According to James Levine, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic “Today, our bodies are breaking down from obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, depression, and the cascade of health ills and everyday malaise that come from what scientists have named sitting disease.” Martha Grogan a cardiologist states “For people who sit most of the day,
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Recruiting the right people is the first employment challenge. There are some tricks to the trade, one being pre-employment testing. Pre-employment testing helps verify whether the candidate is telling the truth. It helps you carry out the due diligence and choose the person that best fits the job. Bad hiring decisions can cost 1.5 to
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Working out whether an employee’s sick days are legitimate or not is challenging. The first thing to do is investigate the reason behind sick days. A mine field in employee relations terms, because finding out why someone is sick stretches in to personal privacy, human rights, and medical areas. Employers need to tread very carefully
What are the best questions to ask to help predict future performance of employees? In my experience the best questions are either situational or behavioural based. Situational based Candidates are asked questions on how they would handle/react to a hypothetical job related situation in the future. These are the best questions for candidates who don’t
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Employee rewards and incentives are a way to recognise employees for doing a good job. These can take the form of vouchers, gifts, bonuses, and so on. Science is finding novel ways to structure rewards and incentive programmes to get the best bang for your buck. For example studies have found, if as a company
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