To understand leadership at its most basic level, consider a group of individuals otherwise unconnected with each other who want to accomplish some common purpose. The homeless people mentioned in the introduction who come to Camp Runamuck want to be [...]
Sexual harassment is any unwanted sexual behavior that creates an intimidating or hostile work environment. This conduct isn’t just inappropriate; it’s illegal. Legal definition According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, [...]
While most of your questions should be competency-based, there are four other types also considered effective: open-ended, hypothetical, probing, and close-ended questions. Open-Ended Questions By definition, open-ended questions require fall, multiple-word responses. The answers generally lend themselves to discussion and [...]
For maximum effectiveness, all interviews should consist of five stages: rapport-building, introductory, core, confirmation, and closing. Each has a specific purpose and should take up an approximate percentage of the interview. Rapport-Building This stage represents a scant but important 2 [...]
Whether you’re an HR professional or a non-HR practitioner whose job requires interaction with applicants and employees, this article will help you determine those situations that are best handled via interviews, as well as identify those skills needed to achieve [...]
Don grabbed a pile of order forms and headed toward the loading truck on the warehouse floor. The morning strategy meeting had just broken up and he could hear his younger workers buzzing behind him, “No way! What does the [...]
The first part of this article can be found here: The Fourteenth Generation’s Fourteen Expectations It’s good to know what your Gen Y employees expect. But how are you going to meet those expectations so you can maximize your emerging [...]
When you meet gen Yers, in interviews or team meetings, behind the store counter or in the cubicle next to yours, what should you expect? Granted that on an individual level Gen Yers can be quite different from one another, [...]
The Seven Traits of the Worst Managers MARCI, A MANAGER at SubStandard Insurance Company, marched into the open office area of the claims department, a stack of reports in her arms. She ignored the staffers along her heated path to [...]
You would think the mainstream media had learned a lesson from its early stereotype of Gen Xers as slackers and cynical mopes; but judging from most of its coverage of Generation Y, it did not. Gen Yers are typically portrayed [...]
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