by Caroline | Jul 1, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Management, Non profit HR
I’ve been on a rant lately, about the trendy topic of managers being extraneous. If I had to guess where this perennial nonsense came from, I’d have to say it comes from entrepreneurs who can’t really deal with the fact that their cultures have to change as their...
by Caroline | Jun 25, 2015 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting, teamwork
About the same time Abraham Maslow was introducing his hierarchy of needs, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom created another graduated triangle known as Bloom’s taxonomy. Bloom’s taxonomy looked at higher and higher levels of intellectual functioning, starting...
by Caroline | Jun 17, 2015 | Telecommuting, company culture, management
It’s June! The wonderful month when all your employees are trying to go on vacation or get married and you need an intern to fill in the holes. Unfortunately, if you are just now thinking about this, you may have missed the boat. A lot of companies start thinking...
by Caroline | Jun 10, 2015 | Company Culture, Management, Non profit HR
I read this fun fact lately in the Society for Human Resources Management’s magazine: Nine percent of HR managers believe that the employees in the companies they work for know what their benefits are. Nine percent! That means 91 percent of employees don’t understand...
by Caroline | May 27, 2015 | Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting
Almost everybody underestimates the importance of a job description. Most people, from what I can gather, tend to think of it like filling out a template. “We need a __________ with _________years experience who can __________. The ideal candidate will have...
