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Consequences and Costs of Stress
Today’s typical workplace expects quite a bit from its employees. In a climate of layoffs and downsizing, employees are typically expected to do “more with less”—that is, additional work for the same pay, often without updated resources and in a short amount o...
Introduction to Disciplinary Factors and Guidelines
What you’ll learn to do: Discuss disciplinary factors and guidelines We often think of discipline as a negative—a judgement. But discipline also has a positive connotation—for example, developing a positive practice or honing our abilities. And that is the po...
Introduction to Onboarding Employees
What you’ll learn to do: Explain the value of onboarding Onboarding isn’t standard operating procedure—but it should be. Indeed, effective onboarding provides continuity in engagement from selection through assimilation. In this section, we will define, discu...
Why It Matters: Onboarding, Training, and Developing Employees
Why learn about onboarding, employee training, and development and career management strategies? World Economic Forum (WEF) Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab sets the stage for this module in the Preface to WEF’s Future of Jobs 2018 Re...
Discussion: Employee Rights and Responsibilities
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Putting It Together: Employee Rights and Responsibilities
In the workplace, as in society, employees and employers have both rights and responsibilities. Federal, state and local laws afford employees a number of rights, including the right to control their financial (credit) information, the right to access their pe...
Formalizing Behavior Standards, Consequences, and Procedures
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss laws relating to employee rights Discuss disciplinary factors and guidelines Remember when you helped Freedom Inc., the rapidly-growing company that sold products with superabsorbent material for incontinence? Your brilliant decis...
Progressive Discipline
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss the progressive discipline process In order to avoid perceptions of arbitrary or discriminatory discipline, HR management should establish a progressive discipline policy and process. A critical implementation step: ...
The Purpose of Discipline
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss the purpose of discipline Every effective organization needs to establish, communicate and enforce standards of behavior and performance. Some employees will learn and adopt the organization’s standards as a matter...
Employment at Will Doctrine
LEARNING OUTCOMES Explain the Employment at Will Doctrine Identify exceptions to the Employment at Will Doctrine The at will employment doctrine states that employment is for an indefinite period of time and may be terminated by either the e...
Workplace Stress Management
Back in 1908, psychologists Robert Yerkes and John Dodson developed a theory about stress and performance. They proposed an “inverted-U” relationship between arousal and performance, crediting heightened states of arousal with optimum performance. At a certain...
Introduction to Employee-Employer Contracts
What you’ll learn to do: Discuss the employee-employer contractual relationship In the United States, the general rule is that employment is “at will.” In this section, we’ll discuss what that means for employers and employees, what the exceptions are and how...
Employee Behavior Outside of Work
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss laws related to employee behavior outside of the workplace Discuss laws related to employee social media use Federal laws related to employee behavior include the National Labor Relations Act (discussed below) and t...
Employee Information
LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss laws related to employee information Employee information is an area that is governed by federal, state and local laws. Key legislation includes the following: The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) The Drug-Fr...
Introduction to Laws and Employee Rights
What you’ll learn to do: Discuss laws relating to employee rights Legislation and associated court cases regarding employee rights should be monitored on an ongoing basis to remain abreast of (in compliance with) changes in employee rights and behavior respon...
Why It Matters: Employee Rights and Responsibilities
Why learn about rights and responsibilities of employees and their employers? In business it is often difficult to determine where one’s rights end and another’s responsibility begins. However, with increasing transparency, empowered workers, and the ability ...
Conclusion: Managing Stress and Emotions
Stress. It happens when an individual is confronted with an opportunity, constraint or demand related to what he or she desires, and for which the outcome is perceived to be both uncertain and important. Stress at a certain level is good and motivates producti...
Managerial Approaches to Stress Management
When we talked about individuals exercising time management techniques as a way of achieving a better work-life balance, we mentioned flexibility and the ability to allocate 50% of their day to the unpredictable, unplanned part of their days. Could managers be...
Organizational Approaches to Stress Management
In addition to careful job design and managing stifling company cultures, organizations are taking steps to help employees battle stress by offering programs, benefits and office “perks” that allow workers to make choices about managing stress as it best suits...
Benefits of Onboarding
LEARNING OUTCOMES Identify the benefits of onboarding Onboarding is the process of integrating a new employee into a company. Also referred to as organizational socialization, onboarding processes should be designed to familiarize new emplo...