Today’s business leaders eventually all end up facing the independent contractor vs. full-time employee dilemma. But there’s no need to scratch your head so much with this, we’re here to help. When you start a new business, you will invariably decide that you need help. Most small business owners start out by hiring outside contractors […]
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Keeping good employees for the right reasons
First of all: Stop the DRAMA! If you don’t, who will? The fact that people leave the company is a perfectly normal thing and, believe me, it is not as bad as it seems. Nobody is irreplaceable. With that said, a working relationship is not a marriage, it should stay dynamic, flow naturally and be […]
Confidentiality in the Workplace
“What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas.” We are all familiar with that phrase and tend to chuckle a little when we hear it. A similar phrase exists in the HR world that goes like this: “What Happens in HR Stays in HR.” It’s a humorous play on words, but the meaning is serious. For […]
The Importance of HR Management: HR-to-Employee Ratio
Before we explore the basics of HR Management, which we’ll be referring to it as HRM, let’s define HRM. HRM comprises the formal systems designed to manage people in an organization. To best understand HRM, we will look at a brief history, understand the roles HRM plays in organizations and go over when is it […]
Workplace Bullying: What is Mobbing?
Let’s call it like it is, Mobbing is basically “bullying on steroids,” and it is a kind of mass bullying or group campaign of harassment and cruelty, conscious or unconscious, designed to undermine the confidence, impugn the competence, and undercut the effectiveness of certain employees. Did you know that at least 30 percent of bullying […]
Workplace Bullying: Types of Microaggressions
We’ve been talking about how unconscious bias influences the way that we perceive others during the recruitment process. Now I want to shift gears a little bit and focus on how unconscious biases can influence the way that we behave towards others during our everyday life at the office. Perhaps some of you have heard […]
Gender Bias in the Recruitment Process
Closing the gender pay gap, ending gender-based violence, promoting gender equality… these have been the hot topics of last year and it’s gaining even more strength now in 2019. Have you ever wondered why despite all that we know about diversity, companies continue to face significant challenges related to diversity and gender representation? Gender bias […]
What is a Blind CV?
A blind curriculum is a new way of developing a typical CV, in this case without including any personal information that hints about the sex, age or ethnicity of a future worker. In general, trying to cancel any type of information that has nothing to do with a person’s work capabilities. It is also possible to […]
6 signs your employee is unhappy with their job
No one is safe from having some bad days at the job, but there are signs that tell you when a bad week in the office will turn into a total burnout in the long run. Too many people feel that they are stuck in a toxic workplace, a problem that most bosses and employees […]