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Saturday, June 18, 2011

About Human Resources: How Managers Motivate Employees

Dear People:

Do you have favorite interview questions? I'm a proponent of behavioral interview questions because they elicit information about how your potential employee has behaved in like situations in the past. These questions are stronger and less reminiscent of crystal ball gazing than questions that ask the candidate to predict how he or she might behave in the described situation in the future. At the same time, unusual interview questions can identify what's important to the candidate and whether he or she will fit the culture of your organization. Over time, anyone who interviews potential employees finds that certain interview questions help you select successful employees. Patterns of responses give you an historical perspective about how successful employees responded. See: Your Best Interview Questions

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How Managers Motivate Employees

What can managers do to motivate employees? The reality, when you talk about how to motivate employees, is that employees are motivated. The manager's challenge is to figure out how to tap into that motivation to accomplish work goals. Fortunately, the manager controls the key environmental factors necessary to motivate employees. The most significant factor is the manager's relationship with reporting employees. Read more...


Hiring the Right Employees Is Key

Who you hire has never been more important. With the economic downturn we are experiencing and the high unemployment rates, it's easy to begin thinking that no one is hiring employees. This couldn't be further from the truth. Employers are hiring employees and, with the number of people available... Read more.


Performance Appraisals Don't Work

Second only to firing an employee, managers cite performance appraisal as the task they dislike the most. This is understandable given that the process of performance appraisal, as traditionally practiced, is fundamentally flawed. Read more...


How to Make More Money

Work is about the money. Work only becomes not about the money when you have sufficient income - however you define sufficient income - to support your chosen life style. With sufficient money to live on, work can then become about making a difference, contribution, sharing an important mission, doing tasks you love, feeling important, making friends, gaining success, pleasing customers, and achievement. All of these goals, that define why people work, come into play when you make sufficient money.


 


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Susan M. Heathfield
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