Human Resources Protects The Employer

December 29, 2009 | Comments Off

“We are From Human Resources, And We Are Here to Help”
For a company to work well, everyone should be willing to help each other. That is for granted. And most of the time Human Resources can help you: they can help you change your health plan from a PPO to an HMO [...]

Some people tell me that their employee is taking advantage of them in a recession. It may well be true – an employee value may have been diminished due to availability of cheaper, unemployed resources.
However, my first question to those people who tell me of their employers plans to pay them less or to [...]

The Working Hard Myth

December 9, 2009 | 1 Comment

There is a mis-conception that hard work will equal higher pay. I do believe that hard work is a necessary condition for higher pay, but it is not a sufficient condition. Otherwise, miners and loggers would get better pay. (Although they do get better pay than a McDonalds employee).
The key is _value_. [...]