Empowering Employees to Take Responsibility For Safety

Every HR department hears ­­ and repeats ­­ the statistics on job accidents and injuries that cost American employers millions of dollars each year. But do your organization’s employees recognize the burden these accidents and injuries put on them, either from direct injuries or from the trickle­down effect of others’ injuries? Getting employees to take… Read more »

Why Are Your Employees Leaving?

When your organization is stuck in an endless loop of employees leaving and employees coming on board, it’s easy to spend so much time keeping enough hands on deck that you lose sight of what this work signifies: increased turnover. It’s a red flag for you as a manager when employees are seeking greener pastures…. Read more »

Onboarding Your Temporary Employees for Success

There’s a tendency to think of temporary employees as just that — employees who are only passing through your organization. If you’ve been neglecting onboarding temporary employees because you don’t think they’ll be there long enough for it to matter, you’re doing a disservice to your organization and your temp employees. Onboarding temp hires gives… Read more »

Hiring Outlook: Oregon

Oregon hiring managers, the news is good — both job growth and population growth in the state’s biggest metro hubs are looking up. Where the People Will Be Create great jobs, and great candidates will follow. Even if your company isn’t planning an expansion, if you’re in Oregon’s metro areas, you can take advantage of… Read more »

When Is the Right Time to Start Hiring?

Summer is here — time for vacations, sunburns, and getting everything in place to hire employees to fill your 2016 holiday staffing needs. No, don’t read that sentence again, you read it right the first time. When it comes to filling anticipated hiring needs, the time to act is not a month before the holiday… Read more »

Managing Millennials in the Light Industrial Workforce

From their sky-high student loans to their adult years spent living with mom and dad, millennials get a lot of flack. Before you show your age, examine a little of the millennial mindset. A recent Gallup Poll of millennial workers sheds some light on what managers need to understand about the millennials who are part… Read more »

Are You Ready to Hire Generation Z?

Just when you think you’ve got your millennial employees figured out, there’s a new generation of workers to shake up your workplace paradigm: Generation Z. They’re the millennial workforce’s younger sibs, and they’ll be entering the job market before you know it, so learn all you can about managing Generation Z before they enter your… Read more »

Pitfalls of Micromanagement in the Workplace

It starts off with thinking it would be easier to tackle a task herself than to rely on an employee to do it. Then it’s double- or triple-checking an employee’s work, creating schedules that are timed to the minute, and asking for reports on a fanatical basis. It’s called micromanaging, and almost every manager has… Read more »

Are Your Performance Reviews Effective?

Performance reviews are the bane of managers and employees alike, but ineffective or paint-by-numbers evaluations are irritating to employees and unhelpful to managers when they need to discipline or reward employees. If your HR files are full of vague or effusive performance reviews, then your evaluation process is anything but effective. Meaningless performance reviews are… Read more »

Does Your Company’s Reputation Attract Top Candidates?

A run of subpar job applicants may be nothing more than a fluke, but if you’re noticing more and more seemingly second-rate applicants, and fewer applicants for open positions than in the past, then it’s time to take a closer look at how your company is presenting itself to job applicants — especially online. As… Read more »