Human Resources: Hiring, Firing, & Training

This article explores the role of trust in workplace hierarchies. How to initiate, repair and, maintain new and existing relationships and why it matters for current and prospective leaders.

Should training investment be spread over all employees or focused on talented employees alone?

Things to consider to reduce turnover in your company's tech talent.

Here are 25 affordable rewards and incentives to motivate employees on a low budget. You want to motivate employees for their effort, hard work, and long-term dedication. Employee rewards programs are quickly becoming more popular.

Trouble at work? How to respond to allegations of misbehavior in the workplace. Use these tips in dealing with an HR investigator if you are accused of rules violations on the job.

It's performance review time, and the boss has some less-than-glowing feedback about your work. Here's how to deal with negative or unfair job feedback like a real cowboy. Tips from an HR ranch hand.

This article will provide you with some tips for making meetings more effective.

This article covers how to develop learning objectives for your training presentation. This skill is critical because the learning objectives serve as the driver for all your subsequent training activities.

I've been an employer who has had to pay unemployment benefits, and I have been a worker who collected them. This is what I learned from being on both situations at different times.

A majority of workers experience chronic stress. If you are considering taking a "stress leave" from your job, learn what you need to know before you request a medical leave of absence for anxiety, depression, or another mental health condition.

Workers' Compensation can be a complex system. Here are a handful of cases to show how weird it can be, from record-breaking settlements to bizarre accidents covered by work comp.

A list of the information you will need to keep for when your state unemployment office asks for verification of your job searches, and examples of job search forms.

You've submitted your resignation, and now Human Resources requests an exit interview. Here's why you should say no and suggestions for how to decline. Don't get trapped in this no win situation.

Here is a typical Bread Line or Unemployment Line back in the 1930s, but we're having them today as well. Dishonesty, evasion, or lack of integrity on the job can be the culprit, as well as lack of training and misunderstandings. It is important to be honest, straightforward, and forthcoming on the job with your management...

Tips from an HR professional about how the employee complaint investigation process works. What you need to know if you're being investigated or if you are filing a complaint of your own.

Post-Millennials or Generation Z (kids born in 2000 and later) are entering the workforce. Their world bears little resemblance to what came before. What should we expect from these young employees?