Benefits/HR


Recent Benefits/HR Articles

Blowing Your Own Horn

One CEO purchased a siren to help celebrate small accomplishments in the office.  Read more

Quality Time

A manufacturer cuts down on 10-hour work days and rewards its workers for a resulting increase in productivity.  Read more

Now Read This

A CEO provides incentive to encourage employees to read the company newsletter.  Read more

Title Free

A company president downplays the importance of job titles in order to empower frontline people with authority.  Read more

Divided We Fall

Hearing Technologies Inc. adds a team approach to its organizational structure.  Read more

Informed Sources

Building technological expertise into your company: making sure someone knows how to run and fix the machines.  Read more

Growing Up as a CEO

After eight years of unbroken business success, Walter Riley found out he wasn't the leader he thought he was.  Read more

Who's in Charge Here?

A portrait of the relationship between a founder and a professional manager.  Read more

Phone Manners

Company owner created a bonus system for employees in order to cut down on the amount of time customers spend on hold.  Read more

Take A Break

Retail shoe CEO provides television and eating space for his employees.  Read more

Money Isn't Everything

Tom Bayliss, CEO of Tab Electric Supply Inc., doesn't like to lure new employees with high-salary offers.  Read more

What Motivates Managers?

Survey: What kinds of motivating factors do managers value most?  Read more

Make No Mistake

Company head presents awards for the year's best mistakes.  Read more

Growing Your Own

What to do when you can't afford to hire experienced people.  Read more

Award Winner

Award-winning company reaps PR benefits from its new national recognition.  Read more

The Next Priority

While small businesses continue to create jobs, the national standard of living has not risen since 1973.  Read more

Blowup

A behind-the-scenes look at a business whose future hung in the balance while its partners waged war.  Read more

Getting to Know You

Original Copy Centers Inc. publishes an employee yearbook in order to celebrate its staff members.  Read more

Paper Chase

NCO Financial Systems Inc. has created a bonus system for data-entry clerks that has brought paperwork under control.  Read more

Absenteeism

Chart: What some companies are doing to curb absenteeism.  Read more

Drive In

As a special bonus for its employee of the month, Phoenix Textiles Inc. reserves a special parking spot.  Read more

How To Write an Ad

With creative classified ads, Gnossos Software attracts top job applicants.  Read more

Time Out

As a means of motivation and quality control, one company gives time off to salespeople who reach a designated limit.  Read more

If at First You Don't Succeed

Company adjusts its bonus system to accomodate changing times.  Read more

The Processed Word

Answers to the most frequently asked questions about word processing.  Read more

My Favorite Company

Inc. writers and editors write about their favorite companies.  Read more

Benefit Plan Compliance: Section 89

Survey of CEOs asking whether the documentation for their benefit plans are in compliance with Section 89.  Read more

Simplest May Be Best

In profitable years, a company puts one dollar into each employee's year-end bonus for each hour the employee works.  Read more

Answering The Bonus Question

A musical instrument manufacturer gives its employees bonuses for coming up with cost-cutting ideas.  Read more

Sounding Board

Company founder holds bi-weekly meetings with board of employees in order to get feedback about company.  Read more

Hiring The Best

Some screening techniques that will help to eliminate mistakes when making hiring decisions.  Read more

Management By Necessity

Interview with one CEO and the steps behind his $80 million, no venture capital, computer software company.  Read more

National Guide To Salaries

Information on a reference manual which describes and lists fair and average salaries for myriad office positions.  Read more

Managing People: Helping care for the kids.

Survey showing nine work-schedule policies and the percentage of small companies that offer these benefits.  Read more

The Safety Game

A manufacturing plant plays an on-going bingo game each day, during which the facility runs without an accident.  Read more