Employee Management
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It’s easy--perhaps too easy--to write off the employee goals you set at the beginning of the year and not enforce ...
It’s easy--perhaps too easy--to write off the employee goals you set at the beginning of the year and not enforce ...
’t Kill Your 401(k)
Is the recession making it difficult to fork over your company’s 401(k) contribution to your employees? If so, ...
Is the recession making it difficult to fork over your company’s 401(k) contribution to your employees? If so, ...
Should You Hire Workers From Big Companies?
A few years ago, Affinergy was considering two applicants with extensive work experience at large companies. The Durham, N.C., ...
A few years ago, Affinergy was considering two applicants with extensive work experience at large companies. The Durham, N.C., ...
Free Lunches do Exist
When people ask me what my favorite thing about my job is, I don't hesitate to answer: the free lunches. Yes, I completely ...
When people ask me what my favorite thing about my job is, I don't hesitate to answer: the free lunches. Yes, I completely ...
All Employee Management Articles
Entrepreneur.com - I don't think a day goes by when I don't speak with a salesperson who is completely lost, panicked by his uncertainty as to what to do next. This applies to all sorts of ...
• Look Before You Leap at Change
Entrepreneur.com - Change is hard to deal with. Just thinking of the word can conjure visceral reactions and the expectation of difficulties, resistance, anger, betrayal, shock and misfortune. ...
• Weeding the Employee Garden
Entrepreneur.com - Hiring people who complement my company’s corporate culture has helped us push our employee satisfaction numbers to a five-year high and earned us the highest client ...
• Protect Yourself From Overtime Violations
Entrepreneur.com - Employers inadvertently violate federal and state wage and hour laws frequently. The rules governing how companies must compensate employees can perplex even the savviest manager, ...
• Learn How to Delegate Better
Entrepreneur.com - It's the end of the month and your business is crying out for attention. You have invoices to send, sales calls to make, a blog to update, and you haven't had time to ...
• Training: Your Secret Weapon
Entrepreneur.com - We're among friends, so let's be frank, shall we? Training is one of those boring, tedious necessities that we businesspeople must politely endure--while examining our ...
• 5 Ways to Spur Employee Creativity
Entrepreneur.com - It's essential to keep your employees involved in the creative process. Here are a few ways to do it. Engage employees from all departments in brainstorming sessions. ...
• What Else Besides Termination?
Entrepreneur.com - Every day, you read in the papers that the U.S. recession is deepening with repercussions felt throughout the world. Large and small organizations are affected. Old, ...
• 14 Things Smart Leaders are Doing Right Now
Entrepreneur.com - When the going gets tough, the tough get going. After all, it's easy to excel at leadership when all is right with the world. The real test occurs when times get rough, the ...
• Building Up Teams--and Communities
Entrepreneur.com - Lain Hensley has always had a passion for helping those in need. In 2001, he saw the opportunity to do just that when he was hired by Lucent Technologies' supply chain team to ...
• Why I Finally Quit
Entrepreneur.com - Why did a bright, 28-year-old employee with a degree from a top university and a ton of high-level computer experience bail on the company he really believed in? Employee X ...
• From Storeroom to Store Shelves
Entrepreneur.com - Neil Reilly, 46, a former commodities trader, used to walk the streets of Manhattan after the markets closed, trying to pitch his organic, kosher dog treats to retailers. Now ...
• 3 Perks That Work in Lieu of Raises
Entrepreneur.com - In a down economy, small-business owners will invariably feel the pinch. And, unfortunately, so will their employees. According to a study by Hewitt Associates, employees can ...
• The Entrepreneur as Leader
Entrepreneur.com - Many writers have penned essays on the characteristics, behaviors, values and attitudes that spell success for the entrepreneurial leader. My top 10 list goes further, blending ...
• What to Do When an Employee Leaves
Entrepreneur.com - For the entrepreneur, employee turnover always raises challenges, questions and issues. Employees, of course, leave for many reasons. They're promoted, take a new or ...
• Getting More from Your Employees
Entrepreneur.com - "Average" isn't good enough any more. Not in this competitive environment. Not in this lagging economy. If you accept average performance from your employees, ...
• Unearth Your Inner Indy
Entrepreneur.com - "You call this archeology?!" By the time Henry Jones had uttered those four iconic words to his son, Henry Jr., known to the rest of us as Indiana Jones (even if it was ...
• Outsourcing to Grow Your Home Business
Entrepreneur.com - Most people go into business desiring success and better balance in their lives. Spending endless hours commuting and dealing with corporate politics isn't exactly the ...
• The Scholarly 'Apprentice'
Entrepreneur.com - Unlike most reality show winners, Randal Pinkett was successful long before he was hired by Donald Trump after the fourth season of "The Apprentice." His company, BCT ...
• The Scholarly 'Apprentice'
Entrepreneur.com - Unlike most reality show winners, Randal Pinkett was successful long before he was hired by Donald Trump after the fourth season of "The Apprentice." His company, BCT ...