About Writer Paul Phillips is a Director of Horizon Management Group; a consulting firm which assists businesses manage their people more effectively. He has over 30 years experience in human resources and, while based in Australia, has worked in a number of overseas locations. http://www.horizonmg.com
Effective Human Resource Management Implicit in most jobs with the title manager and people reporting to them is the responsibility of managing their people. However, for many, this is often seen as an extra chore that gets in the way of doing their functional job such as selling, accounting, marketing or manufacturing. ... Similar Editorial : Human Resource Outsourcing by dpoon. | Source : Corporate Businesses
Do Your People Think About Pay? - Only If Youve Got It Wrong If your people are standing around talking about pay, you've probably got it wrong. While pay is a key part of working it really shouldn't become a major talking point.Getting pay right is an important part of managing people but, like issues such as safety and a pleasant work environm... Similar Editorial : OK People by Cathy Bryant. | Source : Corporate Businesses
Training And Development - Start With Where You Want To Finish Much of the training undertaken by business is quite reactive and carried out for some diverse reasons. The glossy brochure which arrives at a time when Sally has been complaining about the job, or pay, or both. The leadership course which "seems like a good idea". Well, we always want... Similar Editorial : The Development of GPS by Gary Lowry. | Source : Career Advancement
Doing More Than The Numbers - How You Do Them Is Important We recently heard someone authoritatively state that performance reviews were unnecessary if suitable numbers were in place. They were referring to a sales process that was, in itself, very logical, measurable, and had been proven to be effective. But what of the people who interact with those... Similar Editorial : What are 800 Numbers by Jatin Chawla. | Source : Corporate Businesses
Give People A Reason To Stay - Get Them Engaged With the looming shortage of talent we are facing, smart companies are taking action now. We feel the key actions are: ? Keeping the good people you already have? Having the good people perform and? Recruiting well - finding the right people to meet your current and future needs... Similar Editorial : The Reason Nothing Happens by Edward B. Toupin. | Source : Career Advancement
Keeping And Using Corporate Expertise Why does the mention of training summon up thoughts of expensive courses, and consultants for many employers? We have found that much of a business's expertise is in the heads of some key employees. Waiting for it to float across and infect others or sending people off to external cours... Similar Editorial : Exposing Your Expertise by Philippa Gamse. | Source : Corporate Businesses
Knowing The Boundaries - And Keeping Staff Out Of Trouble The office was a very social place and the staff enjoyed a laugh. Jokes were told and after work drinks were a regular and enjoyable occurrence. Then it went just a bit too far. One of the email jokes forwarded upset the new girl and one of the men over did the celebrating at Christmas lunch a... Similar Editorial : Knowing About GERD by kevinp. | Source : Career Advancement
Getting The Right People - People Who Fit Jim Collins in his book Good to Great talks about "getting the right people on the bus" before deciding where to drive it. A key factor in getting the right people is understanding what competencies we are looking for and how to find out if someone has these. Identifying kn... Similar Editorial : Lead People by Brian Ward. | Source : Career Advancement
Give People A Reason To Stay - Help Them "Fit" We have previously written about defining what people need to do in their job to give them a sense of achievement and link their results to those of the organization. Let's now look at how they do it.Someone once said, quite wisely, "we hire people for what they can do and fire them fo... Similar Editorial : The Reason Nothing Happens by Edward B. Toupin. | Source : Career Advancement
Bank Crisis From A HR Perspective Would you fly on an airline that provided huge bonuses to pilots based on how many passengers and how much freight they could cram on their aircraft and on how few costs they incur? Not unless you were desperate. We really want those people up the front end of our plane to be hired on their skills a... Similar Editorial : A Bankruptcy Attorneys Perspective by David M. Siegel. | Source : Corporate Businesses
How To Find The Round Pegs Our client had to terminate a senior manager, a process he found expensive and embarrassing.Soon after this, we were asked to develop what we call corporate "core competencies" and specific behaviors required by the organization.We discussed our findings with the client. His comm... Similar Editorial : Smiles All Round Then by R Auchterlonie. | Source : Career Advancement
Is Pay Important? - Yes If You Get It Wrong Jane owns a chain of retail stores and good management staff are hard to find. When recruiting she has to negotiate a salary which is attractive to the candidate but fits within her budget. As these decisions are made on a case by case basis she swears each new recruit to secrecy. What'... Similar Editorial : Your Most Important Appointment by Maria Gracia. | Source : Career Advancement
