Important Tips for Hiring the Best Employees

1. Choosing the right hires for your organization whether its a startup or otherwise is crucial to building a thriving business. And while the importance of hiring the right people cant be downplayed for any business, there may be more challenges for startups, including tight resources, uncertainty, or the fact that candidates may never have heard of your company. People are truly the backbone of any successful company, and, as CEO, Ive opted .....

Play an active role

2. The CEO of a tech startup wears a lot of hats. Indeed, this may be true of any startup employee. Were fortunate enough at this juncture that were of the size that I can have a hands on role in the hiring process. I believe this gives both me and our HR team the ability to find the most qualified candidates who are also the best fit for our culture. This is a rather polarizing issue, though Im certainly not the only CEO in tech to review new hires .....

Emphasize culture

3. Culture is a significant part of any company, large or small, and I find it is particularly important for startups. A startup, as the name implies, is laying the foundation on which it will be built. Your hires are essential to this early stage, and can often make or break a company. One way to ensure you make the right hires is to have a good understanding of your companys culture that is, of your companys vision and working environment. As .....

Get social

4. A good recruiting strategy is like a good marketing strategy. A major part of it is getting your company name out there and creating visibility for yourself. I encourage my HR team myself included to grow their social networks as much as possible, and to post and share updates on our company. Social media for recruiting is more popular than ever: 92 percent of companies use platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook for recruitment, .....

Define the Job Before Hiring an Employee

5. Hiring the right employee starts with a job analysis. The job analysis enables you to collect information about the duties, responsibilities, necessary skills, outcomes, and work environment of a particular job. The information from the job analysis is fundamental to developing the job description for the new employee. The job description assists you to plan your recruiting strategy for hiring the right employee. .....

What Is a Scheduled Absence

6. An absence is the scheduled time off from work that occurs when an employee is not present at work during a normally scheduled work period. Excused absences are scheduled in advance for such events as vacation, medical appointments, military service, family activities, surgery, jury duty, funerals and more that cannot be scheduled outside of regular work hours. Absences are generally compensated when their frequency and rationale fall within th .....

Absenteeism Policy

7. A policy that provides guidance within an organization about how to manage the state of chronic absence from work. Absenteeism is usually addressed through progressively stricter disciplinary measures that can result in the termination of the individual's employment. This is generally governed by the organizations attendance policy. .....

Employee and Applicant Accommodation Under ADA

8. A recent article about disability awareness and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) sparked some serious questions about how far an employer needs to go to accommodate an applicant or an employee with a disability. The answer is: as far as possible to accommodate the needs of a person with a disability so they can perform the core functions of their job. Good employers are committed to keeping valued employees working. .....

Enculturation Definition

9. Enculturation is a socialization process by which new workers adjust to, and become part of, the corporate culture of their new company, office, department, and so forth. Some companies help new employees embrace their organization's culture through orientation or onboarding sessions and other Human Resources (HR) initiatives. Departments should welcome new employees with a plan that will help the new person learn their job. .....

What Is Age Discrimination

10. Age discrimination is adverse work treatment of an employee based on a class or category that the employee belongs to .....

Are You Ready for an Agile Future

11. Agile, nimble, resilient .....

The Americans With Disabilities Act An Employers Responsibilities

12. The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) makes it unlawful for an employer with 15 or more employees to discriminate against a qualified individual with a disability. The Michigan Persons with Disabilities Civil Rights Act, which is similar to the ADA in many respects, covers employers with one or more employees. This article addresses a number of disability law issues relevant to employers. Who is protected by the ADA? The ADA applies to a per .....

What Is Background Checking

13. Background checking is the process of authenticating the information supplied to a potential employer by a job applicant in his or her resume, application, and interviews. In most application processes, lying about background and credentials will keep the employer from hiring the applicant. Background checking ensures the employer that the candidate has the background and experience he or she claims. .....

