Human Resources 101

The time for making resolutions is at hand. If you’re looking for ways to improve the relationships you have with staff or co-workers, Dave Cheong has some good ideas for encouraging others.

Show genuine interest
Acknowledge what’s important to them
Say “Well done”
Say “Thank you”
Reciprocate the favour
Respond with something unexpected
Ask for advice or confide in them
Offer to [...]

Slacker Manager gives a few tips on creating personalized greetings for you staff. I have been giving some thought to a generic e-greeting. After reading the post, I’ve changed my mind. I’ll need to put aside a couple of hours tomorrow to get some cards written.
There’s something to be said for a hand-written greeting, personalized [...]

A study looks at how the organization’s culture contributes to or causes employee burnout.
Lack of respect from the organization — rather than job demands or personality — is responsible for employees leaving their organizations, according to a new study from a Wharton management professor.
Human Resource Executive Online – Fueling Employee Burnout

There are few this I dislike more than networking. The thought of going into a room full of strangers makes me wish my arm gets chopped off so I could go to the hospital instead. Even profressional association meetings, where we share a common interest, make me uncomfortable.
Robert May, an introvert himself has posted some [...]

Hence workers pulling into the company’s amenity-packed headquarters at 2 p.m. aren’t considered late. Nor are those pulling out at 2 p.m. seen as leaving early. There are no schedules. No mandatory meetings. No impression-management hustles. Work is no longer a place where you go, but something you do. It’s O.K. to take conference calls [...]

When it comes to motivating workers to provide great service, which works better: the carrot or the stick?
The restaurant business, which depends on service more heavily than most other industries, offers a glimpse into how companies juggle rewards and reprimands to motivate employees.

Positive Approach
Measuring Performance
Inherent Skills

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“Many famous, successful people have been using this as their secret tool,” Mednick says. “What I’ve always found is that the CEO is usually the one who’s allowed to nap. It’s a huge leap, I think, for bosses to consider letting employees do the same thing that they do to be productive.”
Those same bosses won’t [...]

Guy Browning offers 20 top tips for surviving life in the workplace Guy Browning offers 20 top tips for surviving life in the workplace. Number 6 is great.
Get up to speed with the jargon
What differentiates a business thought from a normal thought is that business thoughts have a “going forward” at the end of [...]

More than a million Canadian workers, or about 1 in 12, are dissatisfied with their jobs, a Statscan survey released Tuesday suggests – and that dissatisfaction leads to stress and depression, researchers warn.
The 2002 Canadian Community Health Survey, which focused on mental health and well-being, said just over six per cent of workers were “not [...]

Do your co-workers find the rumor du jour hard to resist? Is your office laced with backbiting and backstabbing? April Callis of Springboard Consulting says she has the cure: Gossip Stoppers. The East Lansing, Mich., trainer has given this half-day workshop 30 times this year at infected workplaces like hospitals and universities and is now [...]