Athletic coaches will call a team huddle the minute they realize that they need to make a change in either the players on the field or the play being used. They make changes on the fly to produce the ...

One bad hire can cost a company 30 percent of the employee’s first-year earnings, while some estimate the cost between $240,000 and $850,000 per employee.

Many high-performing teams look stable on the surface. But engagement is quietly breaking down, even in environments where ...

When those expectations are never clearly explained, performance conversations and eventual terminations can feel unfair on ...

As I reported in last week’s column, a stunning number of U.S. employees feel less happy in their jobs than did employees in years past. More than 60% of U.S. employees admit being disengaged at work, ...

How can the word “problem” be a good thing? Here, a small business owner with 15 years of personnel management under her belt shares how the hard-to-manage team members are actually the ones who make ...

If any of your IT staffers need to improve their performance, tackle the problem early on before the situation escalates. Few managers want to get to the point where they have to dismiss an employee.

Small-business owners juggle competing concerns when they're dealing with employees' mental health issues, and it can be particularly difficult for the many owners who don't have a dedicated human ...

Dear Annie: Not quite 20 years ago, I worked for a local authority mental health agency with about 650 employees. I worked in the human resources department and knew all the employees by name because ...

Two new studies find that leaders are less likely to empower followers who raise concerns about workplace decisions, even though these “challenging voice” employees play a critical role in ...

Thousands of Oregon state employees are continuing to experience payroll problems three months after the state rolled out its new system. At least 2,151 employees were paid incorrectly March 1, with ...

I recently wrote an article asking why employee recognition is so big a problem. A key piece of evidence: As I mentioned in my earlier post, the one issue that recurred in literally every employee ...