How to Guides » small businesses http://blogs.iguides.org/how-to-guides Place to learning various how to guides, articles and plenty of useful guides about everything! Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:38:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Guide to know about emerging HR Trends http://blogs.iguides.org/how-to-guides/guide-to-know-about-emerging-hr-trends.html http://blogs.iguides.org/how-to-guides/guide-to-know-about-emerging-hr-trends.html#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:59:13 +0000 admin http://www.iguides.org/how-to-guides/?p=171 For almost all small businesses, it is always challenging to find, hire and keep good and efficient employees with them. It is expected that competition for reliable and talented employees will further intensify in the coming days. And that’s why it is quite important for HR (Human Resources) personnel to closely watch the emerging trends in this arena to induct valuable expertise in their businesses.

Keeping these facts in mind, here are four human resources trends that can be very effective to recruit, hire and retain your employee.

  1. For a large number of businesses, web is serving as a best tool to find suitable employees. These businesses need to adopt three web related tactics: to view directories related to trade group and association membership, to mine blogs specific to some industry and to scan social networking sites like LinkedIn and MySpace.
  2. Many companies have these strategies even today that they don’t friends and relatives to work together considering wastage of time, but now results of some new studies show that productivity can be increased if friends are allowed to work together. It is said that friends turned colleagues support each other when they work together. People who can form friendship earlier in their job usually stay longer in their job.
  3. Business size and age are the factors that become the cause of difference in job satisfaction of the employee. People who serve in big firms say that the most important thing for job satisfaction is health care benefits. Those who work in medium-sized companies reckon compensation quite important while those who attach to some small business consider work environment and safety at their top priority.
  4. Aside from health care benefits, which employees rank as number one benefit, there are many other benefits like paid holidays, training opportunities, coverage of prescription drugs, payroll deductions and direct deposit are some benefits that are commonly offered. Aside from these benefits, vision insurance, PDAs and mobile phone for personal use and transit subsides are other benefits that are offered these days. While car allowances, memberships of health club are traditional pension plans are some benefits that many companies are cutting these days.

These are some emerging trends in the human resources and if you closely observe these emerging trends, it would be quite easier for you to find right reliable and skillful employees for your businesses.

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