Tracking employee attendance is important to ensure that you have a record of employee absence, tardiness, vacation time and more. Download the free Attendance Record below to help you track attendance for your employees.
2013 Vacation Planner (Free Download)
Vacation planners make employers vacation request and approval process a lot easier and more efficient. We’ve put together a free Vacation Planner for 2013 that you can download below.
10-Step Company Holiday Party Planning Checklist
Most companies have a holiday party for their employees each year. In our 2012 ERC Holiday Practices Survey, nearly three-quarters (73%) of 186 Northeast Ohio organizations surveyed are planning a holiday party for 2012 and the majority (66%) are budgeting the same or more than in 2011.
Free Download: Holiday Gift Planner
We’ve put together a simple Gift Planner for you to use this holiday season! Feel free to download the PDF and Excel files, print them out, and share them with friends and family!
10 Ways to Give Thanks to Your Employees
This week, we commence the season of giving thanks not only with our families and friends, but also of showing gratitude to our vendors, customers, and employees.
Facebook Announces Social Jobs App
In 2012 Facebook, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor and several other organizations announced the Social Jobs Partnership, a new social media-based job search tool. The Social Jobs Partnership app is a centralized database of job opportunities pulled from a number of outside job boards. At the time of launch, there were about 1.7 million jobs hosted through the app.
3 Guidelines When Terminating an Employee
Unfortunately, some employees don’t work out – their behavior or poor performance escalates and they eventually need to be terminated. Many organizations have questions about properly carrying out terminations, including what to do to address the problem, when it’s appropriate to terminate an employee, and how they facilitate the termination itself. Here are 3 guidelines when terminating an employee.
The Power of Social Media in the Workplace
As social media expands into every aspect of our lives, including the workplace, striking a balance between leveraging social media as a business tool and managing its use by individual employees across your organization and can be a challenging balancing act. In an effort to help shed light on how Northeast Ohio employers are handling this difficult issue, ERC recently released the 2012 Social Media in the Workplace Survey report.
How to Motivate Employees in 3 Easy, Surprising Ways
In “Drive, The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,” author Daniel Pink suggests that using only traditional rewards and punishment (“carrots and sticks”) to motivate employees is no longer effective and does not suit the greatest needs and challenges of our organizations.
Communicating in Times of Crisis: HR’s Role
On behalf of everyone at ERC, our thoughts are with all those affected both nationally and locally by 2012’s Hurricane Sandy.
