How to handle an employee’s pay rise request
One of your employees has asked for a pay rise and it’s up to you to respond. But how do you make the right decision?
Boosting your teams’ productivity levels over summer
Summer can be a challenging time to maintain productivity in the workplace. With holidays and the lure of outdoor activities, it's no wonder that employees may find it difficult to stay focused.
Tips to Help New Employees Adapt to a New Work…
The sales season of September and October is, incidentally, also a peak time for changing jobs. Whether they are a normal employee without experience, an experienced department head or even a veteran manager - any employee who has left their former employer will have to go being a new employee in a new company when they start a new job.
The Negotiation Skills of Workplace Professionals
Often in people's minds, negotiation is associated with conflict — the word that tends to make people feel nervous or unhappy. In truth, negotiation doesn't necessarily imply convincing the person you are speaking to. Highly skilled negotiation is the key to neutralizing conflict, resolving problems and ensuring mutual gains.
The Difference between Performance Management and…
1.A Vital ToolPerformance management and performance evaluation are different things, but many companies fail to see this difference, concentrating their efforts on the evaluation part only. So much so that some companies have specially set up performance evaluation teams, which carry out daily, weekly and monthly target evaluations and then give out grades and apply punishment and reward. Such an approach can lead to staff attaching excessive importance to meeting their own performance targets and neglecting team work, which can affect the stability of the team. Performance management, on the other hand, is a tool which raises the performance of the whole group, as well as of the individuals.
Top tips for HR professionals on salary adjustments
As one of the essential parts of salary management, salary adjustments, which on rare occasions may involve a salary reduction, usually indicate a wage increase.
Whose fault is poor implementation?
Most business owners think that poor implementation is a result of problems with employees’ abilities and attitudes. This is incorrect. Poor implementation is merely a result—the root of the problem itself is poor management. In practice, the phenomenon can be understood in this way: individual cases of poor implementation are caused by a lack of ability, whereas poor implementation across the whole company is caused by a lack of effective management.