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Test Yourself: Are You An Mba Clone?
In our hyper-competitive markets, MBA clones pose an imminent and tangible threat to the competitiveness of the companies they work for. Many executives today attend the same MBA programs, study the same books, read the same newspapers and magazines, and go to the same conferences and workshops. Standardization in MBA programs results in a similarity in the professional approach and managerial thinking of their graduates.
Dr. Herman's 10 "De-Clone Yourself" Tips For Mba Clones
Are you an MBA Clone? Was your business education more like "business programming"? If your answer is yes, you are probably not fully aware of the fact that you have been "produced", together with many other executives, to think and act in a similar predictable manner, as many MBA programs around the world gravitate towards standard no-diversity sets of default concepts and tools.
Recruitment And Retention: Keep Employees You Want, Hire Those You Need
Unfortunately, the adage, “good help is hard to find,” is more fact than fiction. Each year, companies deal with employee turnover. Although many people seek new jobs, only a handful of workers are typically qualified and dedicated.
Maintaining A Happy And Healthy Employee Base Is Crucial For Business
Human resource employees have a daunting job; they must keep current, potential and former employees happy. Keeping a balance and affectively communicating with all employees at a company, being patient with each employee’s different personality and providing benefits that cater to all takes a creative, resourceful and intelligent human resource department.
Managers, Employees Can Work Through Generation Gaps
Managers born before 1960 have two battles to fight daily – the “war for talent” and the “generational war” with workers born in the 1960s and 1970s, not to mention the up-and-coming “nexters.”
6 Interview Questions To Find The Right People To Hire
Hiring new employees has one of the greatest impacts on a business. Typical interviews focus on qualifications and how well individuals present themselves. However, the most important quality of an employee is good character. Once interviews are over, decisions usually come down to the employer’s intuitions about each applicant’s character. Unfortunately, those who “perform” well in interviews are not always those who have the best character.
Considerations Before Setting Up Your Companies Plastic ID Cards
Before you begin designing ID cards for your organization, here are four elements you should review before starting to layout your creation. After being in the industry for years and assisting in the design for thousands of companies we realize the many uses of an identification card. No matter what your reason for creating an ID card, these elements should at least be reviewed.
Employee Training – Track It And They Will Come
Yes, the times they are a changing, that has always been true … but with technology in the picture, the changes are so rapid that what we learned yesterday is likely to be outdated tomorrow. In today’s world we must never stop learning, and if we have a workforce, we must never stop teaching.
You’re Fired! If Only It Were That Easy
I think I speak for all managers around the country when I say that we have all, in our darker moments, fantasized about mimicking Sir Alan Sugar’s catchphrase on ‘The Apprentice’ and telling an employee in no uncertain terms that they need to clear their desk and leave: “You’re fired!”
Layoffs And Downsizing In 2007
Many businesses are being forced to downsize their number of employees to cut costs or because the business feels it should operate with fewer employees. Downsizing is the act of reducing the number employees on a company’s payroll and is considered different than layoffs. Downsizing is scaling down the number of employees permanently rather than temporarily like layoffs.
Keeping Employees May Be As Easy As Training Them
Over the past several years, businesses have conducted surveys of their employees trying to determine what it will take to keep them happy on the job. For those that believed that paying higher wages would be the key to reducing employee turnover, the results of the surveys have been surprising. Not only was pay scales not top on the list, in most cases it barely made the top five reasons stated for employees to stay with a certain company.
Keeping The Line Clear Between Bosses And Employees
There might be many chances that you have to become too friendly with some of your employees. This is something that is a too easy to do - there are many situations in which you might find yourself getting too close to someone that you work with. It is very easy to find yourself getting closer to someone that you work with, and this could end up being a major problem.
Never Show Up Late To Work
Consistently showing up late to work sends an unprofessional message to bosses, colleagues, and clients. If you are late too often you could be fired, or develop a bad reputation that forces people to look for someone else when the services you provide are needed. While everyone shows up late occasionally, being late every day or for every meeting will not be tolerated by most people.
Four Steps Toward The Raise Or Promotion You Deserve
Most everyone has been in the situation at one time or another in their lives. Working hard, doing what is expected of them, and seemingly being passed over when it comes to raises and promotions. It may cause feelings of resentment and the desire to seek out a new place of employment as soon as possible. It some cases, this may be unavoidable.
Undocumented Worker Legislation - A New Reality For California Employers
When Michael Young* received a “No Match Social Security” letter from the Social Security Administration, he discounted it, as he had always done in the past. As the owner of Growing Expectations*, a small landscape design company in Southern California, he was too busy hiring employees, processing payroll and managing his insurance obligations. “I receive letters like this [from the SSA] all the time.
