Less Than 5 Minute Quick Tips:  A few HR findings to save you research time… 

 

Costs to an organization due to turnover can be as much as 150 percent of the salary of the departing employee. 

(Smart Supervision, 2003)

 

 

Employees Can Talk About Wages

The National Labor Relations Act provides all employees the right to engage in "concerted activity for mutual aid and protection," and employers are discouraged from taking disciplinary action against employees who divulge their wages to other employees. Employers can encourage discretion about wage information.                                    (www.SHRM.org   February 17, 2004)    Let’s keep an eye on this!

 

Eight Phrases That Expose Underachievers…

“We’ve tried that before.”

“That will never work.”

“They ‘ll never let us do that.”

“Yes, but…”

“That’s not how I would do it.”

“Nobody else does it that way.”

“We have more than enough good ideas.”

“Whose idea was this anyway?”

                                        (Smart Supervision, 2003)

 

Plus a little bit of humor…

 

Excerpts from actual employee evaluations.  (Hope none ring a bell...Reader’s Digest, October 2003.)

“Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap.”

“His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity.”

“When she opens her mouth, it is only to change feet.”

“He doesn’t have ulcers, but he’s a carrier.”

“If you see two people talking and one looks bored, he’s the other one.”