Personnel Notebook
HR Management
Auditing the HR Department
How Well is Your HR Department doing?
Automating the HR Department
Employees love it and it lowers the costs.
Changing Face of the Personnel Department, Part I
Stories From the Front Line.
Changing Face of the Personnel Department, Part II
This is not your father's personnel department.
Changing Face of the Personnel Department, Part III
Why We Hate HR.
Changing Face of the Personnel Department, Part IV
Can We Re-invent HR?
Creating the Human Resource Department: Where Do We Start Doing What?
Small Company About to Grow? New Company Startup? How to Properly Create Your New Human Resources (HR) Department.
The Disciplinary Process Is Not About Discipline
It's About Getting the Performance You Need
Drugs in the Workplace: What's Fair, What's Legal, What Works
What Does the Law Say About Drugs in the Workplace? Can I, or Should I Test For Drugs? What Kinds of Testing Should I Use?
Emergencies at Work
How to handle the unexpected
Employee Surveys
Your employees have a lot to say. Let them communicate with you.
Exit Interview: Where Did We Go Wrong?
Your last chance to talk to the employee you chose to work with.
Gainsharing: When Workers Become Partners
Showing your employees how doing a good job for you is doing a good job for them.
How HR Becomes A Strategic Partner
Ready to Be Part of the Solution or Outsourced?
How to Keep Your Job, Get Along With Your Boss, and Stop Being Miserable at Work
You're In Charge
HR for Companies with No HR Department
Immigration
Why We Have It, Why We Need It, What We’re Doing About It
Interviewing Candidates for Employment
Inverse Promotions
Remember "the Peter principle"?
Keep Those Personnel Files
How long should you keep your HR files?
Looking for Violence in the Workplace
Are you proactively protecting your workplace?
Measuring HR Performance
It's all about the metrics.
Mythbusters For Pay
Will Pay Keep Your Employees or Help Your Bottom Line
Nine Skills of Top HR Professionals
People Dynamics: Managing The Differences In People May Be the Ultimate Skill
What is your management style? What are its strengths and weaknesses? What is the management style of your boss, your staff, your spouse? This stuff is not only valuable, it's fun!
People Dynamics, Part II
Additional Information and clues for the advanced people manager.
Performance Appraisals, Part I: The Annual Classic
What is an employee performance appraisal? How do I do them, what am I appraising? Where can I get the forms?
Performance Appraisals, Part II: The New Wave
What are these new and custom designed performance appraisal systems?
Performance Evaluation: The 10 Most Common Mistakes
An essential tool often misused.
Performance Evaluation Part II: The Biggest Mistake
What to evaluate and how.
Performance
Evaluation Part III: Understanding and Being Understood
What to assess and how to say it.
Performance
Evaluation Part IV: More Understanding and Being Understood
The language of an evaluation.
Performance
Evaluation Part V: Understanding More and Being Understood More
The language of an evaluation
continues.
Performance
Evaluation Part VI: Understanding More and Being Understood More
What to evaluate
in your job.
Performance
Evaluation Part VII: More Evaluating By Job Title
Evaluating jobs,
not just job functions.
Performance
Evaluation Part VIII: More Job Title Evaluations
Evaluating jobs,
not just job functions.(Continued)
Performance
Evaluation Part IX: More Job Title Evaluations
Evaluating by job
continued.
Performance
Evaluation Part X: Review
Summarizing the
Performance Evaluation Series.
Personnel Files, Who
Gets to See Them
What the law says.
Personnel Files, Who
Gets to See Them: Part II
The rest of the states.
Policies,
Practices and Personal Opinions
Part I: Workforce Surveys of HR Professionals
Policies, Practices and
Personal Opinions II
Part II: The Opinions
Social Networking
And The New Rules
Telecommuting
Is it for everybody? Is it for anybody?
Telecommuting, Part II
The legal issues
Telecommuting, Part III
Observations and feedback
Telecommuting, Part IV
Policies, Agreements and Checklist
Terminating Employment: Part I.
It's a Two-Stage Process
Taking these initial steps can save you a ton of grief.
Terminating Employment: Part II.
If You're Going To Do It, Do It Right!