Base Salary

14. Basesalaryis a fixed amount of money paid to an employee by an employer in return for work performed. Base salary does not includebenefits,bonusesor any other potentialcompensationfrom an employer. Base salary is paid, most frequently, in a bi weekly paycheck to anexemptor professional employee. In most years, an employee's base salary is paid in 26 evenpaychecksover the course of the year. .....

Use a Behavioral Interview to Select the Best Employees

15. Want to know the best way to identify whether a candidate's characteristics and motivations match the behaviors needed for your job? A behavioral interview is the best tool you have to identify candidates who have the behavioral traits and characteristics you believe are essential for success in your open job. Additionally, in a behavioral interview, you ask the candidate to pinpoint specific instances in which a particular behavior was exhibite .....

Some Employers Provide a Total Compensation Package for Employees

16. Benefits are a form of compensation paid by employers to employees over and above the amount of pay specified as a base salary or hourly rate of pay. Benefits are a portion of a total compensation package for employees. A comprehensive, common set of benefits includes. .....

Bereavement Policy

17. A bereavement policy is the companys practice about allowing paid and unpaid employee time off when a family member, relative, or friend dies. Bereavement time is granted for making funeral arrangements, attending the funeral and burial, paying respects to the family at a wake or visitation, dealing with the deceaseds possessions and will, and any ancillary matters that employees must address when a loved one dies .....

A Mentor Is Key in Employee Development

18. A mentor is an employee who participates in a formal or informal relationship that is established between an experienced, knowledgeable employee and an inexperienced or new employee. A mentor relationship also exists between a knowledgeable, experienced employee and any employee who seeks to grow in their ability to contribute and build their career. A mentoring relationship can also exist between an employee and an individual in another organi .....

What Is Broadbanding

19. In a broadband pay structure, the numbers of salary grades are consolidated into fewer, but broader, pay ranges. In broadbanding, the spread of the pay ranges is wider and there is less overlap with other pay ranges. Broadbanding evolved because organizations want to flatten their hierarchies and move decision making closer to the point where necessity and knowledge exist in organizations. .....

Bonus Pay

20. Bonus pay is compensation over and above the amount of pay specified as a base salary or hourly rate of pay. The base amount of compensation is specified in the employee offer letter, in the employee personnel file, or in a contract. Bonus pay can be distributed randomly as the company can afford to pay a bonus, or the amount of the bonus pay can be specified by contract. .....

What Is Bullying

21. Bullying at work is intentionally causing pain to or harming another employee. According to the Workplace Bullying and Trauma Institute (WBTI), workplace bullying is a systematic campaign of interpersonal destruction that jeopardizes your health, your career, the job you once loved. Bullying is a non physical, non homicidal form of violence and because it is violence and abusive, emotional harm frequently results. To make bullying even more signi .....

Career Pathing

22. Career pathing is the process used by an employee to chart a course within an organization for his or her career path and career development. Career pathing involves understanding what knowledge, skills, personal characteristics, and experience are required for an employee to progress his or her careerlaterally, or through access topromotionsand / or departmentaltransfers. .....

Chain of Command

23. Interested in knowing more about the chain of command? Chain of command describes the way in which organizations, including the military, religious institutions, corporations, government entities, and universities, traditionally structure their reporting relationships.When every employee reports to one other employee, decisions and communication are tightly controlled and flow down the chain of command through the organization. .....

Job Classification

24. Job classification is a system for objectively and accurately defining and evaluating the duties, responsibilities, tasks, and authority level of a job. The job classification, done correctly, is a thorough description of the job responsibilities of a position without regard to the knowledge, skills, experience, and education of the individuals currently performing the job. .....

What Is Change Management

25. Change is here to stay. You can't run away from it; you can't make it go away. You can't return to the good old days. You can't continue to do your job as you have always done it. You live in a work world with customers who are increasingly demanding. Technology is changing every aspect of work. Doing more with less requires redefining staff roles and responsibilities, changing processes and systems, and refining service to customers. .....

