article thumbnail

Building An HR Department: A Step-By-Step Guide

HR Tech Girl

Building an human resources department encompasses hiring for various key roles covering hiring, compliance, compensation management, and administration. HR departments have five principal functions: meeting staffing needs, employee compensation, employee benefits, performance assessment and appraisal, and law compliance.

article thumbnail

Performance Management During COVID

Affinity HR Group

One persistent challenge is effective performance management, including performance appraisals and disciplinary action. . Performance management suffers from distance, reduced face-to-face interactions, changing job duties, and increased absences. Time to look for alternatives.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Cafe Classic: Excessively Successful Incentives

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: In this Classic cautionary tale, Jim Brennan (using the 2016 Wells Fargo incentive disaster as his beginning "case in point") reminds us of how easily even reward plans designed with the best intentions can misfire. The only thing worse than an incentive that doesn’t work is one that works all too well.

article thumbnail

What Is Human Resources?

Analytics in HR

As a department, it is responsible for managing HR activities from recruitment and onboarding, compensation and benefits, learning and development, performance management, and employee relations to separation or retirement. Can boost employee morale by effectively managing conflicts, concerns, and grievances.

article thumbnail

5 Ways Employee Recognition Software Pays for Itself

Kazoo

One transportation company used Kazoo to give retention bonuses and incentivize cost-saving behavior and saved more than $700,000 in the first year. Employee Recognition Software Speeds Compliance Training Participation. With a small incentive, the number of employees who took a health risk assessment shot up 9X.

article thumbnail

Best HR Practices for Your MedSpa Business Source

Hppy

Administrative roles: How would you ensure compliance with healthcare regulations in a Medspa environment? You must: Be supportive: Consider using a performance management system to understand how your team is performing and if they need training, assistance, or motivation. It can be commission-based.

article thumbnail

Excessively Successful Incentives

Compensation Cafe

The only thing worse than an incentive that doesn’t work is one that works all too well. Wells Fargo is just the latest company to be ethically embarrassed and financially distressed by a fiasco involving excessively motivational incentives. The moral hazard problem is not industry-specific or even an issue about incentives.