near impossible to find the right genre of workers. When taken care of in the right way, international relocation can work wonders for your corporation. The degree of success you see in international employee relocation is directly connected to the quality of the relocation team that you hire to assist you with this. As with nay other realm, there will be a lot of takers when you look... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Abhishek Agarwal @ Monday, 3rd March 2008 @ 7:21 PM

Even in very large business and companies, there exist some common rules and policies about employee relocation. Companies often lure professionals by offering bonuses and incentives. They offer these at times of relocation to their existing employee set as well, to push them into accepting the offer. The human resources development of a corporation is constantly seeking bright young professionals to join the team. This process of ongoing search and recruiting of new and promising employe... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Perry Burns @ Sunday, 2nd March 2008 @ 6:36 PM

Recruiting staff has never been easy. But with changes to legislation employers are having to be ever more careful as they assess candidates. An employer's first responsibility of course is to recruit the best possible candidate for the job; but increasingly, they must also be able to demonstrate that the process used for selection was fair, transparent and unbiased. In many parts of the world including the USA, employees have relatively few rights and it is common for employers to... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Art Gib @ Thursday, 17th January 2008 @ 10:32 AM

Working, as many Americans do, for a large corporation is the epitome of the often cliched "daily grind." Spending eight hours a day in a cubicle, typing away or crunching numbers for days, weeks and months on end can really put a strain on an employee's level of happiness -- which in turn is detrimental to his level of production. Across the world, companies are struggling to provide their employees with a higher morale and, therefore, an optimal level of production. ... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Art Gib @ Monday, 24th December 2007 @ 11:37 PM

It's hard to equate team building exercises and fun together, but enthralling scavenger hunts can not only create laughter and good times, but shows real strengths in co-workers. Team building in Boston takes on a whole new flavor as your company team can tour Boston in search of clues rediscovering typical haunts and finding new discoveries both in the city and within each other's skill. Whether you live in Boston, elsewhere in the New England area, or are just visiting on off... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Art Gib @ Monday, 24th December 2007 @ 11:36 PM

No more wondering about where the infamous gangsters got wacked and what restaurants Jimmy Hoffa frequented to discuss mafia hits in New York's Little Italy, cleverly planned a scavenger hunts around these fun, historical events and spots, where all the members of the group pitch in and get their kicks finding fun facts together, are an increasingly popular method of bringing people together, whether those people are a family or corporation. Companies now specialize in creating hunt... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Art Gib @ Monday, 24th December 2007 @ 11:21 PM

A company's success is not measured by a single factor. There are a myriad of factors that can lend to the success or failure of a corporate company including funding, management competence, working in a product or service that has a demand, and employee cohesiveness. The latter is perhaps the most complicated factor to measure and maintain as so many unforeseeable influences can cause extreme unpredictability in any given employee's level of job satisfaction. When considering y... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Dave Poon @ Wednesday, 5th December 2007 @ 10:57 PM

In a continuously developing country, Achieving great competence and globalization wouldn?t be triumphant without having manpower. Human beings, in a world of manufacturing, are coined as commodity resources. It is not just right to treat them as a commodity; rather they should be termed as social beings wherein their contributions through labor are one main factor in achieving world competitiveness. Their contributions are major requirement on promoting growth for civilization. It is j... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Paul Sutherland @ Tuesday, 27th November 2007 @ 11:17 PM

Frankly, a lot of businesses are only as good as the workers who handle the day to day activities and actually come in contact with the customer or client. However, finding the right person, to fill a position, can be a guessing game, unless you know the right questions to ask, in order to make an informed decision. For example, many potential employers make the common mistake of asking hypothetical questions, to determine whether the employee can handle customers, and related duties pro... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Martin Haworth @ Tuesday, 13th November 2007 @ 3:03 PM

Truth is, in many organizations, the doing of the survey is more than enough. Only rarely does anyone get down to what happens next. It's an easy fix for organizations to churn out the annual or even bi-annual ('to show we really care') survey to their people, to assess 'staff satisfaction'. It is a great tactic for the Annual Report. Yet in most cases, it stinks! Once the results are in, they get analyzed at Corporate, Divisional and Area level. Any improv... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Cheow Yu Yuan @ Thursday, 8th November 2007 @ 9:28 AM

To improve the morale within your company, you should look for ways that will reward individual achievements, organizing events such as annual dinner and dance, or thank your employees for their loyal contribution and effort to the company. For all those ways mentioned above, you can use corporate gifts to organize events and present corporate gifts to your employees. One of the best ways to get an employee feels important and recognized within the company is to keep track of his or her... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Helmut Flasch @ Monday, 5th November 2007 @ 6:08 AM

When I worked as a waiter in Austria, my native country, I worked hard (90 hours a week for about nine months in a row, never a day off). An American tourist told me that I was working too hard to ever make money. I replied that I loved my job and that I made good money. He smiled, patted me on the shoulder and said that he was happy for me. He added that he meant real money, lots of money, and that I could not make it while working so hard. 15 years later I understood what he meant. more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Cheow Yu Yuan @ Sunday, 21st October 2007 @ 10:57 PM

With today's fast-pace living and business environment, there are more people who sink into day-to-day routines. Very early in the morning they have to wake up and go to work, facing busy traffic along the way. In the office, they are back to do the entire routine job like making reports, attending daily and weekly meetings, and so on. When the sun sets, they go back home, have dinner, rest and sleep. The next day, they are back doing all the same things yet again. And so on... These... more...

Business » Human Resources » Employee Relations | By Eric Reed @ Tuesday, 16th October 2007 @ 12:53 AM

As a business management consultant I often suggest to my clients that they make their benefits packages as appealing as possible. In an age where insurance is expensive and financial planning is a hot topic among the many, the benefits packages companies offer are one of the top reasons that a candidate will accept or decline a position. Anymore, the employees expect compensation to include more than a decent salary. Health care, dental care, adequate retirement plans, and many more op... more...