Should You Allow Employees to Use Their Own Devices for Work?
A trend that has been growing for years is the use of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies, which allow employees to use their own personal devices such as phones and laptops for work.
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How to Prevent Cheating on Workplace Exams
Tests and assessments aren’t just for students; they serve a crucial purpose for businesses, including keeping employees sharp and ensuring they’re up to date on the latest information. The results can also help business leaders make better, more informed decisions.
Pros and Cons of Offering Employee Loans
Has your organization considered offering employee loans as a benefit? Given the number of people in the United States who live paycheck to paycheck, there are a lot of employees out there who are one emergency away from needing financial assistance in some form.
Spot Awards–A Detailed Plan You Can Use
In yesterday’s Advisor, consultants Brandon Cherry and Brooke Green detailed incentive plans for non-exempt employees. Today, their take on recognition and spot bonuses, plus an introduction to the comprehensive guide to non-exempt compensation. Here are the last two of Cherry and Green’s Six types of incentive. [Go here for the first four types.] Cherry and […]
Well, That Escalated Quickly
I am still agog at the Antonio Brown situation several days later. For those of you who don’t follow sports or the NFL, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ wide receiver (and generational talent) can be combustible. Since building a Hall of Fame-worthy career over many years in Pittsburgh, he’s unfortunately become fodder more for tabloid-esque behavior than […]
What is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act?
We hear a lot about civil rights and nondiscrimination, and most HR professionals have at least a basic knowledge of employee nondiscrimination rights. But when it comes right down to it, what exactly is in Title VII? It’s probably the most commonly referenced law relating to nondiscrimination in the workplace, so it’s important to be […]
10 Employee Morale Crushers
Employee morale is perhaps one of the most important but most difficult things to manage. It’s critical to maintain high morale in order to increase retention, but it’s often difficult to get an accurate read on how employees feel and what is causing them to be dissatisfied.
Sales Compensation—Pay Level and Pay Mix
Yesterday’s Advisor posed many of the tricky questions surrounding sales incentive compensation. Today, options for sales comp, plus an introduction to the program specially directed at smaller HR departments. The most important design features in a sales compensation program are the pay level (how much) and pay mix (proportion of incentive pay to base pay). […]
‘I am appalled’ by SHRM/HRCI Brouhaha (Talk-Back)
We got a large number of comments responding to last week’s epinion concerning the brouhaha brewing over SHRM’s decision to start offering its own certifications, in competition with HRCI. [See the original post here.] None of the comments is positive and most of the negativity is directed toward SHRM. Two readers cleverly turned the sample […]
3 Ways HR Is Defining the New Normal
The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a tragic toll from a human and public health standpoint, along with causing massive business disruption, resulting in some businesses shutting down completely. In contrast, others have had to rapidly expand service teams and ramp up production to meet increased demands, while many companies have become remote workplaces practically overnight.