Seeking New Jobs

Jenny Ho | July 25, 2010 | 0 Comments

As a manager you might have stumbled across your employees updating their resume while ostensibly busy at work. It’s always a sobering thought to realize that your best employees are probably looking for greener pastures. What’s more, it’s a given that at any time your employees are sending off their resumes to the competition. So [...]

Tips for Determining a Motivating Salary

Jenny Ho | July 18, 2010 | 0 Comments

Over the years psychologists have provided different backgrounds to employee motivation but what remains true is that salary is one of the key factors which you have to take into consideration. Before we look into that, we need to know another important fact. Why do we need motivated employees? The answer is because motivated employees [...]

Recruiting Women for Male Dominated Industries like Oil and Gas

Jenny Ho | July 13, 2010 | 0 Comments

If a workplace has been traditionally male dominated for a long time like the Oil & Gas and some engineering industries, there may be heavily entrenched behaviors and ideas that will need revising as more and more women enter the company. It’s important to consider constructing a gender-neutral policy.
It’s quite common, for example, for [...]

Managing Gen Y-ers

Jenny Ho | July 11, 2010 | 0 Comments

The professional workforce is getting geared for the huge onrush of Gen Yers to join them and most managers are wary of handling them despite the confidence and positivity that these youngsters seem to project. What is the reason for this fear or rather uncomfortable attitude? Gen Y-ers were born between 1978 and 1998 and [...]

Employee Job Descriptions

Jenny Ho | July 4, 2010 | 0 Comments

You may not have realized but employee job descriptions are actually more than just advertising spiel used to fill an empty position. Employee job descriptions can be used effectively in many ways, and if utilized correctly, they can act as perfect communication tools in your organization.
The downside to it is that improper employee job descriptions [...]