I recently had the opportunity to work with an organization that decided they wanted to update their employee policies and they were surprised to learn that they would also have to update employee contracts as a result. Why? The policies they were updating had an impact on the employment re...
Updating policies may mean new employee contracts
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Policies – things to think about
Management needs to have the latitude to make decisions – and – most employees want to feel like there are processes in place that make a workplace fair and everyone knows to some degree what is expected and that there is accountability. Basically, policies and procedures establish both the ...
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Handle Workplace Investigations with Care
Even with the best of intentions, we can make errors in workplace investigations that are very costly not only in directly visible ways, but also through indirect costs such as organizational reputation, employee morale and of course, turnover. When a complaint of wrong doing comes into an e...
Posted in Communication, Human Behaviour, Management Coaching, Workplace Investigations
Tagged Communication, Workplace Culture, Workplace Investigations
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What is Human Resources Anyway?
Interestingly enough, this is a very mis-understood area of work so I will attempt to provide an idea of what Human Resources people bring to an organization. As in many other professions, Human Resources work includes a number of specialties as well generalizations.
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Why Are We Losing Money?
Regardless of the size of your company, if you hire people to work for you; you need to seriously think about the process you are using to do that. It seems easy enough – you have a job to be filled– you place an ad – and people apply . . . but the reality of it is – not everyone works in th...
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