Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Business: Human Resources

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Business: Human Resources

Labor Management Software is Important For Aquatics Centers and Pools

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 02:28 PM PDT

Any aquatics center manager will tell you that lifeguard, cash handling, and lesson staff scheduling is a headache. Multiple shifts, part-time employees (each with their own set of scheduling requests), in-service trainings and staff meetings, varying skill sets or certification requirements, tightly defined lesson schedule, and a higher-than-average number of employees who are minors (requiring careful adherence to labor laws) - not to mention fielding endless inquiries about next week's schedule (or worse, scrambling to fill a missed shift due to confusion over schedules) - make aquatics centers and pools one of the most complicated industries for shift scheduling and attendance monitoring.

Is Your Team Healthy Or Dysfunctional?

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 11:44 AM PDT

The performance and happiness potential of a healthy team is limitless. Even when a task appears impossible to complete, a healthy team will collaboratively and enthusiastically complete the task above expectations. A dysfunctional team will not.

Is Quality Ever Cheap? The Danger of Trying to Get Deals on Employee Labor During a Recession

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 11:11 AM PDT

This article focuses on the danger of trying to find cheap labor due to the current economic social conditions. It explores the various reasons that doing so could be more of a detriment than a benefit to a company in the long run. It also dispels some of the myths related to some staffing agencies in relation to their rates and services.

Retaining Employees

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 07:41 AM PDT

It is considered expensive to employ a new employee and raise the employee to the level of the previous employee. When an employee leaves a company this means that the company has to incur un-budgeted expenses because of the missing headcount.