What makes an employee productive? Unproductive? “The key factor you can use to make employees miserable on the job is to simply keep them from making progress...
In addition to giving job-specific tests, the best way to tell if applicants carry the skills to perform specific tasks is to ask very direct questions about how...
You expect colleges and universities to prepare your youngest workers for their new jobs. But are you prepared for them? These digital natives quickly grow impatient...
Prepaid gift cards are an increasingly popular tool to motivate and reward employees. However, employers often weaken the impact by simply handing them out without a...
Americans simply don’t know how to take a vacation. Only 57% of U.S. workers use all the vacation days they’re allotted, compared with 89% of workers in...
While a casual dress policy may be a great way to boost morale during the warm days, tank tops and flip-flops are more appropriate attire for the beach than for the...
Every year, you probably receive (or help write) your performance evaluation. But have you really evaluated your job lately? Doing a “career audit” is a way...
When it comes to making job offers, you or your hiring managers could be inadvertently locking the organization into employment contracts with new hires. Written...
There’s nothing like a young manager—bright-eyed, full of pep and ideas, ready to make his or her mark in the organization. But often, the young manager...
With employment litigation rising steadily, the employee handbook has become an essential tool in the employer’s arsenal to defend against liability for employment...
Mentor-based North Coast Wood Products has settled a Department of Labor lawsuit alleging the company’s owner illegally diverted money from 11 participants in the...
Q. We want to hire someone who signed a noncompete agreement with his current employer. He asked us to indemnify him in the event his employer sues him. What are the...
Great bosses aren't born, they're made. Becoming a great boss requires honest self-analysis and periodic reassessments. The following checklist was designed to...
Nobody argues the fact that Robert McNamara was a genius. The Ford Motor Co. whiz kid who led the Pentagon into the Vietnam War, and the World Bank into unprecedented...
Neutralizing a negative attitude takes time and plenty of effort. However, another aspect of turning around negativity lies in the little things you do, which may just...
Assertiveness is a key component to being an effective manager, and is particularly important when dealing with difficult employees who thrive on testing your...
Q. A new hire is refusing to provide his Social Security number because he does not want taxes withheld from his paycheck. He argues that since he is Native...
