Editor's Pick
Discover a novel assessment technique to use in your employee management
- Published on 20 Mar 2014
- Tony Cohn
One of the greatest challenges many organisations face is the ability to predict, consistently and accurately, the ability of its workforce to deliver. This is also an ongoing challenge in any company's employee management practices, especially where communities are served across an extensive geographical areas. So for your company to achieve its goals and objectives, it's critically important that your hire people, with the right skills. It's also vital they have the appropriate potential, ability and interest add value to your business. So how can you find these people for your business? What assessment technique could you use?
Design your talent management strategy and don’t lose top talent: Part 1
- Published on 20 Mar 2014
- Natalie Maroun
One of the most urgent issues for organisations in their 2014 talent management strategy will be how leaders can effectively target, nurture and advance top talent in their organisations. Recent research by the global Centre for Talent Innovation (CTI) has shown that an inherently diverse workforce can be a powerful source of innovation because different individuals seem to be better attuned to the unmet needs of consumers or clients. So how can leaders leverage and develop diverse talent, in their talent management strategies, in 2014?
How to fit e-cruitment into your recruitment strategy
- Published on 19 Mar 2014
- Anja van Beek
Integrating e-cruitment into your company's recruitment strategy is possibly not as prevalent in South Africa as it is in other countries. According to an SA HR Recruitment Trend Survey that MCI Consultants conducted in 2013, 58% of organisations use social media as an integral part of their recruitment strategy. People have differing views on the value of e-cruitment and the secret is to ensure that as you engage with the different mediums, you build a large network of potential candidates. Read on to find out more about what we learned.
Put together a well-formulated grievance procedure…
- Published on 19 Mar 2014
- Peter McDermott
... And minimise dismissal in your company
Dissatisfaction among employees is a sad but unavoidable fact of business. It's in your interest to resolve grievances in-house before these become out of hand, expensive and possibly lead to dismissal. A well-crafted and implemented grievance procedure is the best way you can do this. Read on to find out how to manage your grievance procedure properly.
What to do when your employees’ personal lives interfere with their work lives
- Published on 18 Mar 2014
- Lia Marus
As a manager, you tread a very fine line between sympathising with your employees and getting the best you can out of them for the benefit of the business: if you put a put a foot wrong you risk damaging your working relationship – and not being able to fix it. So where do you strike the balance?