The steps to take, the final meeting, the documents.
Turnover
and Retention
Now that you have grown those roses don't let someone else pick them. (MHR)
Unscheduled
Absenteeism: All the Scary Predictions are Coming True.
How bad is it? What are the reasons? What can you do?
Workforce
Planning Part I
Start planning your workforce and skill needs before you run out!
Workforce
Planning Part II
If you know what the future holds, you can be better prepared to
deal with it.
Management
Are
You a Good Manager
A Quiz to Find Out
Are You Looking for a
Manager or a Leader?
Is There a Difference?
Bad Management
Is It Better Than No Management At All?
The Disciplinary Process Is Not About Discipline
It's About Getting the Performance You Need
Exit Interview: Where Did We Go Wrong?
Your last chance to talk to the employee you chose to work with.
Gainsharing: When Workers Become Partners
Showing your employees how doing a good job for you is doing a good job for them.
Golden
Rule
Following Good Advice is good advice.
How to Keep Your Job, Get Along With Your Boss, and Stop Being Miserable at Work
You're In Charge
Immigration
Why We Have It, Why We Need It, What We’re Doing About It
Improving
Productivity
Defining and Improving It.
Interviewing Candidates for Employment
Inverse Promotions
Remember "the Peter principle"?
Is Management A Profession?
... or just a promotion?
Manager's Notebook
Managing people is a tough job
Motivation Part 1
Can you motivate anyone to do anything?
Motivation Part 2
Let's look at the basics.
Mythbusters For
Managers
How do you spell success?
People Dynamics, Part II
Additional Information and clues for the advanced people manager.
Principles for Managing
A Message From a Winner
Procrastination
It may be our most labor-saving device.
Skills of Top
Managers
As Determined By Harvard Business School
Skills of Top
Managers II
What It
Takes To Be The Best
Skills of Top
Managers III
Item Number 10 in Harvard's Top 13
Skills of Top
Managers IV
Item Number 11: Becoming a Leader
Skills of Top
Managers V
Item Number 12: Strategy
Skills of Top
Managers VI
Item Number 13
Skills of Top
Managers VII
The Master Budget
Skills of Top
Managers VIII
Understanding the Financial Statement
Skills of Top
Managers IX
Reading the Income Statement and the Cash Flow Statement.
Skills of Top
Managers X
Summing up the Skills of Managers
Social Networking
And The New Rules
Telecommuting
Is it for everybody? Is it for anybody?
Telecommuting, Part II
The legal issues
Telecommuting, Part III
Observations and feedback
Telecommuting, Part IV
Policies, Agreements and Checklist
Terminating Employment: Part I.
It's a Two-Stage Process
Taking these initial steps can save you a ton of grief.
Terminating Employment: Part II.
If You're Going To Do It, Do It Right!
The steps to take, the final meeting, the documents.
Timeless Advice from
Drucker Part I
If you're taking advice, why not take it from the best?
Timeless Advice from
Drucker Part II
More Tips from the Master Manager
Timeless Advice from
Drucker Part III
Advice
from the Master Advisor
Turnover
and Retention
Now that you have grown those roses don't let someone else pick them. (MHR)
Tips for Supervisors
Recommendations And Notes From The Pros
Leadership
Are You Looking for a
Manager or a Leader?
Is There a Difference?
Leadership
Is It All About Emotions?
Responsible Leadership in Tough Times
On The Job
Dealing with Drugs at Work
A supervisor's guide
Does Anyone Want To Be Led By You?
Are you ready to lead?
Do We Need Rules For Rudeness?
Maybe it's time.
Drugs in the Workplace: What's Fair, What's Legal, What Works
What Does the Law Say About Drugs in the Workplace? Can I, or Should I Test For Drugs? What Kinds of Testing Should I Use?
Emergencies at Work
How to handle the unexpected
Hazard
Communication Standard.
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You.
It's a lot of paperwork, but you must inform your employees of these hazards.
Light
Duty and Return to Work
The Myths and the Realities.
Looking for Violence in the Workplace
Are you proactively protecting your workplace?
Mythbusters
About Work
Does what you pay do what you think it
does?
