Management tips: Dealing with employees turnover

What if your employee resigns tomorrow? And another good employee resigns the day after tomorrow? These questions form fears inside the minds of many employers – perhaps these employers include you.  The fear is considerable since a high employee turnover rate insinuates ineffectiveness of a company’s management (particularly human resource management). Moreover, it hurts an employer and his company whenever an employee resigns. It may involve emotional pain on the human side of managers and employers. It may also involve financial and operational pain on the business side of companies and organizations. But many companies, especially large companies that maintain effective “Human Resources” departments, can manage this kind of emotional and business pains.

In small businesses, high employee turnover is very common since these companies usually don’t have HR departments or HR officers who oversees and preserves harmonization between companies and employees. Maintaining HR departments or hiring HR personnel may be costly for small business owners. But what we can do to eradicate a high employee turnover rate in our small firms? Do we really need to invest a lot of money for that? Read more

Ten features and qualities of a good leader

This post only needs a few minutes to read. But I hope this will give you a piece of wisdom that you can carry for the rest of your life as a leader, business owner, manager, employer and teacher. The following are the ten must have features and qualities of a good leader. Read more

How to make your employees happy, motivated and productive?

So let us get direct to the point. The following is a list of things that bosses should give a great consideration to make their employees happy, motivated and productive.

1. Generous compensation

Show to your employees that you are fair and generous. Good and intelligent employees can easily sense when they are not compensated fairly by their employers. Good employees can easily get out from your office and find other better employers who can compensate them better.

2. Clear career paths

Employees have their own career dreams. Be sure that you can provide your employees their road to career success that is aligned to your Company. Otherwise they may go on other better paths that other employers may provide. Read more

Business Stress and Anger Management

Have you ever been in a situation where your brain and your blood pressure are almost erupting because of so much stress and hatred brought to you by an irritating object, event or person? I know you will answer yes. People, especially who are living in the city and work with technology like computers and internet suffer these problems. One thing that causes me too much stress is technology ineffectiveness and inefficiency. Technologies are supposed to make your life easy and convenient. That’s why when these technologies like computers are causing me troubles and inconvenience – I really suffer from severe stress. Read more

Love and romantic relationship between employees in a business working place

What would be the effect if there will be a love and romantic relationship between co-workers in a working place? Will it create a negative or a positive effect in the organization? Or will it depend on the kind of relationship the employees will have? Some companies and employers disallow their employees to have such relationship. There are many reasons why they don’t allow such occurrence. One reason is to avoid the possibility of connivance between couples – this is to maintain a strong internal control in an organization. Some say that the unpleasant and high emotions that the relationship will bring when the couple is in a quarrel will cause a negative impact on the people around them. This impact goes through the mental, emotional and spiritual channels of humanism. It includes additional stress that may deter the efficiency and effectiveness of the workers’ output in the company’s operations. With these reasons, employers may become pessimistic enough to prevent such existence of relationship. Other employers stand for the axiom “prevention is better than cure”. Read more

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