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The 7 Rules of Upward Communication - - Eric Garner
Bit by bit, your workplace is changing. As the old industries disappear, and along with them, control styles of management, so new structures and new systems are taking their place. Where once the manager sat atop the pyramid, and issued commands to the team below, today there is every... Submitted 5 years 348 days ago.

Employee Communication Surveys: Seven Tips For Successful Design and Implementation - Vicki Heath
Employee Survey Benefits Surveying employees is an effective first step in fixing communication problems in an organization. Even if there are no obvious problems, surveys can help get an organization to the next level of performance. Benefits in conducting a communication survey and acting on... Submitted 5 years 364 days ago.

What Is Wrong with Performance Appraisals? - - Leslie Allan
"Needs Improvement" "Below Expectations" "Unacceptable" As an employee, you would be mortified to see these ratings on your performance evaluation. Yet year after year, those are the words often used to describe performance reviews at organizations around the world. Any employee with... Submitted 206 days 12 hours ago.

Employee Misclassification Could Cost Your Company Tens of Thousands of Dollars - Samantha Bishop-Strand
The Department of Labor is on the hunt for worker misclassifications. Learn how you can protect your company from an unexpected tax bill and a big fine. It’s estimated that millions of American workers who should be classified as W-2 employees are misclassified as independent (1099)... Submitted 313 days 4 hours ago.

5 Proven Methods to Keep Your Best Employees - Samantha Bishop-Strand
Voluntary employee turnover was low as America waited through the storm of “The Great Recession.” After surviving layoffs and news of record levels of unemployment, employees were thankful to have any job. But as the country emerges from the recession, the workforce may be facing a... Submitted 317 days 3 hours ago.

Post Recession Strategies for Recruiting the Best Talent - Samantha Bishop-Strand
Need a clear sign the economy has officially turned the corner into economic recovery? More people are now quitting their jobs than being fired or laid off for the first time since 2008. “Resignations generally outnumber layoffs in a healthy economy,” according to John Wohlford, an... Submitted 317 days 3 hours ago.

Machine Guarding Basics - Safeguarding Industrial Machinery - - chazklm
You might wonder why you would have to install guards on your woodworking or metal working machines. Aren't manufacturers required to install guards on the machines they sell?The short answer to that is no. Many manufacturers continue to build and sell their tools without the necessary... Submitted 1 year 15 days ago.

Accounting Software Solutions- Things to Think of Before You Buy! - Teresa Francis
As you prepare to compile your needs analysis for your new accounting software solutions or ERP system, you have no doubt thoroughly identified your business processes. But there are three areas of coming importance that you may have overlooked, but won’t want to ignore. These are... Submitted 1 year 16 days ago.

5 Tips To Effective Hiring & Recruiting Management - - Steve Bonadio
Tip #1: Eliminate Talent Assessment and Sourcing Bottlenecks Through 2010/2011, many organizations will continue to be inundated with record numbers of applicants and resumes as job seekers significantly outnumber open positions. Compounding this... Submitted 1 year 20 days ago.

5 Tips To Effective Succession Planning - - Steve Bonadio
Tip #1: Eliminate Paper and Spreadsheets Succession planning is currently the least automated talent management process, according to a global survey of HR leaders conducted by SumTotal. Fully 67% of companies that employ a succession planning process... Submitted 1 year 20 days ago.

5 Tips To Effective Compensation Management - - Steve Bonadio
Introduction Compensation planning systems automate and manage the planning, modeling, budgeting, analysis, and execution of enterprise-wide compensation plans. Organizations that have invested in these systems cite a number of significant benefits, including: Simplify compensation policy... Submitted 1 year 20 days ago.

Performance-driven Learning: Putting the Horse Before the Cart To Lead Organizational Growth - - Steve Bonadio
e-Learning Is Back, and This Time We Need It The momentum of e-Learning in the late 1990’s was fueled by the goal of “providing on-demand learning where and when employees needed it most—on the job.” However the approach to how learning and development was defined... Submitted 1 year 20 days ago.

Software Parallel Testing – Do I really Need to Do It (and if so, how)? - Teresa Francis
Parallel Testing can be one of most complex parts of an Accounting Software System implementation. The complexity is due to several factors, some of these being: the high level of coordination needed to ensure that all data inputs are available; the labor intensiveness of entering data into both... Submitted 1 year 23 days ago.

