Ensure that your managers are familiar with the Basic Guide to Occupational Injuries produced by the Department of Labour. Occupational Injury forms and documents may be viewed online at the Department of Labour website.

Human Capital Management will help organizations to develop their resource plans. It highlights the importance of strategically anticipating Human Capital changes through planning; it offers basic planning steps, issues to consider, and strategies. This paper consolidates the concepts and benefits of Human Capital management through a case study ... describes the various resource models and their advantages and disadvantages. ... detail the Hybrid Model for Human Capital Management, various steps involved, strategy factors, and key benefits. ... related activities for greater cost savings and resource optimization.

I’ve discovered an interesting phenomenon when organizations bring me in to help ‘motivate their people.’ They may be suffering from customer complaints, staff turnover, or a lack of teamwork. At first glance, these appear to be front line people problems. What we frequently find however is that most problems involving attitudes and teamwork are actually just symptoms of flawed infrastructures. Let’s see if this could be true in your organization.

When applying for a new job, we are (rightly) concerned about putting our best foot forward and making sure that we are selected. Often we neglect the fact that it is a two way street – they select us and we select them. Unfortunately, the consequences of not selecting the right boss only become obvious once we are in the new role. My research (see Where Have All The Honest Managers Gone?) clearly shows that people do not leave an organisation, they leave a boss!

How few people have actually worked with a person with a disability. Or how few people attended school or university with learners with disabilities. As these are the most socially interactive times of our lives, where else are we likely to meet, interact with and know people with disabilities?

“The process discussed in this article encourages them to understand the enigma that is disability. It empowers them to be able to meet disability on its own terms.

In the Caselaw.co.za Newsletter Vol 1, Ed 3, 2007

Enforcing Equity - The Employment Equity Act bears its teeth
Employer liability for acts of sexual harassment.
Quotation: Test for interfering in disciplinary decisions
Training Courses by Perrott Van Niekerk Woodhouse Inc
Collective Bargaining Law
Unfair dismissal by Andre Van Niekerk; Kirsten Linstrom
Workplace law: (8th - 2005) by J. Grogan

This guide to the law of unfair dismissal explains the law with authority and answers the following questions - who is an employee?; what is a dismissal?; what are the requirements for a fair dismissal?; what are employers' and employees' respective rights and obligations?; if I have been unfairly dismissed what procedures do I follow, and what are my remedies?

Put pen to paper and make us smile. We all know HR, IR, Project Management etc. are under an enormous amount of pressure.

Share your hilarious faux pas – laugh at yourself and let others laugh with you. The winner will receive a pat on the back, make others smile and others nod their heads in agreement having been there and done that...

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When you frequently refer to a page on a website, and have stored the web page address on your computer system, your system might refer you to a previous version of the page that has since been updated. To avoid looking at out-of-date data, try the following:

• Open the page that you frequently visit.
• Click the Refresh button on your Internet server's task bar.
• Click on it again a few times.
• See if there are any changes to the page that you are viewing.

Stand a chance to win a Human Rights Day souvenir from Workinfo.com. Submit a human resource best practice case study you have implemented in your organisation. Tell us what the situation was, the practices you implemented to address this, and the resolution.

Deadline: Wednesday, 21 March 2007, 24:00.

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