Building a salary system can bring many benefits to a business and prevent a lot of friction and wasted time. It is important to have the fundamentals in place and then design a system that meets your needs. It need not be complex.

Deciding what to pay people is often difficult and often winds up with winners and losers instead of a sensible and fair agreement. Looking to the market in a systematic way along with a well designed salary system can ease the pain.

Problems associated with pay are not productive and cause ongoing friction within businesses. While it is nearly impossible to pay everyone what they want it is possible to build a fair and consistent system that works.

With many businesses pay is normally negotiated when someone is recruited and then doesn\'t get another mention until there is a problem. There is a way of making sure this problem is fixed and stays fixed.

Why do some people just not work out? Technically they can do the job, we checked that during the recruitment process. They just don\'t fit.

Some pointers and food for thought for business owners in need of finding good help.

It doesn\'t always have to be a time consuming and expensive training course - there are often smarter ways of developing your employees.

Workplace violence has become one of the biggest concerns for managers, corporate executives and Human Resource Departments in the past several years. In fact, the shear number of incidents of workplace violence is staggering...

While training sounds positive there is a lot of money wasted - and a lot of harm done with the wrong training. Get it right and it will pay for itself and people will want to take part.

Settling legal claims from employees can often be expensive and time consuming. It also damages morale and reputations. Having the guidelines in place is a good investment.