Communication in the Workplace

26. Communication is sharing information between two or more individuals, the act of conveying information. Because communication has so many components, failing to effectively communicate in the workplace is commonplace. Components in Communication There are five components to any communication and a sixth that is the overall environment of the workplace in which the communication takes place. .....

Confidentiality Agreement

27. A confidentiality agreement is a written legal contract between an employer and employee. The confidentiality agreement lays out binding terms and conditions that prohibit the employee from disclosing company confidential and proprietary information. A confidentiality agreement is in effect for the duration of an employee's employment and for a period of time following employment termination. .....

Comp Time

28. Compensatory or comp time is time worked by an employee beyond their required number of work hours, often calculated at 40 for exempt employees. Comp time is calculated and recorded and employees expect some remuneration for the extra hours worked, most often paid as time off from work, or comp time, which compensates for the extra hours worked by an employee. .....

How to Spot a Workplace Conflict of Interest

29. A conflict of interest arises in the workplace when an employee has competing interests or loyalties that either are, or potentially can be, at odds with each other. A conflict of interest causes an employee to experience a struggle between diverging interests, points of view, or allegiances. Conflicts of interest are generally forbidden in company codes of conduct and / or employee handbooks. .....

Counter Offer When You Negotiate Salary

30. The counter offer is a viable tool in the salary negotiation toolkit for both the employer and the job candidate. The counter offer is used to keep employee salaries within the market range while not overpaying for positions by the employer. The counter offer is used to go after the highest possible salary by the candidate. When you negotiate salary with a job candidate, you can expect that he or she will make a counter offer to your first job o .....

Assess Cultural Fit When Interviewing Candidates

31. Cultural fit is best understood when you consider it within the context of your organization's culture and how your organization's culture was formed. A potential employee may express and exhibit the characteristics, language, and values that exist within the current organizational culture or not. .....

Your Environment for People at Work

32. People in every workplace talk about organizational culture, that mysterious word that characterizes the qualities of a work environment. One of the key questions and assessments, when employers interview a prospective employee, explores whether the candidate is a good cultural fit. Culture is difficult to define, but you generally know when you have found an employee who appears to fit your culture. .....

What Is a Demotion

33. A demotion is the compulsory lowering of an employees job rank,job title, or status. An organization can provide a demotion at the choice of the organization or voluntarily, at the request of the employee, sometimes called deployment. .....

What Is a Department

34. Departments are the entities organizations form to organize people, reporting relationships, and work in a way that best supports the accomplishment of the organization's goals. Departments are usually organized by functions such as human resources, marketing, administration, and sales. .....

Discipline

35. Progressive discipline is a process for dealing with job related behavior that does not meet expected and communicated performance standards. The primary purpose for progressive discipline is to assist the employee to understand that a performance problem or opportunity for improvement exists. The process features increasingly formal efforts to provide feedback to the employee so he or she can correct the problem. .....

Documentation

36. Documentation is the written and retained record of employment events. Documentation is made up of government and legally mandated elements, documents required by company policy and practice, documents suggested by best Human Resources practices, and formal and informal recordkeeping about employment events. Documentation is a written record of an employee's actions, discussion, incidents of performance coaching, witnessed policy violations, dis .....

Discretionary Energy

37. Discretionary energy is the energy that an employee chooses to exert in service to coworkers or customers at work or not. An employer pays for the fundamental tasks that he hires an employee to perform. The employee exerts the amount of energy necessary to perform the basic requirements of his or her job description. Discretionary energy is the get up and go that the employee is willing to contribute beyond the basic requirements of the job. .....

Develop a Drug Free Workplace

38. In a drug free workplace, the employer has taken steps and initiated policies to ensure that employees, vendors, and customers are not: taking or using alcohol or drugs, selling drugs, or affected by the after effects of indulging in alcohol or drugs outside of the workplace during non work time. Additionally, the goal of a drug free workplace program, as they have traditionally been developed, is to encourage an employee with a substance abuse p .....

