Posts Tagged: management best practices
E-mail: Gossiping and Wasting Time at Work
Waaaay back in 2007 (remember those halcyon days, pre-recession?) a survey by the company MessageGate, Inc. found that employees considered e-mail systems the most important “corporate workflow tool.” Still, it also was a tool that helped employees “exercise poor judgment in its use,” and increased costs as well as business and legal risks. We can Read more »
Perk Power
On-the-job perks can be very powerful when it comes to recruiting and even retaining employees. Let us count the ways: 1) When employees feel they are being “taken care of by their employers” (more on this in a moment) the more likely they are to recommend your company to their friends, neighbors and former colleagues. Read more »
Developing Business Ethics in Your Employees
As the country reels from several business scandals of the past few years, the idea of training employees in business ethics is gaining traction. The idea is to help staffers and managers examine their own ethics and come up with approaches for handling the occasional “sticky wicket” on the job. Yet to really get your Read more »
Employee Work Perception Predicts Company Success
In today’s culture, it seems, our work life — if we’re fortunate to even have a job — is our life. It’s as if we eat, sleep and otherwise do the day-to-day activities of living just so we can go to work. That said, it naturally follows that what we think about our work and Read more »