Managing Employees and HR Articles

Happy employees and satisfied customers are two of the invaluable benefits of an effective incentive and recognition program
By Chris Freeburn

Not long ago, an engineering and manufacturing company on the East Coast underwent the lengthy and complicated process of earning ISO certification. A team of nearly 50 employees from the company worked for more than eighteen months on the difficult project, often staying late and coming in on weekends. Finally, upon the successf...

Can you keep employees motivated and compensated without annual salary increases?
By Reed Richardson

With workers harder to come by, salaries seem destined to keep rising. But one way to offset this expense is to consider opening up more of your employees to performance bonuses rather than simply handing out cost-of-living increases every year.

This trend is increasingly popular across the business spectrum. A Hewitt Associates study from September found th...