This is an important topic becomes performance appraisals are often one of the deciding factors used in most human resources decisions such as pay, promotions, transfers, training opportunities, layoffs, demotions, suspensions, and terminations. And as such you and your organization might find yourselves with a legal challenge to your performance appraisal system if any of…
Summertime and Body Odor!
It’s summertime, summertime, sum- sum- summertime, and with summertime comes the opportunity for employees to come to work with body odor. Having to deal with this matter may be one of the most difficult issues a business owner or manager has to face, especially if you’re in a retail or business setting where a little…
Interviewing for Success
One of the most important roles and responsibilities a leader has is to build a strong leadership team. As important as recruiting is to the success of an organization it is frequently one of the poorest leader skills. Statistics indicate that the success rate for quality hires is about 48%. Not great. In previous blog…
Being Wise with COLA (No, we’re not talking about the drink!)
Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA) traditionally boost the pay grid or portions of the pay grid by the amount of inflation, usually as the Federal government’s Consumer Price Index measures it. COLA is not attached to performance, but is given in order to keep an organization’s pay competitive with other like companies for recruiting purposes…
National Barrier Awareness Day
In 1986, Ronald Reagan made a Presidential Proclamation encouraging Americans to celebrate outstanding achievements of persons with disabilities. You’re probably thinking right now of someone you know that is inspiring. First, because this is an HR blog!, let’s make a few notes: The flip side of disability can be an incredible ability and gain to…
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