Sacramento Business Journal Notes Silvers HR Growth

Silvers HR Management, a small human relations shop in Granite Bay, announced Wednesday it has acquired JV Associates in Cameron Park. Jacqueline Vance of JV Associates has retired from the business after almost 40 years of human resources consulting. The deal sends...

“A Witness at the Scene” Compensation Program

We’re planning to give our hourly employees a cost of living pay increase next month. What should we use as the benchmark? Pay for performance (or merit pay) is the compensation program I recommend – regardless of the employee’s status in the company. Unless you’re...
Two Sides of the Story

Two Sides of the Story

We recently hired an employee who now claims to have received a generous vacation package from her hiring manager when she accepted the job. Unfortunately, the manager is no longer available to confirm or deny that. She’s a good employee and we’ll probably give her...

HR Assessment – Tools, Not Test

Julie Moreland knows, when it comes to hiring people, what you see is rarely what you get. As the head of a personnel-consulting firm, she has learned that tests do make the hire. A Silicon Valley computer-integration firm suffering from high turnover on the sales...