Proven Design Strategies To Create An Effective High Performance Workplace
According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: 4th Edition 2000, “management” is defined as (1). The act, manner, or practice of managing; handling, supervision, or control; or (2) The person or persons who control or direct business or other enterprise, and “performance” is defined as (1) the state of being performed or (2) something performed; an accomplishment. Adding them together, performance management would be defined as the state of performing accomplishments in a managed or controlled way.
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G-Forces at Work: Generational Forces at Work in the Workplace
Certainly the overheated economy of the 90’s created some ridiculous employee expectations. In a competitive market where demand for good workers far outpaced the supply, employees were behaving like spoiled children. But the greed of the times began amplifying something much more enduring: the generation gap is back, bringing its familiar clash in styles, values and expectations. Only this time, the battles are
taking place at work.
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Resolve to Update Your Employee Policies
The beginning of a new year is a great time to pull out all those employee policies and check to see whether they need updating and revising. It is also a perfect time to examine whether your business needs to adopt new employee policies. Whether you collect all your policies in a handbook or manual, maintain stand-alone policies, or have no policies at all, make it your new year’s resolution for 2006 to evaluate the need for changes.
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Assignment Limits and Concerns About Benefits Liability
Human resource professionals at organizations that use staffing services have concerns about benefits liability, stemming largely from litigation during the 1990s involving Microsoft Corp. (Vizcaino v. Microsoft). In the late 1980s, Microsoft used independent contractors to do the same kind of work done by its direct employees. After the Internal Revenue Service ordered the contractors to be reclassified as employees, Microsoft hired many of them directly or engaged them through staffing firms.
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