by Caroline | Nov 4, 2015 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting, teamwork
Every year around this time, retailers, restaurants and others who are gearing up for holiday traffic start hiring their seasonal workers. Of course they’re not the only ones with seasonal work demand. Tax companies will need folks in a few months and resorts and...
by Caroline | Oct 28, 2015 | Company Culture, Management, Non profit HR
I talk about planning a lot. The reason for that is twofold: One, I’m a consultant and I know darn good and well that when I am in the middle of, say, writing an employee handbook, clients are going to call and need me to address an urgent matter like, “I just found...
by Caroline | Oct 21, 2015 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, HRCompliance, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, rewards
Every year, there is at least one book and a spate of articles about the evils of annual performance reviews. Basically it’s the same theme – Toss the reviews! Ban the process! These writers think performance reviews shouldn’t exist. They say managers hate them...
by Caroline | Oct 14, 2015 | Assessments, Company Culture, Management, Non profit HR, rewards, teamwork
Last week I heard a TED talk by Margaret Heffernan about productivity and chickens. In a study mentioned in the talk, a researcher cultivated several generations of chickens, eventually culling the most productive into one coop and leaving the others in a different...
by Caroline | Oct 7, 2015 | HRCompliance, HRIS, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR
I read a statistic recently that 77 percent of HR professionals say their departments have gone paperless. And I started thinking about the other 23 percent, having people come in and get a piece of paper and fill out all the boxes—oops, mistake? Scratch it out, or,...
by Caroline | Sep 9, 2015 | Company Culture, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
I heard a story today about the changing culture of work. They talked about the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant that was formed in Fremont, California, between GM and Toyota. The old GM plant had been one of the worst plants in the history of auto...
