: How Much is Conflict Costing Your Organization?
When employees productivity, morale, and motivation fall - for no reason at all, it's not for no reason at all. The first step toward ridding your organization of profit draining behavior is to recognize it for what it is....

: Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) & Employees Substance Abuse Problems
Substance abuse is not only a personal problem, but it can become a professional problem when it begins to interfere with ones work. Employees that feel they are having substance abuse problems should not feel alienated or scared because employee assistance programs offer tremendous help battling substance abuse whether it be drugs or alcohol....

: Increasing Staff-Retention in the Age of Convenience
In this day and age everyone is always seeking convenience. We are constantly in the mind-set of how can we finish this task more quickly, what will be the fastest way to commute to work today, or who will be able to deliver my lunch in an acceptable amount of time after ordering?...

: Preventative Measures of Staff Retention and Absenteeism
Staff retention and absenteeism have been long-standing problems in the workforce. Whether employees are employed in call centres, warehouses, schools, or blue chip Britain, employers often struggle to accomplish maximum efficiency of their workers....

: Telecommuting's Effect on Staff Retention and Absenteeism
In today's fast paced world, the one-job-career is almost extinct. Many blame company redundancies and disloyal companies. But staff retention and absenteeism also play an important role....

: Employee Assistance & Marriage @ Work!
Of course as the manager of any business your primary function is to keep that business running as smoothly as possible and to maximize profits for the owners, but there are several scenarios that you might find yourself needing to deal with on a personal level when it comes to your employees in a firm without an Employee Assistance Program....

: Employees and Their Children - What To Do!
At one time there was someone home all day to tend to the needs of the children but all that's changed to the extent that having someone home on a permanent basis is more the exception than the rule. The recent labor force includes well over half of all women with children ages 6 to 17 and this factor has an affect on factors in the workforce like staff retention and absenteeism....

: How to Develop A Good Employee Stress Management Program
Stress has been called the single most damaging factor pertaining to an employee's job satisfaction and overall job performance. Many recent studies as well as some that have been done years ago point to stress as the one the factors that can be mitigated so that the employee can stay healthy both mentally and physically....

: How to Eliminate Negative Feedback and Stress in the Workplace
As difficult as it can be for some managers to give the positive feedback that employees thrive on, it can be even more difficult for them to give the kind of negative feedback that can cause stress and lead to even more problems that can result in the need for disciplinary measures and even termination in extreme examples....

: Making the Job Interesting and Challenging
One of the biggest problems facing employers is the fact that much of the work that needs to be done by employees is monotonous. As far as staff retention and absenteeism go, one of the impediments to having positive numbers in both these areas occurs when employees find the jobs that they are doing forces them to look at their employment as being stuck in a rut....