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How to Avoid the 1/2 Million Dollar Hiring Mistake
One of the most important things a sales manager can do, recruiting and hiring sales superstars. Get tips on hiring the best people for the job.

Hiring and Retaining Good Employees
Hiring good employees is not only important to business, it’s essential. Employees are the heart and soul of a business; they are the mechanism that makes a business run; they are the breath of life that enables a business to be something more than an idea. A business cannot run unless someone (employees, in this case) is doing the work. Any intelligent business owner should want good employees.

Preventing Workplace Harassment: What You Should Know
By its very definition, workplace harassment is an act or instance of disturbing, pestering or troubling repeatedly. These events are unwelcome in nature and can cause a significant amount of anxiety, especially if the harassment is taking place at work.

Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination
In 2010, more than 100,000 charges were brought against employers who were charged with discrimination. Today, discrimination is not just racial. Employees are reportedly being discriminated against for their gender, disabilities, religion and even in retaliation for a multitude of different reasons. Sometimes, the discrimination can be so subtle, that it goes unnoticed and unreported.

Thirty-Seven Percent of Companies Use Social Networks to Research Potential Job Candidates, According to New CareerBuilder Survey
With the pervasive, worldwide adoption of social media, job seekers know that the all-important first impression is potentially made well before the first interview. But just how many hiring managers browse social media profiles, and what type of information are they hunting?

Job Seeker Advice from Robert Half
Robert Half Professional Employment Report: Business Optimism Continues to Rise, Recruiting Challenges Persist

Coaching for Improved Performance
Looking for a step-by-step coaching approach you can use to help an employee improve his work performance? This approach avoids the need for discipline and produces great results.

Build a Strategy for Sustainability
Adam Werbach, Global CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi S and former Sierra Club president, is the author of Strategy for Sustainability.

Be Strategic With Your Workforce
Dick Beatty, professor of Human Resource Management at Rutgers University, explains how to identify your most important positions -- and get your best people into them.

Pepsi Beverage Pays $3.1 Million in Racial Bias Case
Pepsi Beverages Co. will pay $3.1 million to settle federal charges of race discrimination for using criminal background checks to screen out job applicants – even if they weren't convicted of a crime.

How to Handle Employee Resignations
Face it. Sooner or later, even the best employer has employees resign. They think they've found a better opportunity or their spouse has accepted a job out-of-state. The reasons are endless for an employee resignation.

Whistleblowing Employee Put On Probation - Retaliation?
Was an employee put on probation because he blew the whistle on alleged illegalities, or because of his poor sales record? A federal court sitting in Pennsylvania recently looked at some of the evidence necessary to resolve such a question.

Sensitivity & Diversity Training Tips Published to Address Aftermath of Holiday Parties and Social Media DB Pargman Consulting LLC, a national leading provider of One on One Executive Sensitivity & Diversity Training is pleased announce publication of "5 Tips to Get Your Company Over the post holiday HANGOVER and Get Your People Back to Work!" to help companies face new threats from the mix of social media and company social events.

Overcoming Adversity by Brian Tracy
Let’s make one thing clear at the beginning. Life is a continuous succession of both small and large problems. They never end. No sooner do you get control of one situation when you are hit by another. Life is a process of “two steps forward and one step back.” When you become a great success, you simply exchange one type of problem for another.

Improving Workers Comp Is Hard Work But Worth Effort Say Those Who Have Made It Workers’ compensation benefits can be a lifesaver for injured employees, but providing and managing coverage can be a costly hassle for their employers. According to employers featured in this white paper, workers fare better and companies save.

The Secrets Behind Employee Retention
A company to ground itself successfully in the chosen field of activity should adhere to sound human resource management practices, as it is firmly believed that human resource is an asset and investment in human capital paves way for comprehensive development. Many firms fail, in spite of being resourceful in terms of capital, infrastructure and technology.

What Is A Background Check?
With an increase in negligent hiring, retention, and defamation lawsuits, spiraling recruitment and training costs, and an upsurge in workplace violence and theft, employers feel they need to know as much as possible about every employee.

Diversity: No Longer Just Black and White
Diversity in the workplace used to hinge upon the level of responsibility, pay, and respect that one could receive based upon the color of skin and ethnicity. But, these days, diversity in the workplace has become much more than that.

Hiring the Best: A Checklist for Success In Hiring Employees
This hiring employees checklist helps you keep track of your recruiting efforts. This hiring employees checklist communicates both the recruiting and the hiring process and progress in recruiting to the hiring manager. Your feedback and comments are welcome to improve this checklist for hiring employees.

Healthcare Reform: 10 Changes for Employers
President Barack Obama has signed legislation that makes major changes to the healthcare system in the United States. Some of the changes will affect employers in significant ways, 10 of which are discussed in this article.

Workplace Guidance Remains Elusive After Facebook Posting Case Is Settled
Employees may be rejoicing, but some legal experts are disappointed that the National Labor Relations Board reached a settlement on Feb. 7 with a company that fired an employee for bad mouthing her boss on Facebook, dashing hopes for a legal precedent to guide employers’ social media policies.

