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Employee Referral Programs Help Companies Hire the
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04/10/2005
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Attracting the best talent is critical for companies that want to maximize their growth and profitability. But that may be more challenging today as organizations struggle with tighter recruiting budgets and leaner HR staffs.
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Job Performance Review
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04/10/2005
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Even if you're a small business with only a handful of employees, job performance reviews are an essential business practice. First of all, regular job performance reviews focus your employees' efforts and make them more productive workers. Additionally, conducting and documenting job performance reviews is one of the best defenses you will have against any possible claims of employment discrimination.
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Four Building Blocks of the Retention Process
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04/10/2005
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Keeping good employees is critical to organizational success. However, many organizations look at this area as a series of tasks to be performed. This is a process, not a set of tasks�and once that mindset is taken, a comprehensive, ongoing system can be developed to ensure your retention goals are realized. Here are four areas to consider when developing your systemic process.
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Steps to Become the Boss Your Employees Deserve
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04/10/2005
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As a small business owner or manager who has employees reporting to him or her, do you ever wonder what your employees are really thinking about your leadership skills? Do you ever wish you could ask for the truth without your employees fearing losing their jobs if they told you what�s on their minds?
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Companies Lean Heavily On Employee Referrals
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04/10/2005
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Conventional wisdom still holds true: It's all about who you know.
Big companies increasingly turn to their employees to find candidates for job openings, according to a study of 40 large companies' 2004 hiring practices from CareerXroads, a recruiting-strategy consulting firm in Kendall Park, N.J. Employee referrals accounted for a third of new outside hires, says the study. The Internet came in a close second, with most successful candidates applying through the companies' own Web sites. Hiring was up 10% last year over 2003, and 62% of positions were filled by external candidates.
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Train Your Manager To Be a Better Boss
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04/10/2005
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Work can be miserable when you and your boss don't get along. At times, quitting may seem to be the only option.
When she was a working journalist, Jill Geisler decided she didn't want to work for someone she remembers as a "gloriously imperfect" boss. "Picture Anthony Quinn, Vince Lombardi, and Hawkeye Pierce all rolled into one man," she says. "Volatile. Demanding. Larger than life."
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How to Manage Employee Turnover
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04/10/2005
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The constant struggle to deal with employee turnover is a fact of life that plagues most, if not all, companies today. It is a problem that most executives are aware of, but may not acknowledge as a potential loss of revenue. The financial loss will manifest itself in ways you may not have imagined
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The Year Ahead in HR: Numbers You'll Need to Know
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04/10/2005
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The new year has brought new, important numbers into the lives of anyone involved in their organizations' payroll duties.
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Employees Don't Respond To Most Performance Plans
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04/10/2005
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It's no secret that many performance-management systems aren't working. This goes from the top to the bottom of organizations, from boards who adjust executives' performance goals so they can receive pay that appears to have no relationship to company results, to levels lower down, where large numbers of employees are indifferent or unmotivated by the plans.
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What Do I Do If I Receive My Own Employee�s Resume
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04/10/2005
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If you are in Human Resources (and assuming the employee responding is not from your department), do not divulge the specific information to the department. The employee will feel either embarrassed or as if his/her privacy has been invaded. This can only serve to hasten the person's departure.
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