Pepsi EEOC Settlement – 5 Things Your Organization Can Learn
Pepsi has been ordered to pay $3.13 million to settle a case involving the hiring discrimination of African American workers. The charge was filed in a Minneapolis Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and claimed that Pepsi’s background check policy discriminated against African American job applicants. The EEOC found that the background check [...]
Websites for Small Business – 3 Goals for Small Business Websites
The following guest post was written by Jennifer Smith who is a journalism student at Saint Louis University. Upon graduation, she hopes to travel the world while producing compelling content for the masses. When she isn’t writing, you can find Jenna with her nose in a book, or her headphones in to block out the rest [...]
5 Barriers to Achieving Business Goals
Organizations that use strategy and goals to move the business forward are dependent on how well goals are achieved to fulfill strategic direction. Having a structured performance management process is the most important part in setting goals and achieving them. Accomplishing strategy is dependent on the ability to achieve business goals. Well written SMART goals lay [...]
2012 IRS Standard Mileage Rate
We’re coming to the close of 2011 and people are starting to ask what the IRS mileage rate will be for 2012. The reimbursement rate had an unusual midyear change in 2011 to adjust for rising gas prices and increased by 4.5 cents to the current 55.5 cents. The IRS recently announced that the Standard [...]
Sample Employee Performance Goals
Providing a well structured performance management process is the most effective way to accomplish organizational goals. This management of performance should be based on goals set at the organizational level and driven down throughout the organization. Employee performance goals help employees see a straight line between what they are doing and how it affects the [...]
