Performance management is a necessary and valuable practice for both administrative and developmental purposes in organizations. However, many employees involved in traditional performance management, whether as raters or ratees, have negative reactions to it.

Vacation planners can make an employer’s vacation request and approval process a lot easier and more efficient. We've put together a free Vacation Planner for 2018 that you can download below.

Compliance is a key element to the success of any business. The stack of forms to fill out and continual upcoming deadlines can be overwhelming. We've created the 2018 HR Compliance Timeline to help you stay on top of it. 

Often HR processes become stagnant and untouched due to the “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it” mindset. Sometimes that works out perfectly fine, and well, sometimes it doesn’t. Dust off the old untouched processes and implement something new and refreshing. Your new hires and current employees will appreciate it.

It seems appropriate that this article about inclement weather policies is being published on the first official day of winter. Of course, this being Northeast Ohio and all, we’ve already been hit with a pretty decent icy blast that looked and felt suspiciously like “winter”.

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Utilizing social media to recruit candidates is at an all-time high. LinkedIn and Facebook have forged a new bridge linking job applicants directly to recruiters and the companies they are looking to join. It is crucial for HR departments to look at what they are doing to adapt to the transforming job seeker market.

In this free webinar, we'll take a deeper dive into the key fundamentals of FMLA as well as define what qualifies as an FMLA serious health condition.

Performance management has grown significantly from the traditional annual performance review model that many organizations adopted at one point in time. Performance management is no longer a one-track mindset. In order to practice performance management well, you need to have a strategy in place and a method behind the madness.

Lean principles and methods have become so closely tied to Six Sigma tools, knowing which is which can often be confusing. Compressing the two approaches into the moniker, Lean Six Sigma, is common.