Early Retirement Is an Option for Some Employees

39. Early retirement occurs when an employee decides to retire (leave work) before the age at which he or she becomes eligible to collect retirement resources such as Social Security, a company pension, or distributions from a 401(k) or another retirement plan. Early retirement is an option for employees who have saved substantial financial resources aside from retirement accounts. Early retirement is also an option for employees who have developed m .....

Emotional Intelligence

40. Have you ever known a manager who had poorly developed emotional intelligence? This manager has difficulty understanding the emotions that are communicated in every message by employees. A manager with a low EI capacity is also ineffective at understanding and expressing his or her own emotions. But, the primary problem is the manager's inability to realize and understand the impact of his or her actions and statements on coworkers in the workpl .....

What Is an Employee

41. An employee is an individual who was hired by an employer to do a specific job. The employee is hired by the employer after an application and interview process results in his or her selection as an employee. The terms of an individuals employment are specified by an offer letter, an employment contract, or verbally. In workplaces represented by a union, the collective bargaining agreement covers most aspects of an employees relationship with th .....

What s In a Comprehensive Employee Benefits Package

42. Employers of choice provide a comprehensive employee benefits package to attract and retain employees. In addition to a competitive salary, an employee benefits package is a standard .....

Create a Work Environment That Encourages Employee Engagement

43. Does your workplace encourage employee engagement? Probably not. But, it should. It's a powerful factor in business success. Engaged employees are more productive, customer focused, and profit generating and employers are more likely to retain them. According to the Gallup organization, employee engagement is a necessary strategy for companies that want to succeed in the marketplace. Employee engagement is not a Human Resources initiative that ma .....

Employee Evaluation Definition

44. An employee evaluation is the assessment and review of a workers job performance. Most companies have an employee evaluation system wherein employees are evaluated on a regular basis (often once a year). Regular employee evaluation helps remind workers what is expected of them in the workplace, and provides employers with information to use when making employment decisions, such as promotions, pay raises, and layoffs. .....

What Is Employee Motivation

45. Want to encourage and inspire motivation? You need to know what motivation is really. Motivation is an employee's intrinsic enthusiasm about and drive to accomplish activities related to work. Motivation is that internal drive that causes an individual to decide to take action. An individual's motivation is influenced by biological, intellectual, social and emotional factors. As such, motivation is a complex, not easily defined, intrinsic drivi .....

Performance Appraisals Don t Work

46. Second only to firing an employee, managers cite performance appraisal as the task they dislike the most. This is understandable given that the process of performance appraisal, as traditionally practiced, is fundamentally flawed. It is incongruent with the values based, vision driven, mission oriented, participative work environments favored by forward thinking organizations today. It smacks of an old fashioned, paternalistic, top down, autocrat .....

Employee Records

47. Want to know what employee records to maintain as an employer? The employer maintains four employee record files for each employee. Additionally, the employer maintains other employee record files for all employees. Here's more about the employee records an employer will want to retain and make accessible to employees, and sometimes, to their supervisors. .....

Make Employee Satisfaction Surveys Successful

48. A satisfaction survey is used by an organization or a business to measure the liking and approval of a particular group of stakeholders for its services, work environment, culture, or employment. Specifically, for this Human Resources site, an employee satisfaction survey is the survey most frequently noted. A satisfaction survey is a series of questions that employees answer to inform the employer about how they feel about or how they experience .....

What Is an Employer

49. An employer is an organization, institution, government entity, agency, company, professional services firm, nonprofit association, small business, store, or individual who employs or puts to work, an employee. In exchange for the employees work or services, the employer pays compensation that may include a salary, an hourly wage, and benefits that is above the Federally mandated minimum wage in the US. .....

Are You an Employer of Choice

50. Do you work for an employer of choice? Better yet, are you one? You often see me writing about the actions and factors that make an employer, an employer of choice. It's an employer who offers a work culture and workplace environment that attract and retain superior employees. The features of the environment available at an employer of choice favor the well being of employees and customers. .....

