When you bring new employees on board, the first thing you want them to understand is what you are giving to them for their efforts. […]

The common misconception floating around most employers’ minds is that all their employees just swarm around higher appraisals and salaries like bees to a honeypot. But that is a farfetched ideal which doesn’t really resonate with most workers.

Today the office space has been transformed entirely from the ground up, and these transformations have also overhauled the expectations your employees generally have of you. Here are the X things which employees need from the workplace.

Respect

That is a fundamental need of […]

According to a study conducted by CIPD – an authoritative body on HR and people management – a rising trend of disconnect between senior managers and employees at the workplace has been observed. An alarming 1 in 3 employees have reported that they do not trust their senior managers very much, and instead relay all their concerns to colleagues and their immediate supervisors.

The mentality of ‘us and them’ has seeped into many offices and has the effect of choking motivational […]

The world is becoming increasingly competitive which has made it extremely important for employees to go the extra mile and overexert themselves to meet the client’s epectations. Managers and employers ask their employees to take on some extra responsibility and time, and out of the sheer desire to not let their boss down, employees begin to push themselves over the edge and actually show improved productivity and results.

For a short time period however.

Human resource professionals refer to this phenomenon as […]

Not all employees will be happy with office policies and not everyone will enjoy the assignment they’ve been given to complete. This negativity will eventually seep into the rest of your workplace and create a toxic environment. At times employees realize that it’s them who contributes towards the problem, and usually back down.

At other times, it requires a determined effort by employers and HR managers to address the negativity. Usually having a sit-down with the employee will take care of […]

Believe it or not but there is such a thing as bad employee benefits. Employers try so hard to ensure that their employee benefits package is an all encompassing one, that they begin to offer benefits which their staff don’t really want, are counterintuitive to their task and actually serve to demotivate and decrease engagement levels at the workplace.

It’s not about the quantity of the benefits as much as it is about the quality and desirability of the rewards.  Benefits […]