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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
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.
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.
The Benefits Of Training Programmes
Four good reasons
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.
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.
Absent Without Leave
Pointers to successful Absence Management
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.
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...
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!