What Is at Will Employment

51. At will employment describes the employment relationship between employers and employees in almost every state. At will employment means that the Company does not offer tenured or guaranteed employment for any period of time to any employee without an employment contract or written direction from the CEO/President. In at will employment either the Company or the employee can terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without caus .....

Employment Contract

52. An employment contract is a written legal document that lays out binding terms and conditions of employment between an employee and an employer. An employment contract generally covers. an overview of job responsibilities,reporting relationships,salary, .....

Employment Eligibility Verification

53. Employment Eligibility Verification is the form that is required by the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to document eligibility for employment in the United States. All employees, citizens and noncitizens, hired after November 6, 1986, must complete Section 1 of Form I 9 at the time of hire. The employer is responsible for ensuring that Section 1 of Form I 9 is timely and properly completed by the emplo .....

What Is Enculturation

54. Enculturation is a socialization process by which new workers adjust to, and become part of, the corporate culture of their new company, office, department, and so forth. Some companies help new employees embrace their organization's culture through orientation or onboarding sessions and other Human Resources (HR) initiatives. Departments should welcome new employees with a plan that will help the new person learn their job. .....

Recognition or Entitlement

55. What makes reward and recognition memorable and not an entitlement for employees? The element of surprise is big for effective reward and recognition. I'll never forget a long term client employee telling me, upon receiving a thermal lunch bag with the company logo, that he had been truly surprised by the recognition. (He and other employees who had braved a huge snow storm to come to work were thanked with lunch bags a couple of weeks after the .....

Excused Absence Definition

56. The scheduled or unscheduled time off from work that occurs when an employee is not present at work during a normally scheduled work period is called an absence. An excused absence is an absence that the employee schedules in advance with his or her manager or supervisor or for which the employee provides an acceptable reason upon return to work. An excused absence is scheduled in advance for such events as vacation, medical appointments, militar .....

What Is Expense Reimbursement

57. Expense reimbursement is a method for paying employees back when they spend their own money on business related expenses. These expenses generally occur when an employee is traveling for business but can occur in other work related situations. Travel expenses can include lodging, flights, ground transportation, tips to bellhops, meals, and other incidental expenses an employee might experience while on the road. .....

Exit Interview

58. An exit interview is a meeting with a terminating employee that is generally conducted by Human Resources staff. The exit interview provides your organization with the opportunity to obtain frank, honest feedback from the employee who is leaving your employment. Managers and supervisors are also encouraged to conduct exit interviews. Where trusting relationships exist, the exit interview feedback is useful for organizational improvement and devel .....

What Is Facilitation

59. Facilitation is a process that trainers, team builders, meeting leaders, managers, and communicators use to add content, process, and structure to meet the needs of an individual, group or team. Facilitation is provided by a person, called a facilitator, who leads pairs or groups to obtain knowledge and information, work collaboratively, and accomplish their objectives. .....

What You Need to Know About the Fair Labor Standards Act

60. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), first enacted by the United States Congress in 1938, sets standards for the basic minimum wage and overtime pay. The FLSA also sets standards for recordkeeping and for child labor. The FLSA affects most private and public sector employment, including state, local, and federal government. The FLSA requires employers to pay employees who are not exempt from overtime at least the federal minimum wage. .....

Provide Feedback That Has an Impact

61. Make your feedback have the impact it deserves by the manner and approach you use to provide performance feedback. Your feedback can make a difference to people if you can avoid provoking a defensive response. Difficulty: Hard,Time Required: Depends on the situation. .....

The Family and Medical Leave Act

62. As most employers are now aware, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) requires covered employers to provide twelve weeks of unpaid leave to eligible employees within a 12 month period. The FMLA applies to private employers with 50 or more employees, and to all public employers. .....

Receive Feedback With Grace and Dignity

63. Interested in hearing about how others view your work? Make it easy for them to tell you. If they think you'll appreciatively consider their feedback, you'll get lots more. And, that is good, really. Difficulty: Hard,Time Required: Depends on the situation. .....

