- by Cassandra Carver
Today, our workforce is more complex than ever, spanning multiple generations and demographics. The world’s current workforce includes a mix of “Baby Boomers” (currently ages 57-75), “Gen X” (currently ages 41-56), “Millennials” (currently ages 25 – 40), and “Gen Z” (currently ages 9 – 24).
- by Cassandra Carver
During the rampant growth of the Industrial Age, the modern organization chart gave employers structure in a time where real-time communication and collaboration weren’t possible. The organization chart also helped employers to develop a hierarchy, allowing for goals to be properly measured and maintained.
- 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
Your association has a lot to do, no doubt about it. Between recruiting new members, hosting events, making sure your current members are happy, and providing other valuable resources to your community, your whole team is busy!
- by Cassandra Carver
In today’s job market it is critical to know how much to pay employees while staying competitive with industry and geographic peers. Over-compensation, as well as under-compensation, are two costly problems that many employers will eventually face. One solution for ensuring that organizations make the right compensation choices is utilizing a published salary survey.
- 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
Overtime can carry an organization through treacherous times, or hasten its descent into the red. The difference is a matter of strategy.
- 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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