Measuring the performance of your people and improving their performance. Overview: An organization that seeks to maintain and improve its competitive advantage must be able to manage the behavior of its employees to optimize its results. The ability of the people to perform can mitigate their losses or take the challenge and convert the crisis into an opportunity for success. Therefore, performance management influences performance by helping people to understand what good performance means, and by providing the information and…

OVERVIEW: Human resource planning is important because it ensures an organization that they have the right number and kind of people, at the right place, at the right time, in order to effectively and efficiently achieve the organization’s overall objectives.   Proper human resource planning can determine future needs for human resources; provide control measures to ensure that necessary resources are available as and when required; anticipate redundancies, reduce regrettable attrition, and encourage desirable attrition; and forecast future skill requirements to…

Overview:   As often said, “Pay is a powerful communicator of values and direction.”  Having a well-planned and designed rewards system does more than the usual goal of attract-retain-motivate.  It should also be aligned or based on an HR strategy that is linked with a business blueprint. Pay principles may remain the same for all employee groups, but design must recognize differences in each group.  The workshop is designed to provide principles in compensation planning and design for the various…

Overview: One challenge in an organization is opening its communication channel to its employees. Employees need to be heard and engaged in management activities. Installing programs to increase employee engagement is also vital. In such cases, employees leave the organization not because of their salary and bosses. Employee relations is concerned with managing the employment relationship and the ‘psychological contract’ between employers and employees. It also consists of approaches and methods adopted by employers to deal with employees, either collectively…

Overview: With the passage of the DOLE department order 174, companies tend to have problem with their manpower provider. What jobs requires regular employees and what jobs needed to be outsourced to manpower agencies? Another problem is how do companies decide on what categories of employment they going to hire. Companies want to cut their labor cost and this resulted in designing different business models. But this business models often violates the labor law. Module 7 will discuss the fundamentals…

Overview: Labor compliance is good business. Companies who are compliant with international and local standards are usually tapped as a supplier of companies because of the good labor practices. Compliance protects the value chain against future labor disputes and cases. Toward achieving compliance, employers must have knowledge of the relevant laws, regulations and procedures they must comply with. At the very least, they should know the specific labor standards subject to the enforcement and inspection authority of the DOLE. They…

Overview: Social dialogue is a process that includes all types of negotiation, consultation or exchange of information between or among representatives of the government, the employers and the workers on issues of common interest relating to economic and social policy, as well as to productivity, terms and conditions of employment, and the welfare and well-being of workers. Broadly understood, social dialogue embraces all kinds of interactions between workers and employers at various levels within and outside the enterprise. It includes…

Overview: The challenge for human resources practitioners and front line supervisors is to be fair in dealing with people concerns. Disputes between management and workers are inevitable.  Termination cases are often the sources of dispute between the employers and employees. Improper termination procedure and administrative investigation results to labor cases. Proper conduct of administrative investigation and handling of grievances makes fairness in the workplace a reality and enhances supervisor-subordinate partnership. This one-day course is a handy tool. Once principles and basic skills are…