|
|
Basic
Skills: Workplace Management (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
|
What
is the role of work management in business? What are the
tips for development of workplace management skill?
|
|
Workplace
management is is the skill that is part
of ability to execute group of basic skills. Workplace
management is the ability to manage tasks in order
to conduct business processes. Work management is important for
all positions within all functions...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
Oct 2009 |
|
|
|
|
What
is the workplace ergonomics? How much workplace
ergonomics influences work process and
productivity?
|
|
At
the beginning of 18th century doctors started to realize
that workers, after being at certain posture for a
longer period of time, are having a certain
muscular and skeletal problems. Research done
during the past 20 years has shown that there is
connection between specific working position and
frequent injuries...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
Oct 2009 |
|
|
|
|
What
is the role of judgement in business? What are the
tips for development of judgement skill?
|
|
Judgement
is the skill that is part
of Ability to execute group of basic skills.
Judgement is the ability to conclude based on
facts, in order to
make make further steps. Judgement is important for managerial
and executive positions within
all functions...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
Sep 2009 |
|
|
|
|
What
is the role of decision making in business? What are the
tips for development of contingency decision
making skills?
|
|
Decision
making is the skill that is part
of Ability to execute group of basic skills.
Decision making
is the ability to conclude based on facts and make
the consequent decision, in order to make progress
of situation. Contingency Planning
is primary important for managerial
positions within all functions. Decision making
is necessary for the business in order to make
adjustments to new situations. The decision can be proven
to be right or wrong, but the worst situation is one
without decision at all...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
Aug 2009 |
|
|
|
|
What
is the Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs? What
is the relation of a working environment and
employee motivation with the Maslow's hierarchy of
needs?
|
|
In
order to understand the full scope of complexity of
human motivation, Abraham Maslow developed theory of
hierarchy of needs. This hierarchy of needs, also
called Maslow's hierarchy of needs, or simply
Maslow's theory, is trying to
group the various motivators in different groups.
These groups of hierarchy of needs starts with the
basic needs, like breathing and survival, until the
top level needs like morale or creativity...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
Aug 2009 |
|
|
Basic
Skills: Contingency Planning (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
|
What
is the role of contingency planning in business? What are the
tips for development of contingency planning
skills?
|
|
Contingency
Planning is the skill that is part
of Ability to plan group of basic skills.
Contingency Planning
is the ability to create a back up plans that needs
to serve in case that primary planning is unable to
be conducted. Contingency Planning
is important for different
positions and functions...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
Aug 2009 |
|
|
Basic
Skills: Planning and Organizing (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
|
What
is the role of planning in business? What are the
tips for development of planning and organizing
skills?
|
|
Planning
and Organizing is is the skill that is part
of Ability to plan group of basic skills. Planning
is the ability to conceive, develop and implement
plans with purpose of accomplishing short and long
term goals.
Planning
and organizing is important for different
positions and functions...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
July 2009 |
|
|
Basic
Skills: Opportunity Assessment (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
|
What
is the role of opportunity assessment in business? What are the
tips for development of opportunity assessment?
|
|
Opportunity
Assessment is the skill that is part
of Ability to analyze group of basic skills of
employees.
Opportunity
Assessment is important for different positions, from
commercial manager, to general manager...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
July 2009 |
|
|
Basic
Skills: Analysis and Information Gathering (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
|
What
is the role of analysis and information gathering
in business? What are the
tips for development of analysis and information
gathering?
|
|
Analysis
and Information Gathering is the skill that is part
of Ability to analyze group of basic skills.
Analytics
is important for various range of positions, from
logistic planner, to general manager...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
June 2009 |
|
|
|
|
What
are the methods of communication to employees? Why
is the Team Briefing one of the most effective
methods of communication?
|
| Team
Briefing is formal periodical communication of
important business events and indications that are
supposed to give basic understanding to the
employees about performance of their company...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
June 2009 |
|
|
Basic
Skills: Strategic Thinking (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
|
What
is the role of Strategic Thinking? What are tips
tips for development of Strategic Thinking?
|
Strategic
Thinking is the part of Ability to Lead group of
basic skills. This skill is
primarily managerial skill. The importance of this
skills grows with the rank within hierarchy...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
June 2009 |
|
|
Basic
Skills: Coaching and People Development (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
|
What
is the Coaching and People Development? What are the behavioral
indicators of Coaching and People Development?
|
| Coaching
and People Development are the part of Ability to
Lead group of Basic Skill, along with Change
Management and Strategic Thinking. This skill is
primarily managerial skill, but is not exclusively
related to managerial positions... |
| Read
More |
Posted:
June 2009 |
|
|
Basic
Skills: Change Management (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
|
What
is the Change Management? What are the behavioral
indicators of Change Management?
|
| Change
management is a structured approach to
transitioning individuals, teams, and
organizations from a current state to a desired
future state. The Change Management includes both
organizational change management processes and
individual change management models. The
Definition within this article is referred to
individual Change Management...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
May 2009 |
|
|
|
|
What
are the Basic Skills? What is the difference
between Basic and Technical Skills?
|
| Every position within organization requires a
certain skills and competencies. Skills are necessary
prerequisite for a professional conduction of work
tasks. Without proper skills the outcome of some
working activity is very easy to be a failure.