Employment Tasks Equal Business Opportunity
Business opportunities from home are gaining strength each year. Many parents are looking for opportunities to leave the workforce and stay at home with their children. Some of these parents fear that the gap left on their resumes, from staying at home, will make future employment difficult. They are also afraid that their skills and knowledge will become rusty and outdated during that time.
The Underappreciated Value Of Online Training
Ask just about any human resources professional what they consider as the most important part in employee development and most will likely tell you that training is it. The workplace is in constant change therefore keeping staff up to date with change is critically important to the way business is conducted. Without a well trained and informed staff, customers will go elsewhere.
Important Reasons To Train Your Personnel
It has been said that people is the key driver to the success of the business because they are the most important asset. This is the reason why the management tries to retain as much key people as possible to ensure the continual success of the business. However, before your personnel can truly become beneficial to the company, they need to be trained.
How To Interview Employees
One of the most difficult things for an employer is to interview for new employees and with many legal requirements there are a lot of things to remember not to do as well as trying to remember everything you have to do.
How To Build A Better Workplace
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of http://www.Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Jane Treber Macken author of The Art of Managing...How to Build a Better Workplace and Relationships
The Responsibilities Of An Administrative Assistant
In any company, one of the employees with the biggest variety of responsibilities is the Administrative Assistant. A good Administrative Assistant is constantly flexible, and doesn’t limit his or her responsibilities to typing or filing or answering phones. As an Administrative Assistant’s prime responsibility is the running of the office, the work of an Admin changes from day to day.
How To Choose Proper Business Attire
Choosing proper business attire may seem simple, but as times and fashion change it can create some tough choices. When most of our grand mothers were in the business field clothing was modest. Longer skirts and suit jackets that covered up the feminine physique. A look that was bland and often uncomfortable. For most of our mother’s business attire began to take a change.
Human Resources Outsourcing And Peos: Faq
You’ve heard the news about outsourcing Human Resources functions and have wondered if it’s all just hype. While there is a certain amount of marketing hype in the messages about HR outsourcing (HRO), the numbers reveal that it is a market reality that is here to stay.
Self-employment Is About Freedom
To be able to attend meetings in your bathrobe and slippers. To get up every morning when you want and snuggle up to your kitten while you work. Sound like the perfect job?
How To Keep Employees Happy With Gifts
Hearing the scream of your alarm clock Monday through Friday can be unpleasant. This experience is worse, however, when you dread the place you work.
Office Politics
In almost every working environment we are faced with office politics. It seems to find a way of involving us and usually not by choice. The key to coping with these circumstances without crossing any ethical boundaries is to first and foremost decide what is of importance to you- the short term chance of promotion or the long term value of your professional development, which can take a life time to build but can serve as inspiration for lif...
Online Auction Sites And Home Business Opportunities
Online auction sites can be a great home business opportunity. These sites specialize in the buying and selling of merchandise, new and used, as well as services. The most well known site of this nature is E-Bay, but there are numerous other sites out there available for home business opportunities.
When The Board Wants A New CEO - And It Isn't You
You're still nursing your hangover from the funding celebration party, thrilled that your startup is flush with cash after months of scrimping and scraping. Now the financiers want to beef up the executive team. First order of business? A new CEO. Hey, wait a sec—that's your job. Well, maybe it is better for the company's future to have a seasoned CEO, but why wasn't this discussed in the financing process?
Can You Increase Sales Without Working Overtime?
Increasing sales is how many companies stay in business. But in order to do so, you and your team probably have to spend more hours at the office than you would like. This means fewer days off for vacation, and less free time to spend with friends and family. But there are ways to increase sales without having to work eighty hours a week.
How To Hire Executive Protection
Doing business sometimes comes along with a high degree of risk. There are patents that might be stolen. There are top secret plans that competitors are interested in obtaining. There's the money that comes from a high level of success.
Employers: Save Time By Hiring A Private Investigator To Conduct An Employee Background Check
If you are in business, you know that it's important to have a variety of information about those individuals who are working with you. This is true whether the position involves a security detail, handling large amounts of cash or working with a great deal of information such as the social security numbers and credit information for your company's clients.
Measuring The Return On Investment Of The Hr Function
Traditionally measuring a Return on Investment followed a fairly standard calculation method - look at the profit generated and divide that by the value of the assets being utilized in creating that profit.
Why Should You Make Friends With Co-workers?
Cooperation is the key to success in any business and workers who can work together can mean the difference between success or failure. By making friends with co-workers it can ease competition for the affection of the boss and help allay any suspicion that you are going to stab the other folks in the back to further your own career.
Training Courses – Is It The Best Way To Train Employees?
Training in its broadest sense is the provision of information to allow someone to carry out an old task better or to learn to perform a new task. Yet training is often seen as an extra cost and therefore affecting the bottom line. When the business environment is difficult it can be one of the first costs to be cut.
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