Responsible Leadership in Tough Times
Small Business Survival Guide
Your Company
Your Employees
The Law
Employee Survival Guide
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Affirmative Action I
Why they're good. Why they're bad.
Affirmative Action II
Preparing yours.
Affirmative Action III: The Forms
Americans With Disabilities Act
It's helping a lot of people but not those it was created for. Here's
how it works.
Are
You a Good Manager
A quiz to find out
Are You Looking for a
Manager or a Leader?
Is There a Difference?
Auditing
the HR Department
How do you measure HR performance?
Automating
the HR Department
Employees love it and it lowers the costs.
Bad
Management
Is It Better Than No Management At All?
Benchmarking
Benchmark your benchmarking!
Changing
Face of the Personnel Department. Part 1
Stories From the Front Line.
Changing
Face of the Personnel Department. Part 2
This is not your father's personnel department.
Changing
Face of the Personnel Department. Part 3
Why we hate HR.
Changing Face of
the Personnel Department. Part 4
Can we re-invent HR?
College
vs. Blue Collar
Is College always better than career training? Let's make some comparisons.
Company Bibles: Should You Have An Employee policy Handbook?
What is an employee handbook, should I have one, how do I
create one, what should (and shouldn't) be in it?
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.
Deducting
Money From Pay
When you can, when you should and how.
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.
Employment
At Will
Does it still work?
Employment Potpourri
New employment regulations you probably have not seen.
Ethics
in Business
Should your
company have a code of ethics?
Exit Interviews:
Where Did We Go Wrong
Your last chance to talk to the employee you chose to work with.
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?
Gainsharing. When Workers Become Partners.
Showing your employees how doing a good job for you is doing
a good job for them.
Generation
Gap(s)
When people with different values need to work together.
Golden Rule
Following Good Advice is good advice.
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!
How HR
Becomes A Strategic Partner
Ready to Be Part of the Solution or Outsourced?
How Many Generations at your Job?
There is more than one set of values your employees seek. What are they?
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!
Keep
Those Personnel Files
How long should you keep your HR files?
Leadership
Is It All About Emotions?
Light
Duty and Return to Work
The Myths and the Realities.
Looking for
Violence in the Workplace
Are you proactively protecting your workplace?
Meals and Rest Breaks
What's required in your state.
Minimum
Wage
One minimum wage for the whole country right? Not anymore! Yours
can be much less or much more!
Motivation
Part 1
Can you motivate anyone to do anything?
Motivation
Part 2
Let's look at the basics.
The
Mystery of the New COBRA Regulations
You've GOT to do it. But, do what?
Myths of the Older Worker
Lots of surprises! After you read this you'll know that you'll
soon be hiring older, much older, workers.
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?
Overtime
It's not just about who gets it.
Paying
Hourly Workers A Weekly Salary
A seldom used regulation that can be to everyone's advantage.
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?
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 II
Additional Information and clues for the advanced people manager.
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
Position Descriptions. Part I: Setting Up Your Program.
Do I need PDs? I know they're useful, but are they worth
it? How do I set up a company PD system?
Position Descriptions. Part II: Writing the Position Description.
How do I conduct the PD interview? What do I need to know?
Where can I get a PD questionnaire?
Principles
for Managing
A Message From a Winner
Procrastination:
It's Our greatest Labor Saving Device
It's our #1 labor saving device, but it's expensive.
Productivity
That's what you're in Business for.
Recruiting I
The Basics
Recruiting II
The Internet and beyond.
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?
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
Small
Business Survival Guide for Tough Times Part I
Your Company
Stress Part I
The Conscious Level
Stress Part II
The Subconscious Level
Supervisors
Survey
Report from Owners and HR Professionals
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
Tips
for Supervisors
Recommendations And Notes From The Pros
Trends
Coming Changes That Will Affect Your Workforce
Trends
II
More Coming Changes That Will Affect Your Workforce
Turnover, Your Most Expensive Problem?
What causes employee turnover, how can I improve on mine?
Turnover and Retention
Now that you have grown those roses don't let someone else pick them.
Unscheduled Absenteeism: All the Scary
Predictions are Coming True.
How bad is it? What are the reasons? What can you do?
Violence
In The Workplace I
Negligent Hiring or Retention of potentially violent employees is
now covered by law. What the law says and how to handle violent
incident.
Violence
In The Workplace II
Negligent Hiring or Retention of potentially violent employees
is now covered by law. What the law says and how to handle violent
incident.
What To Do When The Union Comes Calling
Whether you're union or not, these are your dos and don'ts.
Not knowing is dangerous.
When
Johnny Comes Marching Home Again - USERRA
He'll Be Wanting His Old Job Back.
Who Gets Paid Overtime In Your Company?
Understanding the Federal Labor Standards
Act (FLSA)
What does exempt mean anyway? How to determine who is or
isn't exempt. A test to determine who is which.
Workers'
Compensation
It's Got a Language of Its Own.
Workers Compensation: Friend or Foe?
What it is, how it works and how to save money on Workers'
Comp.
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.
World of Work
Advance summary of a soon-to-be published book. A 100-year history
of the American workforce 1920-2020.
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