One negative team member can ruin the morale of an entire workplace, often causing other team members to feel underappreciated and overly criticized. Learning how to control the response to negativity is important to maintaining productivity and keeping your employees feeling positive about the work that they are doing. Using tools that help you reduce …
HR Management
How Does the HR Team Tackle Absenteeism? Corporate Surveillance Curbs Sick Leave Abuse
Ever wondered how employers train their HR departments to keep employee absenteeism to an efficient minimum? Surprisingly many of them don’t. Millions of pounds are wasted every year in the UK due to employee absenteeism, with employers paying out billions of pounds in wages to workers. Although recent figures suggest that the problem is on …
9 Best Practices for Handling Employee Terminations [Video]
This week, I am on a roll with my video blog posts – and having fun sharing information with you using this form of media! Do you have to deal with employee terminations? Unfortunately, this is an aspect of human resource management at times. Employee terminations can be nerve wracking, unless you have a plan …
Human Resources: Why a Diverse Team is the Key to Success
If you have ever had to sit through a diversity presentation at work, you might have wondered why diversity is so important in the workplace. What the typical diversity presentation fails to address is that a diverse workforce is actually the key to success for many companies. As a professional in the human resources field, …
The HR Writer Talks About Workaholism in the Workplace [Video]
Do you have employees who tend to be workaholics? Wondering if they are actually productive or headed for trouble? In this first ever video post, Tess C. Taylor, founder of The HR Writer, talks about the signs of workaholism in the office, what an important study recently reported about workaholic behaviors, and how to deal …
Does Business Branding Matter When Searching for the Ideal Candidate?
It may not seem like your corporate brand would play a role in attracting candidates, but the two have more to do with each other than you may realize. If you want an ongoing line-up of qualified candidates for positions within your company, you need to focus on building your brand. Why does branding really matter? …