You’d be hard-pressed to find a small business owner who doesn’t want to staff their enterprise with the best possible applicants. However, despite these lofty aspirations, a staggering number of small businesses place employee
HR fills the cracks of an organization, performing all the small and large tasks that don’t fit anywhere else. When accounting can’t manage it, HR performs payroll; when there isn’t a legal team on-site,
Whether you’re a hiring manager, a trainer, a department head or an entrepreneur, it’s important to stay updated on all the latest trends in learning if you want to get the most out of
A little more than five years ago, a startling study revealed an ugly truth about the state of the American workplace: Only about 20 percent of employees said that they received any company-sponsored skills
In the most basic terms, the job of HR is to recruit and retain good employees. In a competitive business world, it takes a lot of effort to do it right. You want to
When it comes to human resources results, one of the key things that needs to be focused on is employee retention. After all, seeing company knowledge walk out the door, and having to spend
One of the key elements of increasing employee engagement and satisfaction in the workplace is giving staff members the opportunity to grow and develop. People need to be continually learning, and see that they have
While we spend a huge proportion of our weeks at work, reports sadly show time after time that huge numbers of workers across the country aren’t happy in their jobs, and that this dissatisfaction
If you have big goals for your small business this year, it is important to remember that you’re unlikely to hit all (or even many) of them if your team is not up to
Technology has been becoming more and more important in every field of work over the last decade. Business owners, in particular, have been significantly affected by this trend and indeed, many entrepreneurs use software
