2009 May
Growing Tomorrow’s Star Players
May 12, 2009 0 Comments
When they were youngsters, who would have predicted that Bill Gates would end up the world’s richest man or the Beatles would change the face of the music industry? No one according to Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers: The story of Success. Successful people, Read More
DailyHRTips.com Makes Some Changes!
May 11, 2009 0 Comments
5 weeks ago we launched DailyHRTips.com and, thus far, we’ve had a great response from the Human Resources and Organization Development world! In addition to the many many insightful comments left on our daily tips, we also received some great advice on how we can Read More
Tip #78: Tips for Handling Severance Pay
May 7, 2009 0 Comments
Severance pay is money that an employer might want to provide for an employee who is leaving their organization. Severance pay may be provided to employees in cases of layoffs, job elimination, and mutual agreement to part ways, for whatever reason. Severance pay usually amounts Read More
Tip #77: Tips for Using Outplacement Effectively
May 7, 2009 0 Comments
With today’s bad economy, more and more companies are finding themselves faced with the situation of having to reduce headcount to remain competitive. As part of this process many firms consider using the services of an outplacement firm. Outplacement is a service for people who Read More
Tip #76: Tips for Managing Employee Layoffs
May 7, 2009 0 Comments
An employee separation is the termination of their membership in an organization. There are two basic types of employee separations: voluntary separation – when an employee decides, for personal or professional reasons, to end the relationship with the employer, and involuntary separation – when an Read More
Tip #75: Run Charts – useful for identifying trends in the data
May 6, 2009 0 Comments
So you’re a HR professional responsible for supporting customer service reps in a call center. The supervisor tells you that productivity is going down mid morning and mid afternoon. What to do? Well you may want to collect data on the customer service rep productivity Read More
Tip #74: Scatter Plots – useful for understanding the relationships between two variables
May 6, 2009 0 Comments
Suppose, as a Human Resources person, you want to understand the reasons for employee no-shows at work. Because you live in Vermont you suspect that the level of snow fall might have an influence on this but you are not sure. Well, have no fear Read More
Tip #73: Flowcharts – Understanding and Communicating How a Process Works
May 6, 2009 0 Comments
Human Resources is, in many ways, a process driven function. There is the recruitment process, the hiring process, the on-boarding process, the payroll process, the succession planning process, the performance management process (I could go on but I will stop here – you get the Read More
Tip #72: Using Pareto Analysis for spotting and prioritizing the big issues
May 5, 2009 0 Comments
This is the second in our series of tips for using analysis tools to solve HR issues. This one is on the Pareto analysis tool. A Pareto analysis (also called the 80/20 rule) is a very simple technique that helps you to identify and prioritize Read More
Tip #71: Using the Fishbone Diagram for Getting to the Root of the Problem
May 5, 2009 0 Comments
The nice thing about the Fishbone Diagram analysis tool is that there are no statistics involved! It is simply a way to map out a problem so that you can more clearly identify the causes and take corrective action. The reason this tool is called Read More