Therefore for every position there should be a
skills requirement established, in order to have a
proper basis for selection of employees, skills
assessment and development of skills...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
May 2009 |
|
|
|
|
What
is the Human Resources Outsourcing? What is the
Difference between employment and outsourcing of
Human Resources? What are advantages and
disadvantages of human resources outsourcing?
|
| Hiring the external agency that deals with
human resources outsourcing, that will "land"
employees of needed qualification, is a easier way
than giving the employee contract to every
individual engaged in business activity. Actually,
there is no real employment by the company, since
the company is renting and paying for the given
service of human resource outsourcing, instead of the employment
salary...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
Jan 2009 |
|
|
|
|
What
is the Employee Motivation? What factors are
motivating employees?
|
| Employee
Motivation
is an element that extensively determines the final
outcome of some activity. Without proper employee motivation all
capabilities and experience of an individual are in
vain. Motivation is like the fuel in the engine...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
Nov 2008 |
|
|
Sources
of Motivation: Workplace Motivation (B)
by
Laurus Nobilis
|
Where
the Workplace Motivation comes from? What are
Employee Motivation
enablers? What are Workplace Motivation blockers?
|
| Did
you ever asked yourself why is sometimes difficult to
accomplish some task, even if the prize is good? On the
other hand sometimes you are able to do something very
hard and for long time, even you will not have direct
material benefit...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
Oct 2008 |
Modified:
Nov 2008 |
|
|
|
What
are Presentation Skills? What is necessary for
successful presenting? Can you be a good
presenter?
|
| Everybody is in the position to be a presenter at
some point. At school, at the university, during the
business presentation or even you can be a professional
presenter. Now we come to common problem for most of the
people. This problem is "Stage Fright"
combined with lack of technical skills of presenting...
|
| Read
More |
Posted:
Sept 2008 |
|
|
Stress
Management: Coping With Stress (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
|
What
is the
Stress?
What are the means to fight stress? What are
Binaural Beats and how
can they relief the stress?
|
| In
the contemporary life the word "Stress"
can be heard very often in every field of life:
school, university, sport, at work. The last one,
at work stress is very common in most of the
professions today... |
| Read
More |
Posted:
July 2008 |
Modified:
Aug 2008 |
|
Development: Business Coaching For High Performance (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
|
What
is the difference between Training and Coaching?
What is the role of Coach?
What is the successful communication during the
Coaching?
|
| Coaching
is a skill which can be applied to unlock
others’ potential to maximize their performance.
Coaching is a form of on-the-job learning that
uses work or any other live situation to provide
opportunities for planned development and
guidance.... |
| Read
More |
Posted:
Jun 2008 |
Modified:
Nov 2008 |
|
|
|
What
is the main goal of Job Description? How to write
a good Job Description?
|
| The
role of the Human Resource Department is to find,
employ and train the adequate candidate for a
specific position. Also, HR with cooperation of
relevant department must define parameters
required for specific position... |
| Read
More |
Posted:
Jun 2008 |
Updated:
Sep 2008 |
|
|
|
What
is the Employee Turnover? How it is defined? What
is Regretted Turnover?
|
| Employee Turnover is the number of permanent employees leaving the company within the reported period versus the number of actual Active Permanent employees on the last day of the previous reported period (physical
headcount) ... |
| Read
More |
Posted:
Mar 2008 |
Modified:
Nov 2008 |
|
|
|
How do we define talents?
How do we recognize talents? Wow do we develop
them?
|
| So
how to recognize talent, how to develop them, how to
keep them, how to utilize them in a best way? First, be
open to everybody that deserves your attention, Talents
are not just those who write nice CV and try to be
noticed. Sometimes real talents are not that visible... |
| Read
More |
Posted:
Nov 2007 |
Modified:
Nov 2008 |
|
|
|
How to reward in a way
that motivate toward better results? How the
employee rewards system should be built? What is the
Employee Rewards System Matrix?
|
| What
motivates the people mostly in their job? There are many
surveys conducted among employees, anonymous of course,
the results are different, but the common under all of
them is that among top ten motivators, the Salary is
almost at the bottom... |
| Read
More |
Posted:
Nov 2007 |
Modified:
Nov 2008 |
|
Employee
Performance Appraisal
(E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
|
What is
the Employee Performance Appraisal?
What is the Employee Performance Appraisal Cycle? What are Core and
Functional Skills?
|
| Appraisal
of employee is the periodical process of reviewing
his/her performance in specific areas versus predefined
standards. This appraisal is initiated, supervised and
collected by HR, but essentially is conducted by
supervisor with his subordinate... |
| Read
More |
Posted:
Nov 2007 |
Modified
Nov 2008 |
|
|
|
What is the purpose of
employee
induction? What is the Induction
program? What is the Induction program matrix?
|
| Every
newcomer to company should pass training program.
Normally, first day(s) are dedicated to induction program. Induction
program in it's nature is basic
overview of the company to newcomers. It does not go too
deeply into the matter of every department and every
position, but it has intention to bring big picture in
front of a newcomer... |
| Read
More |
Posted:
Nov 2007 |
Modified:
Nov
2008 |
|
|
|
When
does
the Employment process starts? How is selection of
candidates done? What are essential questions
during the interview?
|
| The process of employment starts with identification of
need. The need can be caused by new business need ( a
new positions planned in a business plan for a next year
). Also it can be filling in of the vacancies... |
| Read
More |
Posted:
Nov 2007 |
Modified:
Nov 2008 |
|
About HR (B)
by
Laurus Nobilis
|
What is HR? What is HR’s role in the
organization?
Why is Employment process that important?
|
| Beside
the capital and technology, Human Resources became the
most important factor of working process today. People!
Yes, People. Without them all of investments and
technology is useless if there is nobody to run it and
to create a new value... |
| Read
More |
Posted:
Nov 2007 |
Modified:
Dec 2007 |
|
|
|
|
|
