Managing Your Manager 101

managing your manager

It is important to look into the crucial relationship between a manager and an employeeResearch, by Gallup, estimates that it is the manager’s ability that accounts for at least 70% of variance in employee engagement scores, across business units.  To have a high level of engagement, managers should ideally guide, direct, and share information readily. … Read more

Configure Rewards and Discipline Settings

This help page demonstrates step wise instructions to configure rewards and discipline settings for the team members. To configure rewards and discipline settings, follow these steps: Click on the following links to know more about them:

addBeneficiary

Employee_Beneficiary.addBeneficiary(WS_Employee_Beneficiary employeeBeneficiary) The Employee_Beneficiary.addBeneficiary(WS_Employee_Beneficiary employeeBeneficiary) method allows you to adding a new Beneficiary to the system. Arguments WS_Employee_Beneficiary : The class type mandatory argument. Returns Returns the beneficiary id. Example API Method Call EmpxtrackAPI.API_BASE_URL =”https://live.empxtrack.com/empxtrack/api.do“;EmpxtrackAPI.API_KEY=”4141414141414141414141414141414141414141414156646a52684b437a5a6c4a2f7968724269775255553d”;EmpxtrackAPI.DATE_FORMAT =”dd/MM/yyyy”;WS_Employee_Beneficiary employeeBeneficiary = new WS_Employee_Beneficiary();employeeBeneficiary.setBeneficiaryName(“John Smith”);employeeBeneficiary.setEmpId(1013);employeeBeneficiary.setDob(“10/12/1980″);employeeBeneficiary.setRelationShipName(“Brother”);employeeBeneficiary.setGender(“Male”);int beneficiaryId = Employee_Beneficiary.addBeneficiary(employeeBeneficiary); API Call through URL: <form method=”post” action=”https://live.empxtrack.com/api.do?apiKey=[AuthToken]&methodName=addBeneficiary“><input type=”hidden”name =”empId” value=”1013″ ><input … Read more

Configure Variable Pay Rules

Configure variable pay rules allows you to setup global configuration rules for the variable pay module. A variable pay plan contains targets that are assigned to employees. These could be from a variable pay sheet or the employee goalsheet. To configure variable pay rules, you need to: Click on the link below to know more … Read more

File Validation Utility

You can download the file validation utility from NSDL web site using the link given below:https://www.tin-nsdl.com/etds-etcs/eTDS-file-validation-utility.php Once you successfully install the File Validation Utility, you need to: 1.  Go to directory path where you have installed e-TDS validation utility[e.g. C:\TDS_FVU_3.2] and click on TDS_FVU.bat file. The File Validation Utility dialog box  appears, as shown in … Read more

Manage Tickets

Employees manage tickets by creating and submitting them to the HR manager. HR is responsible for assigning the ticket to concerned resource handler or specific employee to resolve the issue. Note: The functionality to add a ticket type is not available in Empxtrack Free Payroll and HR software. Upgrade to a paid version to get … Read more

Evaluate a Team Member

A manager evaluates subordinates once the appraisals are submitted to them. A manager can evaluate and rate selected employees together on the same form or rate one employee on all the forms. Evaluating multiple team members on the same form and on the same attribute allows comparison of the performance of all the team members … Read more

Empxtrack on ADP Marketplace

Search for Empxtrack on ADP Marketplace Step 1 Go to ADP Marketplace (https://apps.adp.com/home) Step 2  In the Search Box type “Performance Management”. Empxtrack appears on the first page of the search results. Explore Empxtrack and Its Features Step 3  Check out product overview, features, videos, product screenshots, and more by clicking on the View Profile button. Or … Read more

Employee Retention – Is it a Yay or Nay for your Company in 2018?

Employee Retention Strategies

Employee Retention has become a concern for organizations across the globe. Employee turnover adversely affects a company’s performance and growth. According to the Centre for American Progress, employee turnover costs roughly 20% of an employee’s salary to replace that individual. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics states that people quit jobs in search of better … Read more

Top 15 Ways to Become a Good Boss

Good Boss

Learn how to manage your employees working from home during COVID-19 Pandemic. Hey Managers, Do your employees love working with you or do they just work for you? Do you mentor and guide them to perform better? Have you left a positive impact on their career? Each manager must ask these questions to themselves to … Read more

Women: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Entrepreneurship

Your Step By Step Guide to Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship or starting a new business is petrifying no matter who you are—and when you have the security of a permanent position, it can be tough to cut those strings. Plus, being faced with statistics like the fact that 90 percent of startups fail isn’t very comforting. However, if you have that entrepreneurial drive, it’s … Read more

How to make 2017 More Successful from HR Perspective?

Employee retention and workforce performance are two major challenges for nearly every organization. For achieving better business outcomes, companies need to engage top talent and create a work culture where each employee adds value to the business. Since employees take time to deliver results, it is important to retain experienced and high capability employees. The … Read more

Employee-Manager Relationship: What Do Employees Expect from Their Managers?

Inspiring leader, quick problem solver, empathetic person, multi-tasking colleague and compassionate mentor are some of the qualities that employees generally expect in their employee-manager relationship. For instance, some employees admire a hands-on boss who is always concerned to ask his team members “How are things going?” While others don’t wish to see their boss, except … Read more

Employee-Manager Relation: An Integral Part of Employee Management

Employee Management

Inaccurate results… delayed projects… procrastination… overdue monthly targets… no job satisfaction… improper employee management… Aren’t these words enough to illustrate what’s wrong in a team? They are. There’s no denial to the fact that poor relationships unfavorably affect work and cause immeasurable damage to company results. Believe me, many people feel reluctant at work just … Read more

5 Less Known Advantages of Cloud-based HR Software

Cloud-based HR Software

Smartphones have become ubiquitous in the workplace. Most importantly, young employees now ask for better use of their devices and force HR departments to use mobile-optimized HR, which offers instant access (anywhere and anytime) to important HR information such as workshops and training programs, rewards packages, etc. Indeed, HR fraternity has seen several technological advancements … Read more

Bridge Middle-Skill Gap with Training Management System

Bridge middle skill gap with training management system

“It takes companies an average of 52 days to fill open positions,” according to Talent Acquisition Factbook 2015 by Bersin. The Factbook also reveals that average talent acquisition cost was nearly USD 4,000 per hire in 2014. Among industries, manufacturing had the highest cost, topping out at USD 5,611 per hire in 2014. For SMEs, … Read more

Top 7 posts in the HR space ( July 5th – July 13th)

Weekly Wrap Top HR Articles in the past 7 days

We know that being an HR manager can be particularly taxing – from outlining workplace rules to preventing the next discrimination lawsuit. Wouldn’t you just love it if all the latest in HR news was condensed into a capsule for a quick read? Help us, help you stay updated. Subscribe to our blog posts for the latest … Read more