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HR Essentials
HR Essentials

A crash course in Human Resource Management filled with practical tips and advice to make your HR function as effective as it can be.


Controlling Costs with Staffing
Looking to improve operating margins in your business? Then take a look at your staffing strategy. From the assembly line to the executive office, effective staffing is essential to maximizing profitability. This article contains 10 practical strategies for using staffing to reduce overhead, manage operating costs, and improve organizational performance.

Pre-Need Hiring & Workforce Planning
Pre-need hiring is a strategy that is designed to make sure that there is no significant “lag” or delay in the product development (or delivery) cycle as a result of a shortage of talent. Here is a list of some of the tools and approaches to consider when you use pre-need hiring.

When do you need HR Help?
This article leads you through the process of assessing your need for additional help in the HR department. Do you have the resources in your company? Not sure? Find out what the alternatives are…

Employee Motivation
A great list of low cost and no cost motivators, focuses on eliminating “demotivators” from your culture and using communications, motivation, and empowerment to motivate employees.

Salary Plans – What Compensation Plan is Best?
You want to employ the best and the brightest people. But to get them (and keep them) you have to offer the right compensation package. While the solution may be to pay more, often the real answer lies in how you pay.

Key Steps in Effective Layoffs
If you’re in the unfortunate position of having to do a layoff, here are some of the key steps you need to take.

Workforce Planning – The Strategy behind “Strategic Staffing”
While variations may exist from one organization to the next, workforce planning generally follows this four-step model.

Managing Diversity – Meet the needs of Workforce 2010
Organizations are responding to the diverse needs of their employees in a number of different ways. Outlined here are some ideas that might be adopted as a means to introduce diversity.

The Importance of Succession Planning
Succession planning is an essential part of doing business, no matter how certain your future appears. It’s easy to put off planning when everything seems to be going so well, right? Wrong. Now is the fime to begin succession planning. Here are some reasons why it can’t – and shouldn’t wait.

The Ins and Out of Employee Surveys
Employees are critical to the success of your business. Their satisfaction and support are necessary to ensure that your organization is functioning as you would like it to, and satisfied employees can help you to increase productivity, decrease turnover, and improve profits. The Business Research Lab, a leader in employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction surveys, offers the following tips when evaluating your need for and implementation of employee surveys.
 
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