Tag Archives : human resources

If you tweet at your work place, you’re a bad bad boy (or girl)!

If you tweet at your work place, you’re a bad bad boy (or girl)!

A research accomplished by Robert Half Technology reveals that 54% of the North American companies forbidden employees of using social networkss like Twitter and Facebook during the work. Published yesterday, the report of the specialized company in human resources also discovered that 19% of the companies allow the use of such services just for subjects [...]
Georgia-Pacific Corporation and CEO Joe Moeller: A Multinational Company of ‘Entrepreneurs’

Georgia-Pacific Corporation and CEO Joe Moeller: A Multinational Company of ‘Entrepreneurs’

The spirit of entrepreneurship that was instilled at Georgia-Pacific Corporation only resulted in positive gains for the company. By making each and every employee accountable for the overall company performance, then new CEO Joe Moeller was empowering the people towards a win-win situation for the organization. His then new organizational leadership, [...]
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)

According to Webopedia, Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP is a business management system that incorporates into a cohesive whole all the components of the business endeavor such as planning, manufacturing, sales, and marketing. This business management system helps business managers in such stages as inventory, order, audit, billing, customer service, [...]
It’s Simple, Really – Empowered Employees Mean Company Growth

It’s Simple, Really – Empowered Employees Mean Company Growth

Trust and confidence in employees greatly empower them, making them motivated to collectively bring the company to significant progress. In operational terms, this simply means endowing the people with measurable accountability of tasks. They are adults, after all. This mandated individual accountability brings about a sense of responsibility in each [...]
Organizational Reengineering: Sense of Ownership

Organizational Reengineering: Sense of Ownership

Nowhere is systems thinking more evident than in employee relations. Open systems thinking and empowering clients to have the ability to be self-reliant have certainly become operationally pragmatic. In systems thinking, the focal point is empowerment. Interdependency is the natural result of systems thinking and empowerment. The employee organization [...]
The Toxic Boss

The Toxic Boss

If the boss is the perpetrator of workplace incivility or workplace bullying, he will discover down the line that his toxic attitude does more harm than good for the company he is being paid to serve. Workplace incivility can include negative work behavior that can either be subtle or rude, is done with total disrespectful and disregard for co-workers, [...]
Workplace Incivility and Employee Turnover

Workplace Incivility and Employee Turnover

The business organization would do well to have an image and reputation of recognizing the equal and unequivocal human rights of each and everyone. The human resources department of the company should have a very careful and thorough process of hiring employees, thereby being capable of eliminating potential problems in the future. The department should [...]
Conflict Resolution Strategies in Team Dynamics

Conflict Resolution Strategies in Team Dynamics

There are some conflict resolution strategies that work for individual teams. There is one common strategy that runs through all these, though, and that is dialogue. A cooperative problem-solving style also enables people to work together. This cooperation not only finishes the work but also bolsters camaraderie and team spirit. Some employ the strategy [...]
Group Dynamics: Convergence + Resolution

Group Dynamics: Convergence + Resolution

Conflict resolution, a resultant and logical step to address the inescapable reality of conflict, is a must to move the team forward. Conflict resolution is a dynamic and pro-active endeavor that serves to find a commonality among the diversity in team membership. If there is no resolution to conflicts, the uniqueness of the individual cannot have [...]
Constructive Conflict

Constructive Conflict

Successful victims of conflict fight back even with negative response most of the time. Some responded by being absent often from team activities. The insight is clear. Those who fight back and try to resolve the conflict are members who recognize and confront the conflict issues squarely. In the process, they employ all means possible in terms of [...]