Hiring The Right Employee - - Tom Stables
Finding the perfect employee to meet your company's needs takes time. Understanding how to find that employee who is the perfect fit also takes knowledge and practice. According to a Gallup study, 70% of American workers are not fully engaged in their work. This may be due to the fact 53% are... Submitted 1 year 45 days ago.

X, Y, Or Z: Does An Employee's Generation Really Matter? - - Tom Stables
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. -George Orwell As with so many other aspects of an excellent work place, strong HR> - hiring, training and management practices - form the foundation. Different... Submitted 1 year 45 days ago.

Why A Company's HR Solutions Are Critical To Excellent Customer Service - - Tom Stables
I had been with the hardware company in Virginia for about five years - three and a half as HR director. I had enjoyed the work and the people were great. We had made a lot of progress in establishing the HR department. We had formalized the hiring process and a significant number of HR policies... Submitted 1 year 45 days ago.

Horizontal vs. Vertical Accounting Software Solutions – Which Do You Need? - Teresa Francis
Businesses of any size most likely have an automated accounting software system of some type. Smaller organizations may likely use Quickbooks or Peachtree, which largely are designed around a “one-size fits all" approach. Larger organizations may have custom-designed applications written for the... Submitted 1 year 71 days ago.

Human Resources Audits: Six Ways Document Management Can Help You Comply - Laurel Sanders
Managers who are worth their salt work hard to ensure employees have the tools they need to handle everyday business and tackle potential challenges. Strategic planning, appropriate policies and clear communications-proactive and reactive-lay the groundwork for success. Yet without a periodic... Submitted 1 year 80 days ago.

Employee Benefits, Grievances, and Termination: EDM and Workflow Help Manage HR - Laurel Sanders
Life can be intense. Every day, employee dramas enter the workplace unsolicited. Some of the greatest workplace concerns we face as HR professionals, employees, and caring colleagues are making sure: Health needs are met and costs are covered as anticipated. Everyone is treated fairly by... Submitted 1 year 80 days ago.

Have Your Cake and Eat It – Nurture the Best Talent and Save Money - Andrew Day
Recent talent research points to fantastic savings that can be achieved whilst ensuring you retain the very best talent in your organisation. Figures from the Association of Graduate Recruiters, for example, show if a business can increase retention from 50% to 70% it can on average save 15% of... Submitted 1 year 122 days ago.

Accounting Packages: Comparing SaaS, Hosted and Cloud Computing - Teresa Francis
A CFO, vacationing in Hawaii, pulls his iPad from his beach bag. He reviews the monthly reports prepared by his team (who have been toiling back at the office) and their accounting packages. With a few clicks he reviews the ledgers and reports, and compiles a packet of .pdf reports for the board... Submitted 1 year 136 days ago.

Organizational Clarity - Olivia Bevan
Do you have Organizational Clarity? No I don't mean do you have a plaque posted in your lobby that has your vision, mission and values printed on it. Or that you have your vision, mission and values posted on your website for all to see. I'm talking about true Organizational Clarity where... Submitted 1 year 141 days ago.

The CEO’s Guide To Succession Planning: Managing Risk & Ensuring Business Continuity - Steve Bonadio
Introduction Once reserved for the upper echelons of senior management, and often viewed as replacement planning should catastrophe strike, today's succession planning is being redefined. The discipline has broadened in both breadth and scope to become a central component of board-level strategy.... Submitted 1 year 164 days ago.

How Proven Techniques in Building Self-Confidence Will Lead to Stress-Free Management - - Tony Richards
Irrespective of the business type, few jobs could provide as much satisfaction as managing a happy group of people. If they turn up each day, and carry out your work instructions because of how well you interact with them, management can be a very pleasant experience. On the other hand... Submitted 1 year 165 days ago.

Pre-Employment Tests Help You Make Safe Workplace - Michael Mercer
Pre-employment tests plus other techniques may help you avoid hiring violent, perhaps even murderous, employees. You do not want to hire potentially violent employees and you need to create a safe workplace. Recent news reported a company's employee murdered co-workers, and then committed... Submitted 1 year 176 days ago.