Managing Employees and HR Articles

How To Make a Difficult Task a Little Bit Easier

By Christopher Freeburn

There are few tasks less pleasant than firing an employee. There are bound to be hurt feelings and often emotions can run high. As difficult as losing a job is for the soon-to-be-former employee, however, informing him or her of that fact can be profoundly upsetting for the employer as well, particularly in a small business setting. Worse, terminating employment can produce more ...

How outsourcing payroll can save your business time and money

By Chris Freeburn

As an employer, you are probably more than happy to pay your employees well for their work, but handling all the paperwork that comes with each paycheck is probably not something any small business owner anticipates with pleasure. Keeping payroll records in order, keeping track of the correct taxes and dispensing checks or managing direct deposits for your employees is a time consumin...

By Chris Freeburn

Setting your employees' salaries can be a challenging task for first time employers, or even established employers who are recruiting for a newly created position or trying to keep the employees they already have. Salaries that are too low will fail to attract new qualified candidates, and may cause current employees to begin to look to your competitors. Conversely, salaries that are too high will put a strain on the business's budget and may disgruntle other emplo...

Happy employees and satisfied customers are two of the invaluable benefits of an effective incentive and recognition program
By Chris Freeburn

Not long ago, an engineering and manufacturing company on the East Coast underwent the lengthy and complicated process of earning ISO certification. A team of nearly 50 employees from the company worked for more than eighteen months on the difficult project, often staying late and coming in on weekends. Finally, upon the successf...

Can you keep employees motivated and compensated without annual salary increases?
By Reed Richardson

With workers harder to come by, salaries seem destined to keep rising. But one way to offset this expense is to consider opening up more of your employees to performance bonuses rather than simply handing out cost-of-living increases every year.

This trend is increasingly popular across the business spectrum. A Hewitt Associates study from September found th...