Selecting Benefits that Support the Lifecycle of Your Employees
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Selerix, a leading provider of benefits administration, healthcare compliance and communications solutions. Check out their latest article on the Forbes Business Council site about personalizing benefits for a four-generation workplace. Enjoy!) Employee benefits are a significant portion of an employee’s […]
5 Ways Employees Can Stay Relevant In Their Career
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes I read an article recently from Lolly Daskal titled “AI Will Replace You: Leaders Who Refuse to Evolve Will Be Left Behind”. It’s a good read worth checking out. Here on HR Bartender, we’ve been talking about artificial intelligence (AI) a lot lately. And I’ve suggested that people should start […]
Employee Performance Conversations: Remember to Follow Up
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes We’ve talked in the past about how to have a performance improvement conversation with an employee. It’s definitely an important conversation. But there’s another performance related conversation that’s equally important – the follow-up meeting afterward. Performance conversations should end with a date and time for follow-up. The purpose of the conversation […]
How to Manage Extra Time Commitments
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes LinkedIn News recently published a survey that said one third of U.S. employees have at least one side hustle. It could be working part time, running a small business, driving for a rideshare app, etc. In the article, they were asking for input on how people make time for a side […]
Understand Employee Feedback Better Using a Johari Window
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes We talk about feedback all the time. Managers give employees feedback. Employees give the company feedback. We talk about the importance of feedback but sometimes I feel that we don’t spend enough time talking about the feedback we can give ourselves. The Johari Window was developed in 1955 by Joseph Luft […]
The Best Way to Conduct a Minimum Wage Audit
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Poster Guard® Poster Compliance Service, the leading labor law poster service that gets your business up to date with all required federal, state, and local labor law postings, and then keeps it that way — for an entire year. […]
Organizations Should Identify Their Artificial Intelligence Goals
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes I recently came across an interesting research paper titled “Technological Disruption in the Labor Market” from the National Bureau of Economic Research based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The paper was prepared for the 2024 Aspen Economic Study Group annual meeting, and it discusses the relationship between technological disruption and the labor […]
How to Create an Evening Routine
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes I recently published an article on how to create a morning routine. It occurred to me afterward that having an evening routine is equally important. How we wind down at the end of the day can impact our sleep and subsequently how we start the next day. Good evening routines lead […]
Expectancy Theory Can Help Explain Employee Motivation
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes I keep seeing these conversations about “employees just don’t want to work anymore” or “employees don’t work hard enough”. I thought we had moved past such comments but obviously we haven’t. So, it might be helpful to use a relatively well-known theory to help explain what might be happening. Expectancy theory (also […]
HR Pros: Here is a Single Site to Monitor Government Changes
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes When there’s a change in the presidency, there are government changes as well. This has been going on for centuries. However, I will admit, there are a lot of changes happening right now. I know I’ve said to myself more than once how it would be wonderful to have one […]