Category: Human Resources

Maybe you’re a successful small company – maybe it’s just you! – and you need more hands on deck to keep up with demand; maybe you’ve grown to the point where you need expertise in a set of skills your current crew just doesn’t have. Do you add a new employee (or whole team of…

Hiring is time-consuming and can be expensive. Hiring the wrong candidates can be one of the most damaging mistakes for your business, not only in financial terms but also for your reputation, not to mention your wasted time. But hiring the right candidates – people who are not only up to the tasks you give…

Put simply, workplace diversity is about how different the people in your workforce are from one another in terms of race, gender, ethnic group, sexuality, disability, education level, socio-economic background and more. While most forward-thinking business minds recognize that it is both sensible and right for a company to reflect the full spectrum of the…

Listen to any conversation between disgruntled coworkers and one of them will threaten to take the matter to human resources. Sometimes that’s the appropriate route; sometimes it isn’t: but such is the culture of misunderstanding about the role of HR. In many workplaces employees – and even business owners – can find themselves confused. We…