Entries Tagged Employee Relations

Here’s an interesting factoid to chew on the next time your organization loses a great employee: Contrary to popular belief, it’s usually...

For better or for worse, social media like Twitter and Facebook have in many respects replaced the venerable office watercooler as the...

For many of us, accepting criticism gracefully is a lot like trying to lose weight: It’s a great thing to strive for...

My team is great. We haven’t had a safety incident in years, we haven’t had a safety violation in months, and our...

Let’s face it: Just about everyone believes they’re an effective communicator. But as the famous playwright George Bernard Shaw once noted, the...

In 1995, Freese and Nichols Inc. – a prominent water and wastewater engineering and architectural firm based in Fort Worth, Texas –...

The annual employee performance review is as ingrained in corporate culture as coffee breaks and weekly department meetings. But some observers see...

Nobody likes to be fired, and very few of us enjoy firing others. Nevertheless, there are times in which this most definitive...

There’s no question that so-called Millennials – the demographic cohort that’s generally defined as those born between 1980 and 1995 – get...

“Keep the group in the loop.” That’s the motto of the Evansville, Ind., collections team and it assures that everyone knows what...

People can say some pretty crazy things to get off work. Admit it, you may even have been tempted yourself. And with...

Can you count on your municipal sewer and water employees to always act in a professional manner – even when “no one”...

Odds are that if you’re reading this at work, you’re going to be interrupted before you finish the article. As surely as...

The odds are that you’ll see pigs fly before you ever discover a totally jerk-free workplace. Like the proverbial rotten bad apple...