CAREER BUILDER - ON CRI
Entrepreneurs like talking about the significance of team spirit in developing businesses. Expressions such as 10*10>100 and Together Everyone Achieves More are common in a great many management books. However, my question is how can managers expect positive results to improve by a factor of 10 from a team of 10 employees? The widely-known answer is that employers who hire 10 people for a team have to get them to work together effectively. Unfortunately, some managers find fostering team collaboration fairly difficult. If a team meal is the beginning, what more can managers do to bind the team together? To answer the question, I would like to share some interesting outdoor activities that are helpful for team building. Outward Bound […]
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Make it FUN in 2015
- Friday, 20 March 2015 03:44
If you find employees are working listlessly in the beginning of the New Year, instead of snapping at them to work hard you had better find out the real motivator to them. According to the latest employee enjoyment level survey conducted by RMG Selection, a positive and healthy working environment has become the primary factor that can guarantee employees’ enjoyment at work. There is no surprise that working atmosphere already outranked the position of benefits welfare and incentives in the fun factor list. In the Talent Flow Survey 2013 (TFS2), another annual talent report conducted by RMG, the importance of benefits and incentives are in the first place of employee’s consideration. Therefore, it is time for employers and HR managers to think about […]
How Can I Increase Employees’ Efficiency?
- Friday, 20 March 2015 02:42
From an employer’s perspective, the incentive of an outstanding performance review has the potential to motivate. On the other hand, some employers use the other side of the coin-punishment. Unfortunately this usually yields poor results, and if you are about to disappoint and demotivate employees by decreasing salaries or berating them, I suggest you reconsider. Let me start with a question for employers. Have you listened to employees who give reasons or excuses for not finishing their work properly? Most employers reply with a positive answer. However, by “listen” what I mean is not that you are taking phone calls, reading emails, or dealing with other work at the same time. We are talking about a serious performance review, […]
Days of the expats are far from over
- Monday, 16 March 2015 10:31
Debate continues about value of non-Chinese over returnees The fact is, if you ask a thousand professionals in China whether or not expats are still valuable, you will get at least a thousand different answers, possibly more. In 10 years of living in Beijing and commuting between Shanghai and other cities, and after talking to hundreds of people about the role of the expat, particularly the role of the expat versus returnee, I have come to some conclusions, which I share with you here. Let us first analyze the returnee’s role in Chinese business. Returnees (those of Chinese descent who have been brought up or at least studied overseas) usually straddle both sides of the cultural hemispheres: On the one […]
Foreign business in China
- Wednesday, 11 March 2015 09:23
Foreign business find it easier to conduct businesses in China thanks to administrative reforms Robert Parkinson, founder and CEO of RMG Selection, a China-focused international recruitment and human resources consultancy company, recently applied for an ICP (Internet content provider) license for his company and it took him less than a month. When he carried out the same process for another website five or six years ago, the whole process took more than two months, Parkinson recalled. The Chinese Government’s drive to streamline administration and delegate power to lower levels has made it much more convenient for foreign companies to do business in China. “Things have become a little bit easier. The reform has encouraged smaller and medium-sized companies to enter the […]
3个因素影响你的职场幸福感-happy at work
- Monday, 02 March 2015 07:03
薪酬带来的职场幸福感能维持多久？罗迈国际近期做的关于“什么因素让你的工作充满乐趣？”的调查很明确地显示出，对于大部分公司人来说，让他们维持“开心”的工作状态的最重要因素却并不是钱——福利待遇和奖金奖励在这项调查中排在了所有因素的第三和第四。公司氛围和工作内容才是对公司人职业幸福感影响最大的前两个因素。
你知道你的工资为何涨幅很小甚至停滞了吗-salary increase survey
- Thursday, 26 February 2015 04:06
2014年年初，联合利华的品牌经理李婷对自己这一年的薪酬涨幅预期是8%至10%，她2012年加入这家快速消费品公司至今，联合利华每年都会给她涨薪一次，但幅度始终保持在8%左右，“这个幅度比我入行前几年，已经明显变慢了。”而她对自己2014年的薪酬预期直到年底的一次升职才算勉强实现—李婷认为自己进入了一个薪酬瓶颈期。
李婷的感受，可能也代表了很多工作时间超过3年的公司人。他们入行一段时间，经历过收入的平稳上升期，也经历了薪酬爆发点，却从某个时候开始突然意识到自己进入了薪酬瓶颈。这里所谓的薪酬瓶颈，是指在你的职业生涯的某个阶段，薪酬涨幅不明显甚至停滞不前。
Resume Hidden Pitfalls
- Tuesday, 10 February 2015 06:56
One of HR professional’s daily tasks is to to go through as many job applicants’ resumes as they can. On average, HR professionals spend 15 seconds checking one CV. Only 20% of those will be selected, while the remaining 80% of job applicants’ resumes will end up deleted. So this begs an obvious question: how can you tell the quality of a candidate’s CV in such a short time? Resumes are not always easy to deal with. I conclude this based on the ups and downs in the recruitment business during the past 15 years. For instance, before a recruitment consultant sends a candidate’s resume to an in-house HR manager to arrange interviews, he needs to communicate with the candidate […]
Appreciate the Power of Non- Verbal Performance
- Tuesday, 10 February 2015 04:10
There are thousands of suggestions on how to impress interviewers with outstanding performance from human resource professionals and consultants. However, it seems that too much attention is put on the performance of the question and answer session in job interviews. Indeed, by preparing and rehearsing interview questions, you might impress the interviewer. Unfortunately, if you believe that interview and a performance is all you need to get the job offer, then I have to drop a warning by sharing the significance of non-verbal performance in job interviews with you. I have to say that it is strange that most people mix the concept of non-verbal communication with body language. In fact, the former includes the latter. The power of non-verbal […]
Don’t Leave Airborne Leaders Alone
- Tuesday, 10 February 2015 03:44
To facilitate the development of businesses, hundreds and thousands of companies try to invite senior management leaders or specialists from competitors to join. From the perspective of a third party recruitment agency, this phenomenon is quite common in terms of the law of talent flow. Inviting and convincing a qualified leader to join a company is not an easy job for any HR professional. In addition to a huge amount of time on communicating with the potential recruit, HR managers or directors also need to tackle down every bit of concern from the leader. Given that the leader is willing to join your company, do you think it is the right time to utter a sigh of relief? Probably not, […]