Good Commerce Department Resources
Here is a resource and tool treasure trove. While the resources herein are clearly for specific purposes they provide a lot of thought provoking information for Employee Management processes and HR managers.
A – Z HR Policy Library for HR Practitioners
Frequently Requested Policies and HR Manuals:
Human Resources, Training, and Labor Relations Managers and Specialists
Looking for a job or career in Human Resources? Here is some great Employee Management Career information. This is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics under the US Department of Labor. The Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition has some great information including a much faster than average growth for the field.
Here is the complete article [...]
Top 10 HR Mistakes Made by Businesses/SMEs
Good Employee Management checklist for thinking about your HR policies and/or planning. Many of you would be amazed at the lack of planning for HR, even in larger companies. Well, before BP, more would be amazed.
Here is the full article from Nazri at Blogspot:
Top 10 HR Mistakes Made by Businesses/SMEs
Writing and giving performance reviews
Here is a good article from Business Management Daily on giving performance reviews as a part of the Employee Management Process. A good list to work from in developing your Performance Review Procedure.
Writing and giving performance reviews: 8 do’s and don’ts
Employee performance review Template from Microsoft
There are some good business templates on the Microsoft site including this one for Employee Performance Review. Microsoft can be a bit of pain sometimes but these business tools are good to know about for those in Employee Management and other businesses. Here is a link to the referenced template:
Employee Performance Review Template for Excel
Tips for Hiring Your First Employee
Some great second hand advice I heard from a minority business person (currently running for Congress) was to create jobs in a company. Then you could increase your wealth exponentially if successful, rather than just on your own improvement. Sage words and the old Consulting model. Employee Management is not the only way to make [...]
A Guide To Performance Management
This is a great article on the basics of Performance Management.
What is Performance Management?
Why is it important?
Who conducts Performance Management?
What are the processes involved?
The phases of the Performance Management process explained.
Performance Management