This kit provides you with the essentials to assist you in ensuring your staff are safe - but only if you tailor it specifically to your work environment. You will be given appropriate health and safety policies to implement in your business, emergency procedure guideliens, an effective template for a health and safety register, and other health adn safety essentials. But you will need to ensure all key hazards are identified.
Staff memebrs applying for parental leave can be such an unusual thing that when it happens a lot of employers simply don't know how to react. This kit will assist you in making sure that the right process is followed by both you and your staff member to ensure that they can get their maximum government entitlement and you follow the right legal steps.
Some companies are very dependent on certain individuals. They may have a particular skill set that’s hard to find, or hold a lot of company knowledge that would simply disappear if they left.
Being a good employer is good, as you are signaling to your employees that you care about them. And in many situations, this is enough to increase retention on its own. But in a highly competitive environment, being good is often just not good enough.
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It was quick and simple – the incoming CEO moved three key advisory positions to report to the General Manager instead of to herself. Less work for her, but within 6 months all three had left, taking significant knowledge with them and leaving a sizable recruitment headache. Was it good for business? – “no”. Why did it happen? – because the CEO didn’t consider the needs of the individual managers.
Imagine a small company with one significant remote branch – large enough to be managed, but too small to warrant an Assistant Manager. The Manager of this branch was considered competent and with great potential, but he got bored and left to seek something more rewarding. The business owner was left with a big hole to fill and for a while had to put in significant extra hours.
Imagine a small company where the Manager is often out of the office visiting clients – whether in the same city or travelling around the South Island. In a situation like this, it wouldn’t be a surprise if the Manager’s priorities weren’t on the admin employees left behind in the office but on other, more pressing business matters.
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