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Best Practices | Small Business Management | Outsourcing

Best Practices

Leadership Tips for Attracting, Engaging and Retaining a Multigenerational Workforce

For the first time in modern history, workplace demographics now span four generations. Understanding the unique social influences that have shaped the behaviors of each is instrumental in creating productive work teams.
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Culture is a Business Issue — How to Measure, Review and Nurture Company Culture

Company culture is unique and provides arguably the most sustainable competitive advantage an organization can have for distinguishing itself against the competition. With culture impacting your talent, products and services, clients and even revenue, it's important to measure, review and nurture something that is so critical to your company's success.
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Building Success in an Uncertain Economy: CEOs Reveal Their HR Management Strategies

This white paper provides valuable insight on how to build an HR strategy that produces results in any economy. Contributors include Govi Rao, CEO of Noveda Technologies, and Tom Hayse, CEO of ETM-Electromatic. Topics discussed include managing significant employee growth, handling management changes/layoffs, and offering benefits for a diverse population.
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A Wage and Hour Primer for Small Business Owners: Avoid Common Pitfalls of Employee Classification

Properly classifying workers as independent contractors vs. employees, or exempt vs. non-exempt employees, can be tricky. This white paper outlines some of the classification issues that small business owners need to be aware of and examines general standards under state and federal law for proper classification.
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10 Principles for Building an Effective Human Capital Plan

A high-level look at principles that should guide a C-level exec or an HR manager in creating an effective HC plan. Because human capital issues do indeed have a big impact on business.
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5 Ways to Manage the Rising Cost of Benefits

Five ways to manage costs and attract top talent, including: finding a benefits package that's tailored for your industry, and taking advantage of technology to keep a lid on administrative costs.
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An Executive's Guide to Cutting HR Costs

This paper focuses on minimizing human capital expenses in four areas: Hiring the right person for the right seat on the right bus; improving performance with motivational yet balanced total compensation; complying with the law; and offering competitive benefits, communicated effectively.
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The Complete RIF Checklist

An overview and checklist of what to prepare before, during and after a reduction in force (RIF), otherwise known as a layoff.
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Small Business Management

Supporting Startup Growth with the New Recruiting Ecosystem

Technology enables the recruiting process to be more streamlined, scientific and democratic. This paper examines how small businesses and high-growth companies can benefit from a quickly-evolving tech-recruiting ecosystem.
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Opportunities & Challenges of Social Media in the Workplace

As a sales and marketing tool, social media can be an inexpensive mode of advertising, reaching a vast audience for a marginal investment. This paper explores social media use in the workplace and how to guard against the pitfalls.
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11 Steps for Scaling a Startup

Establishing a solid infrastructure early supports the growth and stability of any business. This white paper shows how starting out with solid legal, accounting, tax, insurance and human resources management (the elements of an infrastructure) can have immediate benefits while building toward long-term success and profitability.
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Entrepreneurship Is Risky Business — How to Avoid 10 Potential Pitfalls

When it comes to operating at peak performance, today's small and growing companies face a variety of obstacles that can prevent them from meeting their business goals. In addition to federal and state employment-law compliance, there are other systemic pitfalls that can expose a company to risk. This paper identifies the foundational risks that can distract executives from focusing on and achieving their business' goals; along with small business best practices for minimizing or eliminating those risks altogether.
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The Talent Wars: Today's Toughest Startup Challenge

Heavyweights like Google and Facebook can attract the best and brightest but for startup tech companies attracting the top talent they need can be a huge challenge. In this report, leading entrepreneurs, recruiters, and investors share the best practices they use to win the talent wars.
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Growing Your Business in the Modern Economy: 6 VCs Weigh in

To provide insight into the current environment for startups, and how emerging growth companies can best manage growth and risk, six prominent venture capitalists weigh in on the subject. These experts spotlight why startups are increasingly foregoing the IPO route and instead choosing M&A as a viable alternative.
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Employee Retention

Retention is a business issue and losing one or two key people can have a significant impact on your longevity or profitability. This white paper outlines how managers can determine whom to keep, how to treat those who leave, and what to do to retain those necessary to the organization.
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The Unemployment Trickle Effect

A review of what small businesses need to know about changes in the current tax landscape as a result of high unemployment.
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Key HR Aspects for International Companies

For international companies interested in investing or doing business in the United States. Outlines key employment laws and best practices for international companies to keep in mind.
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Top 5 HR Compliance Concerns for Small Business

Small and medium-sized companies spend so much time on growing the business and developing product that they often overlook one of their most potentially serious and costly issues—human resource compliance. Unlike their large-company counterparts, they lack the time and resources to build infrastructure and processes that don’t relate directly to these objectives.
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Outsourcing

HR Outsourcing for SMBs

Human resource outsourcing is a complex industry with a broad spectrum of products and services that can be bundled or delivered a la carte. This paper identifies the complexities and potential risks for small businesses considering outsourcing HR.
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PEO: Taking Outsourcing a Step Beyond Pays Off for Small and Mid-Sized Companies

This paper highlights the findings of a recently published research report by The Aberdeen Group, which revealed that the top barrier hindering HR’s ability to be strategic to business objectives is “too much time spent on day-to-day tactical activities.”
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Financial Opportunities of HR Outsourcing

This white paper discusses the potential advantages of offloading the HR function to a qualified provider in order to achieve two critical objectives: hiring top-quality talent and staying focused on revenue-generating activities.
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What is a PEO?

This white paper outlines what a PEO is, what PEO services are offered, and the four main benefits of partnering with a PEO to do your HR. It also lays out seven tips for finding a healthy and trustworthy PEO.
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Why They Chose HR Outsourcing: A Look at 3 Small Companies

Learn about the decision process of three TriNet customers and why they chose integrated outsourcing to meet their HR challenges.
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Options for Handling Your HR Function

A discussion of the pros and cons for each of the three options for handling your HR: in-house, multi-vendor, and single vendor HR outsourcing also known as the PEO.
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ROI Benchmark Study Report: TriNet HR Outsourcing Services

Gantry Group profiled the payback experiences of eight companies that have deployed TriNet's outsourced HR services for at least two years. The study qualifies and quantifies the expected bottom-line business impact and organizational effectiveness that this solution brings small- to medium-sized organizations.
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