Thursday, July 2, 2009

Business: Human Resources

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Business: Human Resources

Top Tips For HR Professionals

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 02:39 PM PDT

One of the main tasks for a HR Professional in any business is the development and update of business documentation, including policies and guidelines used for new staff and existing staff. There should be continual review of these policies, potentially with help and guidance from other departments, for example when developing the 'IT Use' policy.

Executive Search Consultants Have Many Modern Tools

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 02:32 PM PDT

Finding excellent candidates for high level jobs used to mean a great deal of legwork for executive search consultants. Modern tools have made gathering possible interviewees easier as well as more effective.

Recruiting Engineers in This Recession

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 11:51 AM PDT

A writeup about the current recruitment scenario especially for engineers. What should we those people do who are in a job but not satisfied with the lack of growth due to recession? What does the future hold? why is it important to regularly hire fresh manpower?

Paperless Employee Onboarding With Electronic Forms

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 09:59 AM PDT

The trend to go paperless and automate onboarding processes, making these new hire forms electronic, is catching on. The cost of continuing to maintain an onboarding process via paper is simply too high to not automate.

Monkeys For Hire

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 08:12 AM PDT

Not too long ago, I was involved in a place where I worked in Human Resources. It was a lot different than I thought (since the word "human" wasn't used much). In short, I told the lady she wants to hire a monkey to do this job, not me. Now if you know me, you would know that it would've had to have been a pretty bad work environment to say that to someone in an office setting.

Global Human Capital - Understanding Cultural Dynamics and Cross-Cultural Communication

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 08:26 AM PDT

We each belong to an entire collection of cultures, which includes, national cultures, subcultures (based on regions, tribes etc), organizational or corporate cultures, industry cultures, professional or functional cultures. For that reason, culture can be defined as a shared system of values, beliefs, and attitudes. It affects our own actions and the way we distinguish the actions of others. Culture is not a product of a single individual's personality, nor does it usually change significantly from one generation to the next.

Global Human Capital - Understanding Dynamics of Equity Incentives

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 08:16 AM PDT

Equity compensation is a noncash compensation that represents an ownership interest in the company. In the global environment, organizations are increasingly making stocks offered to most or all employees and no longer limiting it to top managers and executives.