Orientation and Onboarding

Orientation and onboarding are two activities that will set the tone for the balance of an employee’s line on the job with this employer. It is a common belief that the first 90 days of a worker’s experience on a…

Employment Offer

Employment Offer An employment offer should include a start date, wage, or salary (in weekly or monthly amount62), benefits, job title, work location, name of supervisor, restatement that the offer is made under an “employment at will” understanding, and any…

Talent Acquisition

This is SHRM’s definition: “Talent Acquisition encompasses the activities involved in building and maintaining a workforce that meets the needs of the organization.” Talent acquisition involves all the HR strategies and processes that are involved in attracting, recruiting, and selecting…

What are Porter’s Five Forces?

Each employer organization has pressures from both internal and external sources. Those pressures impact the competitiveness the organization will be able to apply to the world in which it operates. Porter first published his suggestion that these five forces are…

HR Strategic Planning

Here is SHRM’s BoCK definition: “HR Strategic Planning involves the activities necessary for developing, implementing, and managing the strategic direction required to achieve organizational success and to create value for stakeholders.” All career levels of HR are expected to support…

The False Claims Act (1863)

During the Civil War, people were selling defective food and arms to the Union military. This law, sometimes referred to as the Lincoln Law, prohibits such dishonest transactions. It prohibits making and using false records to get those claims paid.…

SMART goal

SMART goal setting stands for the following: • Specific Know exactly what you want to accomplish. Goals must be well-defined. They must be clear and unambiguous. • Measurable Have a yardstick to measure the specific intention. • Attainable Make the…

How to defining Mission, Vision, and Values?

According to SHRM, mission, vision, and values can be defined as follows: • Mission Mission is a concise explanation of the organization’s reason for existence. It describes the organization’s purpose and its overall intention. The mission statement supports the vision…

What is the GE-McKinsey Nine-Box Matrix?

A systematic approach for the decentralized corporation to determine where best to invest its cash. Rather than rely on each business unit’s projections of its future prospects, the company can judge a unit by two factors that will determine whether…