With a long hard winter behind us and summer temperatures finally arriving in Northeast Ohio, now is an ideal time to take a good look at your dress code and perhaps provide your employees with a little refresher as well.
Conflict Resolution Tips Every Manager Should Know
Working in any organization means working with people that have a variety of opinions, perspectives, and/or work styles. And while organizations who foster such diversity are the strongest type of organizations, it doesn’t always mean everyone will get along 100% of the time.
What is an Applicant Tracking System (ATS)?
An applicant tracking system (ATS) is a software application that automates and manages the recruiting and application process.
4 Tips for Reading and Analyzing Salary Ranges
A key aspect of any healthy compensation plan is transparency. Due to the potentially charged nature of pay, very few organizations share the individual rates of pay for each employee, but there are certainly other ways to help your employees understand how and why their paychecks are what they are even if you aren’t quite ready to email your payroll out to the whole office.
Compensation Planning Tips: What is the Median?
When it comes to compensation planning, one of the most important figures to have on hand is undoubtedly the median or 50th percentile. However, depending on your overall compensation philosophy, you may also want to gather other percentiles along the way, such as the 25th and 75th percentiles.
11 Team Building Games and Activities
There are a variety of reasons why companies use team building activities. They can improve communication, boost morale, motivate, be used as ice breakers and learning effective strategies, improve productivity, and teach people about each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
The Cleveland Foundation: Turning Passion into Purpose
For Community Service month of April 2014, we teamed up with the Cleveland Foundation’s HR Director, Monica Brown, and the HR Manager, Danielle Hanna. In the following pages, they share why community service initiatives and programs are so important at organizations, how the Foundation is celebrating its centennial year with community gifts, and how they’ve turned their life’s passion into purposeful work as an HR leader.
Does Your Company Need a Drug-Free Workplace Policy?
When a company integrates a drug-free policy with an organization’s risk management, health management and/or psychological health workplace strategies, it provides a competitive advantage for any business. We spoke with Patrick Gaul, manager of account services at ease@work, about the benefits of having a drug-free workplace.
Choosing an MCO (Managed Care Organization)
ERC is proud to endorse CareWorks as the preferred workers’ compensation Managed Care Organization for its’ members. From April 28 through May 23, 2014, Ohio employers have the opportunity to select a new MCO to medically manage their workers’ compensation claims for the next two years.
ERC Partners with StoneWater Golf Club to Offer Members a Golf Club Experience
ERC has partnered with “Cleveland’s fastest growing Private Golf Club,” the StoneWater Golf Club, located in Highland Heights. ERC is now a Corporate Golf Member at the Club and will be able to offer all ERC Members savings on golf outing packages, introductory golf lessons, the StoneWater “Golf for Business” etiquette program with PGA Master Professional Bob Bourne, and clubhouse dining in the StoneWater Grill.
The Top 5 Reasons Employers Hire Interns
With summer just around the corner, many employers are going through the process of hiring one or more summer interns into their organization right now. But why go through all the effort of hiring, training and supervising a short term, inexperienced employee who will probably have to leave your organization to go back to school come fall?
Intern Etiquette: 6 Tips for Moving from a Classroom to the Workplace
It’s that time of year again. Students are putting together their polished resumes in the hopes of securing that coveted internship spot at their dream company. Unfortunately, a lot of students are not taught how to ace an internship interview while in the classroom. Here are some tips on how to stand out of the crowd and become a step closer to gaining more real world experience and starting your career.
