Special Considerations: Reasonable Accommodation. According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) “A reasonable accommodation is any change in the work environment or in the way things are usually done that enables an individual with…
Employment Offer An employment offer should include a start date, wage, or salary (in weekly or monthly amount62), benefits, job title, work location, name of supervisor, restatement that the offer is made under an “employment at will” understanding, and any…
This is SHRM’s definition: “Talent Acquisition encompasses the activities involved in building and maintaining a workforce that meets the needs of the organization.” Talent acquisition involves all the HR strategies and processes that are involved in attracting, recruiting, and selecting…
Each employer organization has pressures from both internal and external sources. Those pressures impact the competitiveness the organization will be able to apply to the world in which it operates. Porter first published his suggestion that these five forces are…
Here is SHRM’s BoCK definition: “HR Strategic Planning involves the activities necessary for developing, implementing, and managing the strategic direction required to achieve organizational success and to create value for stakeholders.” All career levels of HR are expected to support…
During the Civil War, people were selling defective food and arms to the Union military. This law, sometimes referred to as the Lincoln Law, prohibits such dishonest transactions. It prohibits making and using false records to get those claims paid.…
SMART goal setting stands for the following: • Specific Know exactly what you want to accomplish. Goals must be well-defined. They must be clear and unambiguous. • Measurable Have a yardstick to measure the specific intention. • Attainable Make the…
According to SHRM, mission, vision, and values can be defined as follows: • Mission Mission is a concise explanation of the organization’s reason for existence. It describes the organization’s purpose and its overall intention. The mission statement supports the vision…
A systematic approach for the decentralized corporation to determine where best to invest its cash. Rather than rely on each business unit’s projections of its future prospects, the company can judge a unit by two factors that will determine whether…
The EEOC enforces Title I of the ADA. That agency will accept complaints of illegal discrimination based on mental or physical disability. Once an employee has established that he or she is disabled and claims that he or she has…