Flexible Schedule

64. A flexible schedule allows an employee to work hours that differ from the normal company start and stop time. Particularly in an environment for exempt employees, those hours are generally 8 a.m. 5 p.m. or 9 a.m. 6 p.m. and total a 40 hour work week. In a non exempt workplace, often industrial, production, warehousing, or customer facing such as retail, a flexible schedule depends on the amount of interdependence required in the work. .....

Full Time Employee

65. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not define full time employee or part time employee. What is counted as a full time employee is generally defined by the employer by policy. The definition of a full time employee is often published in the employee handbook. A full time employee has traditionally worked a 40 hour work week with the expectation that exempt employees will work the hours necessary to accomplish their jobs. .....

Garnishment

66. Garnishment is the process of taking money from an employee's paycheck to pay off a debt that the employee owes. The garnishment is usually the result of a court order or a tax collection. The employer is required to cooperate with a wage garnishment order. In garnishment, the employee has the money owed deducted from his or her paycheck until the debt is paid off or until the employee makes other arrangements to pay off the debt. .....

Millennials

67. The millennials joining your workforce now are employees born between 1980 and 2000, or 1981 and 1999, depending on the author. Unlike the Gen Xers and the Boomers, the Millennials have developed work characteristics and tendencies from doting parents, structured lives, and contact with diverse people. Millennials are used to working in teams and want to make friends with people at work. .....

What Age Group Makes Up Generation X

68. Generation Xers are people born between 1965 and 1976 .....

Need an Employee Gift Acceptance Policy

69. A gift policy provides guidance to company employees about what is and isnt appropriate to accept as a present, offering, advertisement, award, or token of appreciation from a customer, vendor, supplier, potential employee, or potential vendor or supplier. The gift policy states whether employees are allowed to accept gifts both within and outside of work premises. If a gift is allowed, the gift policy defines the acceptable value and type of gif .....

How to Set and Achieve Goals

70. Goals are objectives, targets, purposes, intentions and plans that you intend to achieve. You set your goals to inspire yourself to further success and achievement and to measure your progress on worthwhile contributions and accomplishments. Goals are personal and goals are established to support the goals and objectives of your work organization. Goals are most powerful when they are written, measurable, and regularly reviewed. .....

Gross Pay

71. Gross pay is the total amount of money that the employer pays in wages to an employee. Gross pay is computed based on how an employee is classified by his or her organization. An hourly or nonexempt employee is paid by multiplying the total number of hours worked by his or her hourly rate of pay. The nonexempt employee's paycheck may also include payments for overtime, bonuses, reimbursements, and so forth. .....

What Is Harassment

72. Workplace harassment is unwelcome conduct from a boss, coworker, group of coworkers, vendor, or customer whose actions, communication, or behavior mocks, demeans, puts down, disparages, or ridicules an employee. Physical assaults, threats and intimidation are forms of harassment. Harassment may also include offensive jokes, name calling, offensive nicknames, and offensive pictures or objects. Interfering with an employees ability to do his or her .....

Hiring Manager

73. The hiring manager is the employee who requested a new position to be filled or an employee to fill an open job. The hiring manager is the employee to whom the new employee will report when hired. The hiring manager is a key member of your employee recruitment team. .....

Hiring Freeze

74. In a hiring freeze, an employer decides to stop hiring employees for all non essential positions. It allows an employer to consolidate current employees and potentially restructure departments, to complete the work that is essential for serving the customers of the business. Even during a hiring freeze, smart employers continue to strategically hire in areas where skills are difficult to find and in positions that will immediately generate reven .....

What Is Hourly to Salary

75. In organizations where hourly and salary employees are employed, people view a move from an hourly or nonexempt position to a salary or exempt position as a promotion. Is such a move right for an employee? Most frequently: yes. But, the employee who receives or seeks such a position change needs to analyze the positives and potential negatives. Foremost is the fact that salary employees are not generally eligible for overtime pay as defined by th .....

