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Employee Conflict Resolution
In a company with a mix of personalities, backgrounds, ages, skills, values, expectations and work styles converging at the office there are bound to be some misunderstandings between employees. If employee relations are a part of your job, you may at times find yourself caught in the middle of feuding employees. As manager or supervisor you will have to be mediator and resolve complaints in a tim... [Read More]
Managing Employee Relations
When we talk about creating a Positive Employee Relations environment, it is because you recognize that the manner in which your employees are treated will ultimately be the key factor that will distinguish your company from other companies and determine your management success. The following outlines the key elements necessary to create and maintain a positive employee relations environment. The ... [Read More]
Diversity in the Workplace
Many companies nowadays are trying to create a diverse workplace of different people from different backgrounds. Not only does diversity add richness to your workforce, but also add new challenges. However, many employers fail to realize that they tend to look into how different a potential employee is from his future workmates?Look for similarities, not differences - No matter what ra... [Read More]
Surviving as a Young Manager
After several years-or even months-of hard work, you are promoted into an executive position. It may feel great at first, becoming a young manager, but you then realize that the work is no walk in the park. For one, you find yourself being envied by other people who have been on the job longer yet have been passed out in the promotion process. How should you cope?Do not be afraid... [Read More]
Recession Planning for Business
News about the United States recession has hit the average Americans, and fears begin to rise about rising prices and higher costs of debt payments. This is why the company should contribute, even in their own little way, to make the impact of recession less of a burden for employees.Study your company's strategic planTake a look on your company's strategic framework, including your mission ... [Read More]
Dealing with a Difficult Coworker
Different kinds of people exist in your workplace, and you more likely do not gel with some of your colleagues. There are different kinds of difficult people whom you may not work well with, from the people who talk constantly yet never listen, those who insist on having the last word, those who fail to keep commitments, perennial critics among others. Some even go to the extent of courting your b... [Read More]
How to Be an Effective Leader
Leadership is a quality rarely found in people, but it is even rarer for someone who can effectively leads his organization. Such leaders display a blend of charisma, vision, and character traits that pull people into following them. Here are the key characteristics of what makes an effective leader.Choosing to lead - Leadership is not a privilege given to a certain job post such as a ... [Read More]
Pitfalls to Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is a process being done by an organization to define its strategy or direction, and at the same time make decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy. The techniques that are used to accomplish this include SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) and PEST analysis (Political, Economical, Social, and Technological).In order to determine where th... [Read More]
Myths About Young Employees
In order to manage younger employees more effectively, it is very important for senior managers to understand them in terms of their general personalities and actions. Certain beliefs that turn out to be myths may have scattered all around different business circles regarding how younger employees should be managed and handled. These myths would have been considered by most managers as true and th... [Read More]
How to Give Orders to Subordinates
Giving orders is part of the job of a manager. But the way they are being given and how they are received spell the difference between a good and a bad manager. Giving orders to subordinates follows a certain quality or skill that managers need to develop if they expect employees to follow up and accomplish them as needed. Here are some tips that can help every manager how to effectively give orde... [Read More]