Mythbusters About Workers
Some Inside Truths About Your Workers
Stress on the Job, Part I
It's costly for everyone.
Stress on the Job, Part II
Relaxation Techniques
Telecommuting
Is it for everybody? Is it for anybody?
Telecommuting, Part II
The legal issues
Telecommuting, Part III
Observations and feedback
Telecommuting, Part IV
Policies, Agreements and Checklist
Unscheduled
Absenteeism: All the Scary Predictions are Coming True.
How bad is it? What are the reasons? What can you do?
Career
College vs. Blue Collar
Is
College always better than career training? Let's make some comparisons.
Inverse Promotions
Remember "the Peter principle"?
Regulations
COBRA
What, Who, Why, When, and How
Fair Pay Rules
Changes In The Overtime Regulation.
Fair
Pay Rules II
Final changes updated
Family and
Medical Leave Act. Part I: The
Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Do I have to provide this benefit to my employees? What problems
am I facing under FMLA? Where can I get all those forms?
Family and
Medical Leave Act. Part II: Making
It Work
Okay, now I understand the pitfalls, how can I live up to and live
with this law?
Hazard
Communication Standard.
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You.
It's a lot of paperwork, but you must inform your employees of these hazards.
HIPPA:
Keeping Health Information Private
Medical information is a secret, and that's the law!
Immigration
Why We Have It, Why We Need It, What We’re Doing About It
Independent Contractor or Employee? Who's In Charge Here?
How can you tell who is an employee and who is not? You need to
do this before Uncle Sam makes that decision for you!
Fair Pay Rules
Changes In The Overtime Regulation.
Paying Hourly
Workers A Weekly Salary
A seldom used regulation
that can be to everyone's advantage.
Sexual
Harrassment:
Looking
For Love In All The Wrong Places
What is and is not sexual harassment? What do I do when a complaint
comes to me? How do I investigate a charge?
Social Networking
And The New Rules
Top Five Employment Regulation Mistakes Made By Small Companies
Uncle Sam Wants You
To Help Our Veterans Keep Their Jobs and Benefits
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
He'll Be Wanting His Old Job Back
Workers'
Compensation
It's Got a Language of Its Own.
Worker's Compensation: Friend or Foe?
Business and Miscellaneous
Benchmarking
Benchmark your benchmarking!
Ethics in Business
Should Your Company Have A Code of Ethics?
Mythbusters
About Work
Does what you pay do what you think it
does?
Mythbusters About Workers
Some Inside Truths About Your Workers
Mythbusters For
Managers
How do you spell success?
Mythbusters For Pay
Will Pay Keep Your Employees or Help Your Bottom Line
Small Business Survival Guide
Top Five Employment Regulation Mistakes Made By Small Companies
World of Work
Advance summary of a soon-to-be published book. A 100-year history
of the American workforce 1920-2020.
HR & Related Forms
|
Subject |
Form Title |
| FMLA | Application for FMLA |
| FMLA | Medical Certification Forms |
| FMLA | Employer Response |
| FMLA | Intent to Return |
| FMLA | Petition against FMLA escalation |
| Position Descriptions | Position Description Questionnaire |
| Position Descriptions | Job Description Format |
| Sexual Harrassment | Policy Statement |
| Termination | Exit Interview |
| Performance Appraisal | Performance Appraisal Form: Exempt |
| Performance Appraisal | Performace Appraisal Form: Non-Exempt |
| Recruiting |
Recruiting Tips Adobe Acrobat | Word for Windows | Text |
| General | Employee Application |
| General | Pre-Employment Reference Check |
| General | Employee Reference Check |
| General | Employee Time Sheet |
| General | Vacation Request |
| General | Authorization to Release Information |
| General | Employee Attendance Record |
| General | Confidentiality Agreement |
| General | Department of Transportation (DOT) compliant Employment Application |
| General | Permission to Drive Company Vehicle |
| General | Payroll Deductions for Items Entrusted to Employees |
| General |
Employee Non-Compete Agreement |
| General | Employee Non-Solicitation Agreement |
| COBRA | COBRA Model General Notice |
| COBRA | COBRA Model Election Notice |
| Military | Your Rights Under USERRA Poster |
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