About Human Resources: 6 Tips to Speed Up Hiring; Performance Appraisals

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Human Resources Human Resources Employ People Manage People Succeed at Work From Susan M. Heathfield, your Guide to Human Resources Vol. 13 No. 17 - ISSN: 1533-3698 February 9, 2012 Dear People: Want to know what will help you stay competitive when you recruit as an employer of choice? Perks and benefits can help you attract and retain superior employees, even when a pay raise is not possible. Accountemps, a provider of staffing services for temporary accounting, finance and bookkeeping professionals, conducted a recent survey that zeroed in on perks employees want. Read more... Do you know that I write a new blog post every day? Check out the blog in the center column on my home page. Comments, questions, suggestions? Email Me. Please forward this newsletter, in its entirety, to your colleagues, coworkers and friends, because you want to add value to their work and lives. Regards and wishing you and yours the best this weekend, Susan 6 Tips to Speed Up Hiring Recruitment of employees is time consuming and keeps HR staff from other priority contributions. Here are six ways to speed up hiring so you can invest the saved time in activities such as employee engagement and retention. You can speed up hiring with these six tips. 6 Top Hiring Process Trends Checklist for Success in Hiring Employees See More About:  hiring employees  recruiting employees  hiring mistakes 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. It is incongruent with the values-based, vision-driven, mission-oriented, participative work environments favored by forward thinking organizations today. Read more... Why Organizations Do Performance Evaluation Where Managers Go Wrong With Performance Appraisals See More About:  performance appraisals  performance management  performance measurement What Makes a Manager a Bad Boss? Bad bosses are a perennially popular topic on this site. I think that the topic of a bad boss resonates with everyone because we have all had a bad boss at one time or another during our working lives. But, whatever made your manager a bad boss? Here's everything you need for dealing with a bad boss plus reader comments that are amazing. Bad to the Bone: Dealing With a Bad Boss What Makes a Bad Boss - Bad? See More About:  bad bosses  bullying  dealing with difficult people Employee Motivation: Off-Topic Lists It's a perfectly gorgeous, warm winter day where I am. Employees are planning vacations and selling available tickets to winter and spring sporting events. The soccer team needs a new organizer since the current guy is relocated to Europe as a company evangelist and needs to pass the torch. People are looking for colleagues to go in on purchases of sides of beef. How do I know all of this? 5 Factors Every Employee Wants From Work 7 Ways to Foster Employee Motivation - Today See More About:  employee motivation  motivating work environments  workplace culture Human Resources Ads Human Resources Hiring Employee Performance Employee Evaluation Recruitment Process Featured Articles Use Training for Employee Motivation and Retention Become a Sage Legal Issues Related to Electronic Medical Records Storage? Use Performance Management to Help Employees Succeed Mental Prep for an Internal Job Interview Create Your Personal Vision Statement   More from About.com Top 10 Skin Myths How do you know the information and advice you get about your skin is true? Start with this article, which debunks some of the the most persistent myths out there. More> Living with Infertility Infertility is extremely difficult emotionally, and it's easy to start feeling overwhelmed. Here are 10 ways to cope and keep infertility from taking over your life. More> This newsletter is written by: Susan M. Heathfield Human Resources Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Human Resources newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2012 About.com   Must Reads Human Resources Basics, Careers, Jobs Free Human Resources Policies, Samples Human Resources: Job Interview Tips Human Resources Job Descriptions Top 10 Human Resources Tough Questions   Follow me on: Advertisement