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.
4 Employer Guidelines for Election Day
Election Day is approaching and employers should be aware of certain guidelines with regard to providing time off for employees to vote, communicating voting time policies, influencing employees’ vote, and mitigating political discussions in the workplace.
OSHA’s Top 10 Safety Violations for 2012
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently announced the top 10 most frequently cited workplace safety violations for 2012. The list includes the following:
Understanding the Value of Talent Management
“People are our greatest asset.”
Free Daylight Savings Time Change Poster
Don’t miss our more current Fall 2014 Time Change Daylight Savings Poster (PDF)!
Free Training Planning Worksheet
Planning and organizing employee training for an entire year can be a challenge. That’s why we’re providing you with a simple worksheet to help you chart and organize the types of training classes that will be offered in a given year, the individuals who will attend those classes, their perceived skill level, and the timing of when they will attend training throughout the year.
Money Still Available for BWC Transitional Work Grants
Over the summer, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) began accepting applications for the latest round of Transitional Work Grants. Grant money is still available for employers wishing to participate.
