It’s a fact of life that most people have to work for money. Even people who love their jobs likely would not perform them free.  To a company, the salary budget is its biggest expense. To employees, it’s a reward system for their work perform ...

Employers do investigations every day. These fact findings generally entail conversations with employees so as to gather observations and determine facts. In theory, investigatory interviewing sounds easy but in reality, it's often not. On ...

In an increasingly complicated world of employee compliance in which HR struggles just to keep abreast of new developments, not teaching managers the basics can be costly.  After all it’s the managers who interact with employees on a day-to-day ba ...

Knowing how to conduct an internal investigation in regards to a complaint, accident, reports of misconduct or even in regards to a performance situation, is one of the most critical skills every manager and certainly, every HR professional requir ...

Brain drain is considered the loss of talent, intellectual property, loss of corporate knowledge, even culture that is lost from employees exiting from a company. Unplugged brain drain can cripple a company. Much of that brain drain is unnecessary ...

There are no groups of individuals who cause more trouble in a workplace than the bullies, the liars, the passive- aggressive people and the saboteurs. Those four types of people will run ethical, hardworking and talented people right out the door ...

Documenting employee problems is both the best way to avoid AND cause compliance problems in the workplace. What starts out as sound management practices, upon execution by untrained persons or those with an “agenda” can have disastrous effects fo ...