Firing an employee is one of the most unpleasant tasks you face, not to mention legally risky, and should be navigated with much caution, preparation, and deliberation. Here are 15 tips for effective, compliant, and professional terminations.
5 Surprising Employee Benefits Found in Non-Profits
Thanksgiving Day of is just around the corner, which means your organization is probably gearing up for a food drive, adopting a family in need for the holidays, or volunteering at a soup kitchen (or maybe you work for the social service organization that is providing these volunteer opportunities). There are certainly plenty of non-profit organizations in Northeast Ohio to choose from and we’ve all heard hundreds, if not thousands of stories of the good deeds these organizations strive to achieve. But what about the employees that run these organizations day-to-day? What do their non-profit sector employers offer to them as employees?
Keys to Setting Up a Training & Development Process
Many organizations have a training and development function of their business nowadays, whether it is one or a few staff members devoted to training and development, or an entire department. Developing a training function not only helps centralize employee training and development, but also supports an organization’s commitment to employee development. Increasingly, organizations that invest in and structure their approach to training and development have a ‘leg up” on the competition.
6 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Reforms Taking Effect in 2014
Although the employer mandate required under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) doesn’t take effect until 2015, several reforms become effective in 2014. Here are the key reforms that you need to know.
3 Health Care Cost Benchmarks
With some organizations and individuals encountering significant changes to their health insurance costs and plans in 2014, the following metrics provide benchmarks on how organizations in Northeast Ohio have structured their health insurance plans and how much these plans are costing both employers and employees.
Q&A: Holistic Wellness in the Workplace
Holistic wellness approaches are gradually becoming more common in the workplace, with more organizations realizing that truly enhancing well-being requires a broader view of wellness. ERC continually sees employers gradually incorporating holistic approaches into their wellness and health care options, and citing very positive results.
20 Subtle Signs of Bullying at Work
If you think workplace bullying doesn’t affect some of your employees, you’re mistaken. One in four employees is affected by it. There is a misconception that bullying is overt. Rather, it’s often subtle, slow, and insidious mistreatment that passes over the radar screen.
What to Do When Managers Behave Badly
A new national study of leadership uncovered that many managers and senior managers lack the behaviors required to be good leaders. This calls into question: what if our managers are behaving badly with our employees, and what should we do about it?
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The Ultimate Guide to Training Your Supervisors and Managers
Learn how training your supervisors and managers will help them overcome challenges, motivate those around them, and be more effective in their roles.
The “5 W’s” of Payroll
Payroll may not be the most glamorous function in an organization, but it is certainly one of the most critical. To better understand how this process takes place at a sampling of 179 Northeast Ohio organizations, we turn to the results of the 2013 ERC Payroll Practices Survey, which are summarized in the “5 W’s” below.
6 Easy Tips to Re-Recruit & Retain Your Best Employees
Challenged with retaining good people? In order to retain your best talent, your organization needs to constantly re-recruit internally to re-energize them and solidify their loyalty so that they remain committed to your company, just like you would with a job candidate.
3 Insights on Employee Motivation
What makes some employees pour themselves into the work they do? That’s the heart of the question behind motivating employees. Here are three (3) insights on employee motivation.
An Overview of Workers’ Compensation
While most employers take numerous steps to keep the workplace safe and healthy, injuries and accidents happen occasionally. Workers’ compensation provides pay and benefits for workers injured while working, and also saves employers’ liability and medical expenses.
