Studies show that a healthy work environment help lead to both the overall health and well-being of individuals and higher engagement of your employees in the workplace. A respectful workplace can be defined by a number of qualities within your organization; example qualities include:

You have made the excellent decision to invest in management or leadership training for your company. You are excited about the potential for change and ready to see improvement in your workforce. As you are making a substantial investment in your people, make sure you set up your team for success to make the training effective.

It makes no difference if you pronounce it to-MAY-to or toe-MAH-toe. Whether it’s in a sauce or a salsa: a tomato is a tomato. Did you know that unwelcome action towards others in the workplace don’t use the same naming convention?

Let’s say that your HR Director resigns unexpectedly. Or he or she goes on an unplanned leave of absence. What do you do?

Article originally published in SHRM Online on October 23, 2014.

As I previously wrote in another blog article, Common Problems with the Service Contract Act (SCA) Requirements, the requirements under the SCA are difficult to navigate. I have recently received questions on and worked with multiple clients on helping them classify their SCA workers; so here I wanted to go a little deeper on how to properly map your workers to the Wage Determination.