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Recent Human Resources Articles

Tackle Big Projects Productively: 5 tips

Do you want to be highly productive when approaching a big project? Here are five insights from a Harvard expert to help you start and finish with ease.  Read more

What Your Employees Are Doing When You Think They're Working

It's Friday afternoon. Are your employees actually working? Should you care?  Read more

Just Say No to Micromanaging

Micromanagement could have a huge long- and short-term negative impact on your ability to be effective as a manager.  Read more

Get Rich Quick? That's Not Our Culture 

John Mackey, Whole Foods CEO, talks about his company's salary cap, and what that means for employee culture.  Watch video

'I Had to Check My Ego at the Door' 

Chinedu Echeruo talks about stepping down as HopStop CEO in 2009, four years after he founded the city transit directions app.  Watch video

Another Social Media Disaster: Should You Fire Someone for an Off-Color Joke?

What happens when an employee makes a conflict public?  Read more

Measure (and Reward) Ethical Behavior

You measure employee performance and sales. But you're forgetting to measure what matters most to overall success: ethical behavior.  Read more

6 Ways to Attract Top Talent

Even in today's economy, the most talented workers have plenty of choices. Here's how to make sure they join you, not the competition.  Read more

10 Perks Your Small Business Can Afford

Perks that make your employees happy don't have to cost an arm and a leg--really.  Read more

A Job Listing Should Be Like a Love Letter

You're not looking for generic employees. So why are you writing generic job listings?  Read more

Why I Don't Fire the Jerks

A plan of attack when the only job candidates you can find are jerks.  Read more

7 Things Your Employees Think About You (But Would Never Say)

Have you stopped to consider that your employees may talk about you the way you used to talk about your boss?  Read more

Want Smarter Employees? Quiz Them

The act of taking a test actually helps you learn. It's one more tool to help your employees be the best they can be.  Read more

The Deadly Cost of a B-Player

Here's how mediocre employees can take down a business. Don't let it happen to you.  Read more

How to Fix the Unemployment Rate

The calculation underlying the U.S. unemployment rate is broken. It needs to be corrected. Soon.  Read more

8 Most Common Complaints About the Boss

What are you doing that really drives your employees crazy? You might want to give this list a close read.  Read more

Can Body Odor Fall Under Religious Protection?

An employee's habits may be odious to you, but be careful before taking disciplinary action--they may be protected by law.  Read more

3 Keys to Business Excellence

Excelling in business isn't necessarily rocket science. In fact you just have to master these three things.  Read more

5 Things You Need to Know About Hiring Contractors

If you're using contractors because they are cheaper than employees, you may be in big trouble.  Read more

8 Rules to Make Telecommuting Work

Culture is key at Blinds.com. But letting employees work from home is a crucial part of that maintaining that culture.  Read more

Rewrite That Boring Job Description

Want to attract the A-players to work for your business? Here's what needs to be in the job description.  Read more

The Truth About the Office Wallflower

He never speaks up in group meetings and cringes when invited to after-work happy hours. What's the problem? Maybe it's you.  Read more

Help Your Employees Get More Done

If you want happy employees, then help them do their jobs faster and better. Here's how.  Read more

It's Time to Fire the Jerks

Sometimes the best thing you can do for your staff as a whole is to fire the jerks.  Read more

The Incentives That Motivate Best Are...

...Noncash, tangible, and specific. Learn how to bring the best out of your employees.  Read more

The Stuff Strong Relationships Are Made Of

The best way to get help is to give it. But there's one other step that's just as crucial to building strong working relationships.  Read more

6 Ways Obama's Affordable Care Act is Good for Your Business

One health care entrepreneur espouses the legislation's virtues, even if it means more government involvement in business.  Read more

5 Ways to Know if You Should Allow Telecommuting

Depending who you ask, telecommuting is the wave of the future or a drag on innovation. How do you know if it's right for your business?  Read more

Why It's Wise to Hire People Smarter Than You

For one thing, it's the answer to your micromanagement problem.  Read more

The Case for More Office Parties

Take a day each month to show your employees the appreciation they deserve.  Read more

4 Ways Not to Sink Your Start-up With a Bad Hire

Start-ups need a particular type of employee. Here's what you should be looking for.  Read more

4 Employee 'Motivators' That Can Backfire

Most of the people who work for you wouldn't dare admit that these incentives don't work nearly as well as you think they do.  Read more

10 Things Really Amazing Employees Do

Here are ten traits that any great employer should recognize and reward instantly.  Read more

How to Let Go an Unstable Employee

One of the very hardest things you'll ever do as a business owner is terminate an employee. You need to think about all of these things.  Read more

How to Tell if the Sequester Will Affect You

The sequester won't hit everyone--but some of you will be hit hard. See if you answer "yes" to any of these six questions.  Read more