Diversity & Harassment: Respecting the Differences(video)
Educate all of your managers and employees about the details surrouding the difficult subject of harassment. Everyone in the workplace can benefit from understanding what qualifies as harassment, and why it cannot be tolerated. These comprehensive programs clarify how to recognize and prevent harassment, and what to do if harassment occurs.

Quick Guide to Avoiding Sexual Harassment Liability
Learn the elements of reasonable care that will greatly reduce the risk of sexual harassment liability.

Build a Social Media Hiring Strategy
Use your online network to lure quality talent.

Dealing with Discrimination and Harassment Complaints
If you have ever had to deal with a discrimination or harassment complaint, you know that it is something that generates anxiety for everyone involved.

Employer’s Guide for Dealing with Workplace Bullying This article provide you with tips and strategies for dealing with workplace bullying.

The Americans with Disabilities Act - Overview
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment, state and local government, public accommodations, commercial facilities, transportation, and telecommunications.

Training Key to Preventing Workplace Violence
You hear the terrible stories. An employee brings a gun to work, goes on a rampage, kills some other employees. You only hear, though, if it's in your locality or if there's a significant number of dead or injured. These stories, unfortunately, are only the top of the iceberg when it comes to the problem of employee violence.

Fighting Workplace Substance Abuse
Substance abuse is a widespread societal problem and, therefore, a problem in many workplaces. But employers leeway to deal with the problem as they see fit is constrained by the privacy rights of employees and federal and state laws.

Measuring the Health of Health Care Staffing
After several years of growth, health care staffing revenue is expected to decline 23 percent in 2009, according to Staffing Industry Analysts. Health care staffing is expected to generate $8.8 billion this year, down from $11.4 billion in 2008.

Worker Confidence Inches Up
There was a slight but growing optimism about the U.S. economy among CEOs and workers during the third quarter of 2009.

Small and Medium-Sized Businesses and the Recession
There is no doubt about it; this has been a difficult year for businesses of all sizes. Employment was already down and anxiety about market volatility was running high when the credit markets collapsed in October 2008.

Employees Feeling Increasing Workplace Stress
A newly launched quarterly look at employee opinions across a set of large global organizations, as the global recession wears on, employees are feeling increasing stress in the workplace that, if left unchecked, could impact business performance.

House OKs Three-Year Extension of E-Verify Program
With action on comprehensive immigration reform pushed off to next year, the House approves a homeland security funding bill that would renew the government-run electronic employment verification system.

Age discrimination Suit Costs Company $220,000
According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (EEOC), an Alaska medical center has agreed to pay $220,000 and other relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit on behalf of five workers laid off and denied rehire because of their age.

Avoiding Pregnancy Discrimination
How should you treat a pregnant employee or job applicant to avoid liability for pregnancy discrimination?

Wal-Mart Class Action Gender Discrimination Case Holds
Wal-Mart is the world's largest retailer and America's single largest employer. It was, therefore, a noteworthy event in June 2004 when a federal judge expanded a lawsuit filed by six California women to a class action.

How to Avoid Race and National Origin Discrimination
Various polls and research continue to show that most white Americans believe there is no longer a problem of race or national origin discrimination in America, while people of color and immigrants are subject to ongoing discrimination.

Diversity VS Affirmative Action
Diversity management is frequently confused with affirmative action and valuing diversity. Opponents of both concepts use the terms interchangeably, often throwing in the word "preferences" as yet another synonym.

10 Best Practices for Employee Surveys
A highly motivated workforce delivers superior products and services, and this in turn leads to greater customer satisfaction and improved sales performance.

Diversity Ignites Effective Work Teams
HR managers are learning that positive synergy is not automatic. Bringing together different backgrounds, perspectives and functions is an arduous process.

Conflict Management Strategy Revealed
Conflict is inevitable. No matter where you work, sooner or later you're going to find yourself in a disagreement with someone. We've all heard of disputes that erupt into expensive and divisive lawsuits.

How Should Opposition To Diversity Initiatives Be Handled?
Whether you are selling the idea of developing and implementing a diversity initiative to executive management or to the entire staff, questions around the purpose of initiating such an endeavor will -- in all likelihood -- arise.

Four Key Diversity Recruitment & Retention Strategies
Most employers find that it is generally easier to recruit people than it is to retain them. Unless organizations create a climate that welcomes and is hospitable to those who are in some way different from the existing group, costly turnovers will continue as new talent leaves.

Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
An Act To prohibit age discrimination in employment.

Cultural Diversity Is An Opportunity!
Cultural diversity within your business is an opportunity and needs to be embraced as one. Just take a look around you. Opportunity abounds because our world is a diverse place.

Violence in the Workplace
Once upon a time, work place killings were extremely rare; in fact, they were practically unheard of

Violence on the Job: Assulted by People they Serve
Healthcare and social-service workers face the threat of violence on the job every day. Read about a NIOSH study that's assessing risks, and review OSHA guidelines for protecting employees.

Is Workplace Violence a Real Threat?
In the latest 2005 Department of Labor Special Survey it reported in 2006, nearly 5% of 348K of the establishments surveyed experienced an incident of workplace violence in the last year. While 1/3 reported a negative impact to employees, only 11% changed their policy after the incident; 9% of those had no program or policy. (Source: US Department of Labor, Survey of Workplace Violence Prevention, 2005)

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