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Aspire to Perfomance!

June192008

From previous experience, in small or big companies, profitable or not, it became obvious that success isn’t such a “big deal”. In the following, we want to uncover the equation of success, in terms of performance. Come to think of it, performance is connected firstly with self-praise. Praising you, in our opinion, isn’t bragging or [...]

Are Your Employees Faithful? Yes, Except When They’re Not!

June52008

What do you do when you see one of your employee’s CV active on a job specialized site? This depends on the reason why he did it. If you work in the HR department, you are, obviously, concerned. Eventually, you along with the company’s managers are responsible for the retention rate and the degree of [...]

How to elegantly receive feedback

June52008

Are you interested to know how others see your work? Do something as to make it easier for them to communicate this thing. And if they think that you will appreciate their answer, you will receive more than that. And that’s a good thing. Here’s how you can do it: – Control you defensive attitude. [...]

How to motivate the employees of a small company

May152008

Motivating means using methods or available resources as to convince a person to work more, better or even excel in what they do. If it’s proper made and brought to an optimal level, motivation represents a mean of improving company’s productivity. One of the simplest and non-expensive ways of motivation is acknowledgement of the well [...]

Unorganized and Incompetent Manager, Therefore Dangerous

May152008

Employees don’t approve of abusive superiors, but when it comes to incompetent managers, their tolerance is almost none. Abuse is mostly correlated with negative responses from the employees, like absenteeism and demotivation. Nevertheless, there is a stronger connection between manager’s incompetence and same negative reactions. Nobody stands a masterly and abusive boss, but as a [...]

Specific and Local in HR Management

April152008

Still being in the trial and error faze and being more influenced by the multinational company’s culture that came in Romania than the local tradition, HR native management has a series of local marked characteristics which aren’t always productive. Here are some of them: Strategist statute and the chair at the top management board are [...]

Myths about people in organizations

March242008

People represent unpredictable resources with a strong emotional charge. Their performances fluctuate sometimes conditioned by external and controllable factors, sometimes unconditioned, and their evaluation is strongly influenced by subjective aspects, no matter how well it is structured or organized. Did you ask yourself, as bosses or recruitment specialists if you truly are honest when judging [...]

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