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Customized hiring packages. Talent acquisition systems. Complete solutions. They’re all ways of talking about the newest trend in HR—a customized, many-faceted plan designed to transform, streamline, and boost the quality of your hiring.
Do your employees feel secure in their jobs? It’s difficult for managers and supervisors to know for sure. In these tough economic times—especially if your company has recently experienced layoffs – it’s not uncommon for even the best employees to feel insecure and anxious about keeping their jobs.
Much emphasis is put on academic readiness when students are applying for college. Schools use a variety of factors in the admissions process, including entrance exams, essays, interviews, GPA, references and more. But how do schools determine whether or not students are prepared for the financial responsibilities their education may place on them and their families?
“Would I ever leave this company? Look, I’m all about loyalty. In fact, I feel like part of what I’m being paid for here is my loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, I’m going wherever they value loyalty the most.”– Dwight Schrute, The Office (2008)
It’s a fact that the Internet has streamlined a myriad of HR tasks, increased productivity, and in general, made HR offices more efficient.
These days, it doesn’t matter if you’re hiring, training new employees, re-training existing employees, or a combination of the above; it’s all about one thing: ROI.
You know the old saying: Change is the only constant. In other words, even in the most stable of situations, change is going to happen. That’s a given. What’s not a given is a person’s ability to deal with and adapt to that change.
For managers, supervisors, and HR execs in many corporate workplaces, the demands of simply doing the job oftentimes get in the way of the details. One of those details is employee performance feedback.
CACM Vol. 47:3, March 2004 ©2004 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Reprinted by permission. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/971617.971622
Training is an important key to success! This is the conclusion of recent study by a professor of business administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
