How to Keep Your Employees: Part One Every year businesses spend huge amounts of money recruiting, interviewing, equipping, and training new employees. Many of these new hires are replacements for old hands who have left for greener pastures. The recruiting costs are easily counted. But how about the costs of lost productivity and the lost customers who moved to along with the old employee? Another hidden cost is an angry...more
Engage your Staff with an Employee Contract Template If you want your employees, especially those that are newly hired, to stay committed to their job and do productive things, then a contract of employment should be provided to them. A contract of employment helps both you and your employees to understand each other. The contract will state clearly your responsibilities to one another so it is safe to assume that it will be...more
How Too Much Lifting At Work Leaves Employees With Work Hernias Hernias are five times more common among men than women, and around 95% of these injuries are medically defined as 'inguinal' hernias. An inguinal hernia involves a rupture in the abdominal wall, through which fat tissues or portions of intestine protrude. Though an inguinal hernia may not be painful initially, there will be a noticeable bump in the groin region, and the hernia is likely to ache during physical activities such as lifting and bending. Inguinal hernias are defined as either 'indirect', when the cause is a congenital defect in the abdominal wall, or 'direct', when physical activity has degraded the abdominal muscles, causing the rupture. It is estimated that around 70,000 hernia repair operations are carried out in the UK every year, the vast majority successfully. An inguinal hernia will however often result in a lengthy period of time off work, and related loss of earnings. An injured person may be unable to resume heavy lifting tasks at work, and may be forced to accept a less well-paid role, or even change professions.Doctors will always recommend surgery when an inguinal hernia is...more
Local company screws around to build employee morale A joint study by The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM; Washington, D.C.) and Deloitte and Touche (New York) estimates that the mass retirement of the baby-boom-generation workers will create a need for 10 million qualified employees between 2012 and 2020. Given the...more
Keeping Your Employees Calm and Cool Can Help Boost Morale The summer may be a long way off for now with plenty of people still feeling the cold from our record low temperatures clocked up over the winter months. But soon there will come the time when the sun gets that little bit stronger and many offices and industrial workplaces...more
Be Bold Enough to Fire an Employee One of the challenges as an Entrepreneur and business owner is when faced with making a decision whether to keep or fire a staff. When I started the kopitiam, one of the managerial staff under our payroll was lacking in punctuality at work. He kept reporting late for work. But that was not the main problem. The problem was that since he was the managerial staff whose presence is needed to open accounts for the business day, all the other staff will have to wait for him before starting work. Hence, this created a hurdle to the business. A kopitiam business needs to open very early in the morning to catch a breakfast crowd. No point opening it at 8am - everybody's already in their respective office starting work proper. Warning after warning and yet he kept repeating it. This was already setting a bad example to the other workers. As directors, we had to speak to him, essentially asking him to buck up. Or shall I say "My way or the highway". To cut the story short, he didn't show any effort to improve and we promptly...more
How to get the very best out of your employees A compant may provide a good product or service to its customers, but if it doesn't get the best of its workforce then it could potentially notice that it's throwing away time, its budget,...more
Employee Attrition in IT Industry – A Sign of Growth By, S.SALEEM, Final MBASrikaliswari college, Sivakasi.In today's scenario, Indian IT companies are facing a "fast-growth-high-opportunity" challenge. According to the Britannica...more
Optimizing Employee Contributions This article describes proven techniques that managers and prospective managers can use to diagnose employee problems, coach employees, mentor star performers, and turn on teamwork. All of these...more
Employee Contracts are Easy to Create If you are still new in running a company, then you must learn ways on how to improve your relationship with your employees. If you are able to establish a good relationship with your employees,...more
How do you manage your employee's attendance? It is very important to track the entry of each and every visitor and other people at your office and home. You may have some of the confidential data of your organizations which must...more
Know Your Employee Benefits Each and every state of US has its own labor law. If an employee is deceived of his or her rights, that person can check with the state labor law to understand whether his or her rights can be protected...more