Tag Archives: management

Feb 05

A Master’s Degree in Human Resources Management — 100% Online

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Earn your Master of Human Resource Management degree and tailor your program to suit your individual interests and career goals. Coursework within Keller’s MHRM program is in alignment with the HR Curriculum Guidelines and Templates established by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the largest association of the HR profession and the leading source of guidance on continuing education for HR professionals. You will be contacted by an admissions representative from DeVry University’s Keller Graduate School of Management to discuss continuing your education. Applicants must have completed their Bachelor’s Degree. Request Free!

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Jan 28

Compensation Management in the Recovering Economy

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Many businesses took extraordinary measures to ensure their survival during the recession. Now, there may end up being unintended consequences as the economy pulls out of its tailspin, including losses in the area of growth and productivity, and a difficult time retaining valuable employees. As a result, it is now imperative for organizations to adopt compensation practices that will improve all three of these trouble spots. Among those practices: Linking strategic business goals to employees’ day-to-day efforts Using incentive pay to drive retention and innovation Tying compensation practices to performance, succession and learning Additional compensation and bonuses are two of the top three reasons employees stay with or leave their organizations. Download Plateau’s white paper, Compensation Management in the Recovering Economy , and understand why businesses that want to be prepared for growth during the recovery must take proactive steps now to build effective compensation solutions that encourage retention, productivity and growth. Request Free!

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Jan 26

Three HR Trends You Cannot Ignore

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Human Resources technology decisions are driven by a need to access information and report on it meaningfully. There are three major trends that present some daunting tasks for HR departments. However, each can be reasonably managed with the right technology, like an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system that can tie the information in different systems together and keep control of it through its lifecycle. Request Free!

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Sep 02

Manage Enterprise Data with Integrated Data Management

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Integrated Data Management is an approach that can deliver those benefits. It helps enable organizations to manage enterprise application data—from requirements to retirement—across diverse environments. The benefits of such a solution include improved manageability, optimized performance, improved data privacy and protection and improved alignment—across IT roles and between business units and IT. It also helps enterprises control data management costs, reduce risks and maximize the performance of data-driven applications. Adopting an Integrated Data Management strategy can be a highly effective way to help IT support business growth, facilitate data governance and manage costs. It is also key to helping ensure that the enterprise derives maximum competitive advantage from its data. Request Free!

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Jun 23

Employee Performance Management: Alpha and Omega of Talent Strategy

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In April and May 2010, Aberdeen surveyed nearly 400 organizations worldwide regarding their Employee Performance Management (EPM) initiatives. The study showed that although organizations are optimistic about a recovering economy, growth in the short term will be achieved through efficiencies and not through headcount. Aligning individual efforts with the goals of the organization will play an integral role in achieving this growth. Incorporating individual goals, standardizing the employee performance process, and leveraging employee performance data across talent management elements will pay huge dividends. Making performance part of the organizational culture specifically via visibility, accountability and regular communications emerged as key capabilities that earned Best-in-Class top performance. Request Free!

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Apr 19

HR Daily Advisor

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Keep up-to-date with the latest HR issues, trends, and ever changing employment law. HR Daily Advisor will help you: Save Time – with concise, complete, actionable information Stay Up-to-Date – a team of experts does the research for you Succeed – Plain English analysis and advice is immediately useful For a limited time also receive a Free Special Report, Top 10 Best Practices in HR Management for 2010 . Register for HR Daily Advisor Today! Request Free!

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Dec 04

Workforce Management

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Published twice monthly by Crain Communications, Inc., Workforce Management is the leading business publication for workforce management and human resources professionals providing news, trends and analysis to 52,000 print and more than 428,000 registered online subscribers. Other products include a weekly email newsletter, Workforce Week®; twice-monthly newsletter, Dear Workforce®, providing a forum for expert human resources Q&A; and the industry respected Optimas Awards. Now in its 85th year, Workforce Management is one of the oldest and one of the largest continuously published business magazines in the United States. Request Free!

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Oct 05

The Pillars of Employee Performance Management for Mid/Large Companies

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Does your organization consider Employee Performance Management a laborious, tactical annual practice, or is it a strategic, business-critical cycle? Maybe it’s time to reassess. Now more than ever, HR professionals like you are tasked with optimizing Employee Performance Management processes across the board to ensure the most efficient use of corporate resources. Employee Performance Management has the power to accelerate time-to-revenue, reduce risks, and help your mid/large organization proactively address threats and opportunities. What you will learn: How to derive real value from Employee Performance Management How HR can help align a mid/large organization’s goals Best practices for successful competency management Five costly succession planning errors to avoid How to manage compensation during the economic crunch Request Free!

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Apr 22

It’s Not The Difficult People, It’s The Difficult Behavior – Excerpt From The Complete Idiots’ Guide To Dealing With Difficult People

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It’s Not The Difficult People, It’s The Difficult Behavior

It’s a human tendency to identify people as being difficult or easy to get along with, and that affects how we interact with them. But the question is, is it that some people are difficult or is it their behavior that bothers us?

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Apr 19

Ignoring The Law of Unintended Consequences – Common Managerial Mistakes Series

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Even the most experienced managers, supervisors, or executives forget about the Law of Unintended Consequences, which says that for every change or action, there are both positive consequences (which, obviously the manager wants), and negative unintended consequences (which the manager doesn’t want). Learn more about this common and often catastrophic situation.

Mary is the head of a realty/real estate company. She decides to create a contest, where the real estate agent that sells the most property (in dollars), will receive a ten thousand dollar bonus. Makes sense. Motivation. Incentive.

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