What Is a Human Resource

76. Human Resources as: The people that staff and operate an organization; as contrasted with the financial and material resources of an organization. Human Resources is also the organizational function that deals with the people and issues related to people such as compensation, hiring, performance management, and training. .....

What Are Incentives at Work

77. An incentive is an object, item of value, or desired action or event that spurs an employee to do more of whatever was encouraged by the employer through the chosen incentive. Four kinds of incentives are available for employers to use at work. Im sure that others would categorize these incentives differently, but these four categories work for me. Compensation incentives may include items such as raises, bonuses, profit sharing, signing bonus, a .....

Sample Job Interview Questions for Employers to Ask Applicants

78. The job interview is a powerful factor in the employee selection process. It's a key tool that employers utilize in hiring. The job interview questions asked are critical in magnifying the power of the interview to help you select superior employees. Legal job interview questions and questions that separate desirable candidates from average candidates are fundamental in employee selection. The questions you ask matter to employers. Here are sampl .....

Tips for Interview Approaches

79. Interviewing is often just as stressful for the interviewer as it is for the job seeker. Knowing the different types of interviews, and why and when they are successful, can help make your interviews more comfortable for both parties. Organizations frequently try to come up with their own style for interviews. They have a perception about what interviewing can accomplish. Because of this practice, people who are looking for a job find the inconsi .....

Interns and Internships

80. Interns find internships for a variety of reasons. Interns need internships to: obtain experience in their degree field; earn money; find out about different jobs, fields, careers, employers, and workplaces; obtain needed experience to obtain a job; fulfill degree requirements; and learn about the world of work, in general. An internship is a temporary job at a work location that provides the work experience that an intern desires to obtain for a .....

Employee Onboarding

81. New employee orientation is the process you use for welcoming a new employee into your organization. New employee orientation, often spearheaded by a meeting with the Human Resources department, generally contains information about safety, the work environment, the new job description, benefits and eligibility, company culture, company history, the organization chart and anything else relevant to working in the new company. .....

Jury Duty

82. Interested in knowing employer specifics about jury duty? Jury duty occurs when an employee receives a summons from a Federal or state court to appear on a particular day and time to potentially serve on a jury. A jury is a panel of people who are assigned to render a verdict in a case submitted to them. To render a verdict is to decide whether an individual who has been charged with a crime is guilty or innocent. .....

Job Application

83. The job or employment application is the official form that employers ask all applicants for a position to fill out. The job application is filled out offline in a pen / paper format or, increasingly, online. The job application (see a variety of sample job applications) provides a consistent format with the same questions that must be answered by each person who applies for an open position. .....

Job Offer Letter

84. A job offer letter is a document that confirms the details of an offer of employment. The job offer letter includes details such as job description, reporting relationship, salary, bonus potential. benefits, vacation allotment, and more. The letter generally confirms the terms the employer and the candidate have agreed to for his employment during negotiations. .....

Job Profile

85. Do your employees need an easy to develop method for identifying the key components of their jobs? Consider using a job profile rather than a job description for recruiting, posting jobs, and clear direction and parameters for employees. The job profile outlines the details of an employee's job. These are the key components that you hired the employee to accomplish. In a straight forward, actionable format, the job profile presents a picture of a .....

What Do Job Titles Signify

86. Job titles are official names or designations for the title of an employee performing a specific job. Job titles designate a specific role, in a specific job, that has a particular status, at a particular level in thehierarchyof an organization. .....

Knowledge Management

87. Knowledge Management is the engine that transforms ideas into business value. Knowledge management is the systematic process for acquiring, creating, synthesizing, sharing and using information, insights and experiences to achieve organizational goals. .....

Lateral Move Provides a Career Path for an Employee

88. In a lateral move, an employee moves to an equivalent role in an organization, usually with a similar salary range and a job title at the same level. In a lateral move, though, the employee's job responsibilities change thus affording the employee new opportunities. A lateral move gives the employee a chance to expand his skills and network with a new circle of employees and customers. A lateral move is an opportunity for an employee to expand hi .....

