- by Cassandra Carver
Are you a nonprofit professional looking to boost productivity within your workplace? Are you a growing organization seeking efficient tools to bring your team to the next level? If you’re looking for a new time-saving strategy, perhaps internal time tracking is the answer you’ve been looking for.
- by Cassandra Carver
There are many reasons for absences from work. When they’re planned, it can be something to look forward to. However, unscheduled absences from work can be detrimental to the work environment.
- by Cassandra Carver
Annual employee performance appraisals can be an arduous task when considering employee attitude and the clarity of communication between the employer & the employee. In this edition of Astronology®, we consider the topic of performance appraisals.
- by Cassandra Carver
In an attempt to conserve funds and to enable human resources professionals to focus on more critical & strategic concerns, many organizations have considered outsourcing their time-consuming HR functions. In this Astronology® we briefly discuss some options for HR outsourcing.
- by Cassandra Carver
Harvey, Irma, Sandy, & Katrina. All four names have been associated with hurricanes that have hit various areas of the United States in recent years. Other natural disasters, such as fire season in California, tornadoes in the Midwest, and the recent volcano eruptions in Hawaii and Guatemala, remind us that emergency preparedness is another area all organizations should have established.
- by Cassandra Carver
With increasing interest in the issue of gender-based pay gaps, legislation continues to make small movements to meet the challenge of eliminating pay inequity. One such movement has been recent legislation in a number of jurisdictions that bans asking job applicants / new hires about their salary histories.
- by Cassandra Carver
In our previous Astronology®, we discussed how to increase organizational success by combining gainsharing and the “Balanced Scorecard” strategic performance method. At the end of the article, two questions remained for exploration.
- by Cassandra Carver
Last week’s Astronology® explored the idea of negotiations from an economic perspective. Are there other factors to consider when attempting to negotiate effectively? Of course!
- by Cassandra Carver
Although the economy appears to be unsettled with unemployment moving towards the 6% mark, there is an increasing reliance on temporary employees to meet production and service needs. In 2000, staffing companies on an average day employed over 2.5 million temporary workers.
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