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Human Resources 54 min read 240

High-Involvement Organizations

Challenging the structures and values of traditional organizations, locating the right mix of power, information, rewards, and knowledge (also known as PIRK) at all levels, encouraging employee commitment to the success of the organization, and utilizing an employee-centered approach as opposed to a control-oriented approach to management

Mubeena M. 🇦🇪
Mubeena M.
Consultant Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Human Resources 31 min read 333

Development Of Rater Training Programs

How organizations may train their raters to decrease biases, increase accuracy of evaluations, increase behavioral accuracy to improve observational skills, and finally, increase rater confidence.

Mubeena M. 🇦🇪
Mubeena M.
Consultant Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Human Resources 7 min read 50

How To Land Your First Job - And Love It.

The most important thing to remember is to enjoy the job hunt! I know it sounds like a difficult thing to do but if you don't feel joy in the process, your new job will take a while to find you.

Mubeena M. 🇦🇪
Mubeena M.
Consultant Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Human Resources 3 min read 50

The Benefits Of Training Programmes

Four good reasons

Mubeena M. 🇦🇪
Mubeena M.
Consultant Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Human Resources 8 min read 50

Peer Appraisal - A More Productive Method?

If managers can demonstrate the skills and are not afraid to trust their employees, then peer appraisal can work for both manager and the team, and work incredibly well. But make no mistake - it is very, very tough in the short term.

Allan M. 🇬🇧
Allan M.
Business Trainer Glasgow, United Kingdom
Human Resources 7 min read 50

Top 8 Signs Your Workplace Needs Help

These are trying times. Companies are fighting each other over talented workers, budgets are being squeezed as the world economy struggles, and we've become a nation of stressed-out imbalanced employees.

James A. 🇦🇺
James A.
Business Speaker Sydney, Australia
Human Resources 5 min read 50

Absent Without Leave

Pointers to successful Absence Management

Carole S. 🇬🇧
Carole S.
Business Speaker Harrow, United Kingdom
Human Resources 11 min read 60

Pros & Cons Of Pay For Performance

Somewhere in Corporate America, a human resources manager is tweaking her company's employee-incentive program. Maybe she's dumping last year's customized giveaways for this year's weekend getaway packages. Perhaps she's jettisoning the annual casino-awards party in favor of discreet distribution of personalized thank-you cards. What drives her is the theory that rewards and bonuses motivate employees to do their jobs better.

Albert E. 🇩🇪
Albert E.
Business Trainer Ulm, Germany
Human Resources 4 min read 50

Employees Want Simple Things In Life

It's a tough and competitive business world. Everyone is faced with rising taxes, increasing insurance and energy costs which, in turn, are causing feelings of discomfort and uncertainty. And, for many organizations, finding (and keeping) great people is becoming a challenge...

Sid R. 🇨🇦
Sid R.
Business Trainer Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Human Resources 4 min read 50

How Incompetent Are You?

Do you have a Role Description (RD) for your current job? Or are you still working from some out-dated Job Description (JD)? Do you know the difference? Is yours one of those companies who insists on talking about "benchmarking" but without really understanding how dangerous that can be, done incorrectly!

Barry C. 🇦🇪
Barry C.
Consultant Dubai, United Arab Emirates