Become a Learning Organization

89. Organizations with the best chance to succeed and thrive in the future are learning organizations. In his landmark book,The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization(Compare Prices), Peter Senge defined the learning organization. He said they were .....

Department of Labor

90. Department of Labor (DOL) is the federal agency charged with promoting the best interests of wage earners, job searchers, and retirees. The DOL does this by: improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic .....

Listening

91. Listening is to give your attention to something or someone who is making a sound. In active or deep listening, which are words used to describe effective listening styles, the listener exhibits certain powerful listening behaviors. This listening is perceived, by the person who is being listened to, as evidence that the listener is really hearing and understanding what the person is trying to communicate. .....

What Is a Part Time Employee

93. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not define what constitutes a part time employee. What is counted as a part time employee is generally defined by the employer by policy. The definition of a part time employee is often published in the employers employee handbook. A part time employee has traditionally worked less than a 40 hour work week. Today, though, some employers count employees as full time if they work 30, 32, or 36 hours a week. .....

What Is a Paycheck

94. A paycheck is a check issued by an employer in order to satisfy the compensation commitment the employer has with the employee. The paycheck is most frequently issued every two weeks, weekly or monthly. Employees generally receive 26 paychecks a year with the compensation paid in equal installments. Organizations usually require employees to turn in time cards to assist payroll accounting to track employees' time. .....

What Is a Raise

95. A raise is an increase in the amount of hourly pay or salary that an employee receives for work performed in an organization. Organizations provide raises for employees in a number of different ways and for a variety of reasons. A raise is considered a positive event because it increases the employee's take home pay. .....

Payroll Deductions

96. Need information about payroll deductions? Payroll deductions are either mandatory or voluntary. Mandatory Payroll Deductions: The employer is required by law to withhold payroll taxes from an employee's gross pay prior to issuing a paycheck to comply with government regulations. These are the mandatory payroll deductions for taxes. Federal income tax,State taxes, and Local (city, county) income tax withholding in some areas. (Other local taxes c .....

What Is Per Diem

97. Per diem is the Latin word that means per day or for each day. Per diem has several meanings related to Human Resources. Per diem is a daily allowance paid to employees for lodging and for meals, travel expenses, gas, and incidental expenses for each employee to spend per day on a business trip or when traveling away from their main office for business. Per diem rates are normally set at different rates for different locations and vary by the lev .....

Quality

98. Quality is the outcome of the sum of all of the features and characteristics of a program, process, or service that impact the ability of employees to meet or surpass the needs and requirements of a customer. Quality is a measure of excellence; quality defines desirable characteristics of a product, a process, or a service. Quality refers also to the character traits of an individual. One of the qualities of a leader is his or her ability to shar .....

Salary

99. Salary is a fixed amount of money or compensation paid to an employee by an employer in return for work performed. Salary is paid, most frequently, in a bi weekly paycheck to an exempt or professional employee. In most years, an employee's salary is paid in 26 even paychecks over the course of the year. An employee who is paid a salary is expected to complete a whole job in return for the salary. .....

Trust

100. In a culture of trust, transparent communication forms a foundation for building relationships. A sense of safety and a comfort level with interpersonal interaction pervades a worklace that has developed a culture of trust. According to Dr. Duane C. Tway, Jr. in his 1993 dissertation, A Construct of Trust, trust is, the state of readiness for unguarded interaction with someone or something. He developed a model of trust that includes three compon .....

Work Sharing

101. Work sharing is an Unemployment Insurance (UI) program that allows an employer to reduce the number of hours an employee works during a week while unemployment compensation makes up some of the difference in income. So, if a company is experiencing less demand for its products and consequently fewer sales and down revenue, it can submit a plan to UI requesting work sharing to cushion the reduced hours for its employees. .....