How to compute 13th Month Pay: DOLE Philippines

We are already on the month of October and after a few months, Christmas season is here again. For employees, that season sounds delightful. Aside from the enjoyable Christmas party and the series of vacations, the long awaiting 13th Month pay will finally land in our hands. For employers, this extra month pay is an additional mandated expense given to employees once or twice (installment) a year. However, some good business owners and employers see the giving of this added remuneration to employees as an appreciation and gratitude for their valuable contribution to their companies.

An employer must know how to compute the lawful amount of 13th month pays to be distributed to his employees. On the other hand, it is clever for an employee to know the computation of his thirteenth month paycheck to ensure that he is receiving it in the right amount of money. So to know what must be known, the following guidelines are presented below. Read more

Business management tip: Directing people in an organization

Directing is considered as the most humane function of management. It is also called as the heart of management. This function involves influencing human behavior through motivation, communication, coaching, leadership, discipline, development of interpersonal skills and assistance for the achievement of individual’s personal goals. In this function, managers are transforming into good leaders – that is, they are considering not only the organizational goals but also the personal objectives of their people. Directing tries to align the future of the organization and its people. The philosophy behind this is that, the organization cannot be considered as successful if its members are failing. Read more

Get your food for the soul

We always ask for our daily bread to feed us everyday. This food is not only for our stomach but also for our emotional, mental and spiritual needs. Whatever our religion is, we ask that to our God. In this story, we will discuss the deeper meaning and purpose of our daily need of the food for the soul.

It is very important for us to deeply understand who is truly feeding us our daily needs. Many people don’t succeed but face failures in life because they do not extend their faith beyond their traditional beliefs. If we can only determine who really is responsible and always there for us to guide and nourish our lives, we can live with success, greatness and fulfillment. For our enlightenment, let us reflect on the following phrases: Read more

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

Management tips: Listening to your employees

Listening to employees plays a very important role in maintaining their morale and commitment to you (as their boss) and to your company (as their organization). Accordingly, if you are an employer or a manager, you should listen very well to your employees. Of course, most of managers do listen to their subordinates. This is a common employer–employee practice. But the question is…what is the proper way of listening to your employees? Is mere lending your ears to your employees enough? The answer is no – it’s not enough! Read more

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