How to Love Your Employees

Today's labor force is a new generation. How can we make them productive? This article provides solutions to motivating employees for management professionals.

Opening a Dollar Store - Minimize Merchandise Stocking Labor and Time

One of the challenges faced by every entrepreneur who is opening a dollar store is quickly and properly restocking the sales floor. It is soon obvious that as sales grow so too does the need to continually replace sold items. Restocking high quantities of merchandise requires proper timing of buying and lots of labor.

How To Balance Work And Home With Out Sacrificing One For The Other

How to have both, a quality operation and a happy and healthy home.

The Key to Effective Sales Incentives

One marketing strategy that does not seem to fail is sales incentive. And that's the reason why it is also one of the most common types of marketing strategy that is used to increase the profit of the business and even motivate employees to perform in the top of their game.

Management Or Labor - Which Will It Be

I once coined a phrase or saying that goes something like this: Every engineer should get his or her start in Arkansas as I did, cutting chicken necks. In that manner your peers will always marvel at how far you've come – or understand why you achieved so little.

Can a Husband and Wife be in Business Together?

Millions of small businesses are run by husband and wife teams. If you are in this group, this article is directed at you.

What is ACH?

An overview of ACH (Automated Clearing House) and how electronic funding can save your business money.

It's Official, the Employee's Eyes Have It Now

When discussions with your employee haven't netted the results you want, it's time to start making it clearer by recapping the discussion in writing. This protects you, but it's also a great way to ensure the employee understands the issues.

Supply Chain Risk Management: An Introduction

Risk management concepts have been around for several years since now, but they have generally been bounded to the financial or safety area. Today, the supply chain is where risk management is assuming a critical role, since it is where risk becomes most damaging for a company. Despite this, supply chain managers have so far kept on striving their efforts on efficiency gains, responding to the cost squeeze at the expense of increasing the risk of disruptions. This article provides a brief overview of some basic concepts related to Supply Chain Risk Managment (SCRM).

HR Needs It Signed on the Dotted Line

You've been having problems with your employees that haven't been resolved. It's time to escalate to written documentation designed to get your point across and protect the company.

Performance Improvement Countdown - 90, 89, 88...

It's a serious decision, but sometimes putting your employee on probation is the only way you can force performance improvement. Probation is often the employee's last chance and it needs to be handled well.

Employees - Your Best Resource or Biggest Threat?

Small employers often feel they can afford to be exempt from complying with employment laws because the government has its hands full just with the larger employers. However, employees can easily give the government a reason to look your way.

Road Map For Green Belts

Much has been heard about the driving force behind Six Sigma implementations – the Black Belts. But what about the Green Belts? This article introduces these talented professionals and how they make the project run behind the scenes.

360 Degree Feedback - Legal Pitfalls and Dangers?

Before you use 360 feedback techniques you should be aware that there may be legal risks and implications particularly if you use 360 feedback for the wrong things, or use it in ways that are legally questionable. Here's a brief overview.

Back To The Future – The Love We Once Had

Why falling 'out of love' with your business sentences you to failure.