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Learn effective tips on hiring and managing a network of employees from these articles.

Getting Your Employees to Give You Honest Feedback

Written by Jayme Dill Broudy

Dear Jayme:

You've told me to listen to my employees to be aware of how my business is running. Good idea, but employees are always afraid to tell the boss the bad stuff. They're not going to talk to me, are they?

Tags: 2006 November Issue , Jayme Dill Broudy , management

Guiding Principles and Why Your Business Should Have Them

Written by Jayme Dill Broudy

Construction Business Owner, August 2009

Dear Jayme,

My business is doing okay. We get the jobs done, but sometimes it feels like everybody's going in different directions (and not the directions I'd like). I feel like I ought to have things the way I want, but I don't know how to make that happen without correcting people a thousand times. What do I do?

Tags: 2009 August Issue , Jayme Dill Broudy , management

Look in the Mirror and There's Your Business

Written by Jayme Dill Broudy

Dear Jayme:

I know that a business needs a leader, but I don't know what that really means. What does a leader do and how does he act?

Tags: 2006 December Issue , change , Jayme Dill Broudy , management

Implement a Prevailing Wage Retirement Plan

Written by Adam Bonsky

Construction Business Owner, June 2009

Company owners are often frustrated over their inability to use a 401(k) to save money for retirement. Generally speaking, IRS regulations limit owners and other highly compensated employees to contributing a maximum of 2 percent more than the average contributed by all non-highly compensated employees* and if hourly employees are contributing nothing, well, the math isn't hard to do.

Tags: 2009 June Issue , human resources , insurance