When you start building a workforce, the main thing you hope for is their engagement- with the company’s mission statement, it's values and also with each other. Without this connection, it's very hard to get real, lasting results. Studies have...
There aren’t many things that beat that feeling of hiring your first employee. It’s confirmation all your hard work has paid off, that you have built up more business than you can handle alone and that heartwarming feeling that you...
In case you have just embarked on a journey of expansion, chances are that you will be too preoccupied with planning change and strategy and need some professional services to look after your customers, your employees, and your back office....
All businesses and establishments will have an employee turnover rate. If you aren’t aware, this refers to the rate at which you’re replacing old employees with new ones. There are loads of reasons you may need to do this -...
When it comes to starting a business, there are always various options available to you that you should consider. The fact is that when it comes to starting a business, while you could launch a business from scratch, you might...
Hoping to recruit new staff for your company? Make sure that you don’t make any of these big blunders – they could result in you hiring the wrong person. Making your job ad sound too demanding This is a common mistake among...
Unfortunately, not all workplaces are sunshine and roses. There are environments of difficulty for employees all across the salary spectrum, and it’s important to assess what sort of circumstance you find yourself in from time to time. Not every employer...
By 2017, almost 96 percent of employers were conducting some variation of background check on potential employees, based on information uncovered in a survey by HR.com and commissioned by The National Association of Professional Background Screeners. Out of the 1528 participants,...
Do you know your rights as an employee? If not, you could unwittingly become the victim of employment discrimination at work or suffer from having your rights violated. These can have negative effects on the progress of your career and...
In research published in the Journal of Labor Economics, conducted by the University of Warwick, it was found that happiness at work made employees 12% more productive. The study included treating some employees to sugary snacks and movie clips, while questioning...
Change within any organization is difficult to manage, especially if that change comes with an emotional impact for both leaders and workers of that organization. The changing of an organization’s strategic direction, a merger or acquisition that results in layoffs, the...
Social Media are one of the most powerful digital forces of our age. Facebook alone gathers more than 2 billion monthly active users, while networks such as Instagram, LinkedIn, or Twitter also attract hundreds of millions of users on a daily basis....
– how to turn this into a high performing business. Your office culture stands to define a lot about the daily operations of your organization. It has control over how your staff interact with each other, their individual work performance...
There are two ways to think about an organization’s talent, one that takes a short-term perspective and another that takes a long-term perspective. In choosing which approach is preferable, it’s important to take a deeper look at the evidence and...
The business world is changing fast. With constant technological advancements, emerging markets and financial crises on just about every continent, sustainable development has become a fundamental human resource practice. The modern, globalized marketplace calls for the development of strong leaders today...