Human Resources Articles

The people component of running a business Dr. Terry Stimson has over twenty years of diagnosing, designing, developing and delivering training programs with business, government and non-profit organizations. A prolific writer, he shares his expertise and experience through articles and books.

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• Conflict as Productive Tension Whether the conflict creates a disaster or becomes productive tension which leads to positive results all has to do with how the conflict is managed.

• Appraise Performanace Theoretically, performance appraisals provide information upon which promotion and salary decisions can be made.

• Managing Conflict Conflict is the process of expressing dissatisfaction, disagreement, or unmet expectations with any organizational interchange; a dispute is one of the products of conflict.

• Training Efforts When companies start looking for ways to cut costs, sometimes it seems training programs are first in the crosshairs. Here's why you can't afford to curtail training efforts.

• Sources of Power Seven power bases can easily be separated into two broad categories of power: positional and personal.