BlogNotions HR Newsletter August, 2011

August 15, 2011 • Automating Incentive Compensation for Increased Productivity and Immediate Cost Reduction • Making HR Processes Smoother: Disciplinary Actions • Guide to Creating Company Benefit Plan Dan Erwin Dan Erwin is a specialist in performance improvement who has coached more than 400 officers, executives and managers from top American corporations. See full bio David Zinger David Zinger, M.Ed., is an employee engagement writer, educator, speaker, coach, and consultant. See full bio Steve Bruce Stephen D. Bruce is a PHR-certified, award-winning author with many years of experience covering HR topics. See full bio Terrence Seamon Terrence "Terry" Seamon is a Training and Organization Development consultant. A coach, blogger, and transitionist, Terry is ready to help individuals, teams, and organizations facilitate change to achieve results. See full bio If you are interested in becoming a contributing thought leader, please contact us. How Engagement Produces Higher Profits by Terrence Seamon Recently on a discussion board at LinkedIn, Information Technology executive Jackie Barretta started a conversation about the connection between highly engaged workers and profits. She asked: “Why does employee engagement lead to higher profitability? Please see my research http://bit.ly/pjuqU4. I think this can help us create stronger organizations. Let me know if you agree or have [...] Read More | Comments ‘Fire the Slugs’ – That’s Good Turnover by Steve Bruce “Fire the slugs,” says management expert Jeff Cortes. That’s good turnover and also it’s good for retention – all of your other employees have been wondering when you would act. “There’s good and bad turnover,” says Cortes, author of the book, No Nonsense Retention, which he characterizes as a collection of no-nonsense ways to retain your [...] Read More | Comments When and How to Outsource Human Resources Management Free Offer available for download. When and How to Outsource Human Resources Management discover opportunities for big efficiencies at small businesses. Download the full offer for free here. Employee Engagement Wisdom Gets Lost As It Never Stops by David Zinger Are you able to pause or come to a complete stop? Employee engagement never stops. People work everyday and the work on employee engagement never ceases. We are flooded with: Surveys, Tweets, Facebook entries, Google+ entries, LinkedIn updates, Employee Engagement Network contributions, Forums, Groups, Reports, White papers, Blog posts, News releases, Books, E-books, Videos, One thousand other streams of information. And yes, I am well aware that I am a big contributor to this [...] Read More | Comments When the Going Gets Tough, Will the Tough Really Get Going? by Dan Erwin You know the old proverb about toughness. And if you went to Sunday School, it took the form of “tribulation is good for you,” and you will not “suffer more than you are able to handle.” This powerful, religious and cultural strain of our Western belief system holds that high performance [...] Read More | Comments The BlogNotions HR Newsletter is brought to you by NetLine Corporation. About NetLine | Subscribe | www.blognotions.com NetLine Corporation, 750 University Avenue, Suite 200, Los Gatos, CA 95032 You are receiving this BlogNotions newsletter because you subscribed to it or because you opted-in to receive relevant email communications from NetLine and TradePub.com when requesting free business resources. If you no longer wish to receive email from NetLine's BlogNotions, please click here. To ensure delivery of your Blognotions newsletter, click here for whitelisting instructions. NOTE: This message was sent from an unmonitored e-mail address. Please do not reply to this message. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.