Categories: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Workplace Stress
Tackling Stress Improves Morale, Productivity and Safety This article is excerpted from the Center’s brand-new, free online resource titled, Workplace Safety Is No Accident — An Employer’s Online Toolkit to Protect Employees and Volunteers. Rising workplace stress is a large albatross...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Organizational Culture
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Workplace Safety Preserves and Protects
Workplace safety is about preventing injury and illness to employees and volunteers in the workplace. Thus, it’s about protecting the nonprofit’s most valuable asset: its staff members. By protecting the staff’s well-being, you can reduce the amount of money paid...
Topics: Facility, Program and Transportation Safety, HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Workplace Investigation Tips from Sherlock Holmes
Recently, many of our clients have focused on increasing their readiness to respond to and manage employee complaints, workplace investigations, and employment practices liability (EPL) claims. An excellent example of EPL claims risk is Sherlock Holmes himself. If you’re a...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Background Checks, Screening and Your Nonprofit
The term “background check” means different things to different people. Some nonprofit leaders use the term loosely to refer to a variety of screening tools, such as criminal history background checks, credit checks, reference checks, or the verification of prior...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Youth Protection and Child Safety
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Baby, It’s Hot Outside
Eight long months ago, in an article titled “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” I wrote about how increasingly cold temperatures prompted me to reflect on the idea that thoughtful planning and goal setting go “hand in glove” with effective risk management....
Topics: Facility, Program and Transportation Safety, HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Award Season Is Upon Us
The first quarter of a new calendar year ushers in a familiar round of award shows that disrupt network television’s customary prime time programming. Popular magazines offer predictions about which films, directors, actors and actresses are the “front-runners” and which...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Avoid World War Y
March 2, 2016 As a member of Generation Y, I am well aware of the stereotypes that we face. We were the last generation to be born before the popularization of texting, and the first to experience social media in...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Avoid Transition Trauma with a CEO Succession Plan
CEO succession planning can be a touchy subject. Members of a nonprofit board may fear the risk of insulting a CEO by suggesting the topic as an agenda item. Some CEOs may feel disinclined to raise the subject because it...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Ask and You Shall Receive
May 6, 2015 I've been a movie fan since December 1971, when I saw a film on a big screen for the first time, Bedknobs and Brooksticks. So I was immediately drawn to an article titled "The man of many...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Closing Time: Effective Exit Interviews
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end..." - Closing Time, Semisonic Upon learning that an employee or volunteer will be leaving your nonprofit, you might schedule a time for the departing team member to turn in their keys,...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices