Tag Archives: HR
Disability In The Workplace: INSETA Awards Highlight The Importance Of Integration
The Insurance Sector Education and Training Authority (INSETA) National Disability Awards, held in White River on 3 December, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, saw the announcement of winners in seven categories and highlighted the importance of integrating persons with disabilities into the South African workforce. People with disabilities were honoured at the 4th [...]
Hiring Bounty – Recruitment As It Should Be
Crowdsourcing recruitment represents an enormous leap forward in an often out dated traditional recruitment industry. With a massive reduction in costs to clients, a significant improvement in the quality of candidates and the speed at which the position can be filled Hiring Bounty is forging a new path for the industry. Hiring Bounty is an [...]
Four Ways To Keep Up With Payroll And Tax Law
For any business with multiple employees, payroll management is an aspect that requires scrupulous attention to detail. No other business function has as adverse an impact on employee job satisfaction and overall business expense as the incorrect handling of payroll. This is why many businesses choose to make use of sophisticated payroll software solutions or [...]
HR To Step Up To Strategy
Increasing employee turnover is shining a spotlight on the need for HR to step up its game and integrate its operations with the strategic goals of the business; but research shows this is not yet being put into practice. In 1996 management guru David Ulrich coined the term “HR business partner”, saying that HR must [...]
Creating A Corporate Culture
In any company structure, individuals with unique viewpoints, values and standards are required to work together in one environment. Employees come from various backgrounds, ethnicities and classes that influence the manner in which they choose to approach their work and their workmates. A common misconception held by company leaders is that their stated values and [...]
Want To Cut Costs? Keep Your People!
Successful companies know that they are only as good as their employees. Yet despite this, investing in policies to keep employees is still seen by many as an optional extra, not a critical factor influencing their bottom line – though research indicates it shouldn’t be that way. Samantha Crous, country manager of the CRF Institute, [...]
Project Management: A Necessity In Any Industry?
In today’s tough market conditions, ensuring that a company’s resources are utilised in a way that maximises efficiency is critical to its success and profitability. The increasing complexity of the modern manufacturing and service industries has meant that a specialised approach to project planning, resource allocation and cost management is necessary to avoid waste and [...]
Three Specific Ways To Keep Employees Happy And Loyal
In her recently published article entitled Three Innovative Ways to Reduce Staff Turnover, Amy-Jane Louw offered some great general ideas for reducing employee turnover rates for small businesses in South Africa these days. Especially poignant were her assessments of the manger’s role within a business, as well as the importance of opening lines of communication [...]
Happier Employees Benefit All Of Us
Better working environments can reduce absenteeism, saving the economy billions per year. The country’s best employers boast a 46% lower rate of absenteeism than the average South African company, recent research has shown. Their staff are healthier, and work more often, for longer. The Best Employers Certification Index, which is carried out by the CRF [...]
Three Innovative Ways To Reduce Staff Turnover
The cost of running a business in South Africa today is skyrocketing, and it’s the small businesses that are really feeling the pinch. One of the primary reasons for this setback is that small businesses suffer personnel losses more heavily. Hiring and training new staff is a costly enterprise, with owners stating that the single [...]
