Job Titles Can Affect Productivity A couple of weeks ago, we blogged about the psychological value of job titles with respect to the importance of establishing proper supervisory roles in the chain of command. There is some good info in there. If you missed it make...
What Do You Think? – Are Credit Unions Federal Contractors?
Know Your Affirmative Action Obligations Under Executive Order 11246 This one is for the sake of all of our credit union readers out there, and of course anyone wishing to further their knowledge of the subject of federal compliance. Read this one thoroughly. It could...
Answer This Employment Law Question – Integrity HR Blog Q&A
Employment Law Q&A Ok, we're going to try something a little bit different today. The Integrity HR Human Resources Blog has gained quite a following lately, so we'd like to have a little fun with our readers today. As Certified HR Consultants we have to stay on...
What’s in a Job Title? – The Psychology Behind Proper Job Titles
The Importance of Job Titles: "What was your last position called?" "Was that an appropriate title?” These questions are among the many that the hiring managers at Zappos.com, a wildly successful online shoe company, ask of their job candidates. Why in the world do...
Are Your Employees Planning? – 5 Coaching Steps to Provide Direction
Planning = Productivity In the HR field where we have an emphasis on the people in our organizations it is often necessary to interact with your company's' management and employees to act as a productivity coach in order to lead them down the right path towards their...
But I’m Salaried – Dealing With the Top 5 Salary Employment Law Myths
Our last blog posting dealt with the Top 5 Salary Employment Law Myths and gave a bit of insight about each. While some of you probably know that these myths are, in fact, just myths, even an occasional seasoned business professional is guilty of believing a few of...
Performance Management System – Upgrade Your People With Technology
In our last blog post titled Managing Performance of Those Who Won't Manage Performance we cited a few (well seven actually) reasons why managers cringe at the idea of performance reviews. I'm sure many of you can identify with those reasons, but as some of our...
Managing Performance Management That Won’t Manage Performance
Our Beating Bad Bosses Blog Series was our most highly read and popular blog posts to date, so to stay true to that tune, here is some more of that bad bosses beef. Performance Management is Worthless?! I recently had a client that stated that he hated filling out...
Hey, You Break It You Buy It – Is This A Culture of Accountability?
As HR professionals implementing performance management plans we find ourselves preaching all the time about establishing a culture of accountability. Employees must be held accountable to their goals and responsible for their actions. Sometimes, however, even well...
Human Resources Gone Green! – How HR Can Save Money & the Environment
How Can HR Help a Company Go Green? IntegrityHR has recently implemented many "green" business practices. This got me wondering what others were doing. I was talking to a group of fellow HR professionals over coffee the other day and the topic of "going green" came...
Handling Employee Relations Issues – Some Special Considerations
This blog posting is the final post in the employee relations issues series. Here are the first two posts if you missed them. Handling Employee Relations Issues - Part 1 Handling Employee Relations Issues - Part 2 Some Special Considerations When Handling Employee...
You Say I’ve Got a Bad Attitude? | Handling Employee Relations Issues
you got yourself a load of trouble now you got yourself a bad deal you say i've got a bad attitude howd 'you think i feel song lyrics from Bad Attitude, Deep Purple Our last blog post discussed some of the difficult employee relations issues that you may face in...