Category Archives: cultural changes

“Best HR, Legal, Safety & Leadership Stuff I Read Last Week”

Posted on November 25, 2013 by mavity2012

I’m still working on how to summarize my large volume of Tweets of great material from EHS, TLNT, HBR and others. Until I come up with a better method, I’ll periodically prepare this sort of digest. I hope that my … Continue reading →

Posted in attitude/culture, cultural changes, employee engagement, employer policies, generational differences, management and leadership, safety programs, supervisor development | Tagged employee attitudes, employee safety, employer policies, generational differences, managing younger workers, Myers-Briggs, Reading, supervisor development, understanding your employees | Leave a comment

Should We Expect Happy Employees?

Posted on November 24, 2013 by mavity2012

I do not often think in terms of looking for “happiness” at work. My self-made World War II Vet dad raised me to focus on responsibility and to not expect easy roads. Nevertheless, is it unrealistic to talk about “happiness” … Continue reading →

Posted in aging workforce, attitude/culture, books and articles, cultural changes, employee engagement, employer policies, management and leadership | Tagged do happy employees generate more profits?is happiness necessary for employee engagement? | Leave a comment

Should Employers Conduct Employee Surveys?

Posted on November 6, 2013 by mavity2012

I recently read an article stating that over one-half of 250 HR respondents thought that the traditional employee survey is dead. Most respondents felt that the future of employer research was “qualitative” rather than “quantitative,” and 80% believe that mobile … Continue reading →

Posted in attitude/culture, cultural changes, employee engagement, employer policies, management and leadership, safety programs, safety technology and apps | Tagged do employee surveys work, employee attitude surveys for safety, how do employers get in trouble for employee attitude surveys, safety culture | Leave a comment

Are Meetings the Bane of Your Existence?

Posted on November 4, 2013 by mavity2012

I had not previously read posts by Ron Thomas, but based upon his recent TLNT post, “The Problems With Meetings? They Cost More Than They’re Really Worth,” Mr. Thomas is that rarest of leaders . . .: an individual with … Continue reading →

Posted in attitude/culture, cultural changes, employee engagement, generational differences, management and leadership | Tagged do less meetings, effectively using meetings, how to do less meetings, meetings are not a substitute for management and leadership, meetings waste time | Leave a comment

Pause Before Firing That Guy Objecting To A Work Practice By Quoting Misinterpreted Theology

Posted on October 17, 2013 by mavity2012

Eric Meyer posted a spot reminding us that even if the request seems weird, an employer has some level of duty to accommodate a religious practice. In this case, a mining employee objected to a bio metric scanning system involving his … Continue reading →

Posted in cultural changes, discipline and discharge, discrimination, whistleblower/retaliation | Tagged doesn't mean that an employee doesn't have a sincere religious belief at least triggering consideration of accomodation, just because it's wacky | Leave a comment

Customer Service and Workplace Safety

Posted on October 1, 2013 by mavity2012

I am writing this post as I sit on a bench in front of the Davidson, NC Homewood Suites. As I sat working on documents, I struck up a conversation with an employee, who was emptying the trash and straightening … Continue reading →

Posted in attitude/culture, cultural changes, employee engagement, hospitality, management and leadership, retail, supervisor development | Tagged customer service and safety, employee engagement and treating your employees right, purposeful customer service | Leave a comment

The Accidental Supervisor

Posted on September 13, 2013 by mavity2012

My longtime friend, Linwood Smith, V.P. Risk Management of T.A. Loving Company selected this title for a presentation he asked me to make at this week’s Carolinas AGC combined Annual Safety and Human Resources Conference. Linwood and I share several … Continue reading →

Posted in cultural changes, discipline and discharge, employer benefit plans, management and leadership, performance management, supervisor development | Tagged promoting supervisors into incompetence, the accidental supervisor, too little training for frontline supervisors | Leave a comment

“SINGLE SERVING HR”

Posted on September 4, 2013 by mavity2012

While reading Howard Risher’s insightful article, Why We Need To Hold Managers Responsible For Employee Performance, I realized that many of us treat HR like the “single serving friends,” Tyler Durden calls people he meets on planes and uses only one … Continue reading →

Posted in cultural changes, discipline and discharge, employer policies, management and leadership, performance management | Tagged manager involvement in performance management, performance management should be more than annual reviews, Single Serve HR, Tyler Durden applied to HR | Leave a comment

Tired Workers Cheat And Use Bad Judgment

Posted on July 17, 2013 by mavity2012

I have always assumed that exhaustion affects our judgment, makes us sloppy and unsafe, and more prone to anger. Behavioral research supports my assumptions. Perhaps our first wellness step should be a campaign to get employees to sleep . . … Continue reading →

Posted in aging workforce, attitude/culture, cultural changes, employee engagement, employer policies, management and leadership, wellness | Tagged employee self-control and sleep deprivation, ethics and lack of sleep, safety and lack of sleep, tired workers cheat and use bad judgment | Leave a comment

Is Employee Engagement A Fairy Tale?

Posted on July 16, 2013 by mavity2012

My answer is “no,” but the article below reminds us that we must develop “engagement” strategies that recognize the highly imperfect nature of the work world and the effects of the loss of the old “social contract theory of employment.” To … Continue reading →

Posted in attitude/culture, cultural changes, employee engagement, employer policies, hospitality, management and leadership, safety programs | Tagged defining employee engagement, employee engagement in the real world, is employee engagement a pancea, is employee engagement worth it, more discussion about employee engegement | Leave a comment