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Attention Employees: Take Note Of Inappropriate Casual Office Attire
By: Amy Twain
It’s casual Fridays again, and it’s summer! But remember that just because it means casual, doesn’t mean that you can wear anything inappropriate.
Sometimes, what’s acceptable in your personal lifestyles may not be the same for your professional life. When you go to work, take note that you represent your company and you don’t want to compromise your reputation for the sake of fashion.
Here are some inappropriate casual office attire: (more…)
7 Easy (and Cheap) Ways To Motivate Your Employees
By: Robert J Sullivan
It’s tough out there right now and many managers have gone through layoffs and pay freezes within their departments. In many cases, employee morale is at an all-time low. While you may not be able to use money as a motivator, there are several inexpensive (and sometimes free) ways to motivate staff.
1. Communicate! In virtually every study ever done managers rate themselves as good communicators, however in those same studies employees rate their managers as poor communicators. You cannot focus on this subject enough. Poor communication only leads to distrust and fear – both of which do not lead to happy, motivated and productive employees. (more…)
Motivating Employees: Motivating The Challenge-driven Employee
By: K. MacKillop
Most good leaders and employees are motivated internally through challenging themselves to improve their own skills, experience, and productivity. Internal motivation is very powerful when present, and can be easily quashed by micromanagement and ineffective delegation. The key to keeping challenge-motivated workers at their best is to develop your company culture to encourage autonomy and professional development across the board.
Building a challenge-motivating culture can be difficult for some entrepreneurs. The same self-assurance and drive to do things right that makes an entrepreneur successful can also make it difficult to trust employees to work on their own. But, if you plan to grow your business, you will have to rely on your staff to do things right on their own. Good employees will not only cover the tasks that you don’t have time for, but will also contribute their own knowledge and skills to drive the success of your venture. (more…)
Even if the world economy is in a downturn, the importance of retaining quality employees still remains to be a priority among managers and HR (Human Resource) professionals. Even if companies have been chucking out employees month after month, the need to keep the best generals is still at its peak. After all, regardless of the state of the economy, the fact remains: you need to keep your best employees.
The employee retention function is more of a managerial function, rather than an HR function. After all, “employees don’t leave companies, but managers.” To this effect, it is just rational that retention strategies have to deal with the managers.
Here are a couple of great employee retention strategies:
You need to ensure your employees feel they are being considered as a valuable business resource more so than perhaps the fleet of company vehicles! Valued employees will function well as will constantly maintained vehicles given the time to focus on the day to day running and requirements. The big difference of course is that your employees require this as an emotional state. Don’t under estimate your employees as being of great resource to your company and treat them with this in mind and you may just find you are off to an amazing future with your business.
Having well trained employees is a great benefit to any business large or small. Almost nobody will come to a come with all the necessary training completed. Every business has different facets and nuances that must be learned by new staff so don’t dismiss training of your employees as they can be a great business resource. (more…)
Tips In Making A Good Employee Motivation Questionnaire
By: Lucile Taylor
Motivation is as equally important to success as talent or personal qualities. With an employee motivation questionnaire, you can gain insight to the factors that motivates each of your employees so you can boost their performance and help them maximize their potential. You can use an employee motivation questionnaire for staff members at all levels.
An employee motivation questionnaire is a tool to measure the motivation of a worker, giving the management a broad understanding of what factors fuel motivation as well as reduce it. It can also help in identifying how long an employee will keep his efforts and what situations will drive him so. By asking your staff to complete an employee motivation questionnaire, you can become better equipped to develop strategies to lower staff turnover. (more…)
E-Verify was originally introduced to employers as the Basic Pilot Program. The program was developed to provide employers with a free internet-based system where they could determine employment eligibility of new hires and the validity of their Social Security numbers. The system is operated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) partnered with the Social Security Administration (SSA). Employers are able to verify the employment eligibility of their employees, regardless of citizenship. Based on information provided by the employee on his or her Form I-9, E-Verify confirms this information electronically against records contained by DHS and SSA databases.
