Month: February 2012

Recycling: Big Savings, Low Cost, Proud Employees, Impressed Customers

Need a low-cost initiative that makes management, employees, and customers happy? Recycling should fill the bill. Here are some tips and considerations for developing your company’s recycling policy from Top 10 Best Practices in HR Management for 2012. Reduction in Paper Used. Your policy could encourage employees not to print or copy documents unnecessarily. Packaging. […]

SM Background Checks—15% of HR, 100% of Hiring Managers

We’ve talked about the advisability of doing social media background checks before. Briefly, the negative of doing such checks is that you’re guaranteed to find out things you didn’t want to know about race, religion, etc. Once you have that information, it’s easy to suggest that it played a part in your decision-making. On the […]