HR 101 for Front Line Managers and New Supervisors.

Training your managers in the basics of management principles and HR is the most cost effective and easiest way to head off employee relations problems and legal challenges. In an increasingly complicated world of employee compliance in which HR struggles just to keep abreast of new developments not teaching managers the basics can be costly. After all it’s the managers who interact with employees on a day to day basis and every day is an opportunity for problems to arise that a manger was never trained how to address. Knowing what to do in increasingly complicated employee situations can be difficult for even seasoned managers, especially if a manager has never had training. For a new manager these problems are intensified. Further exacerbating the problem is that managers often inherit a dysfunctional department and/or are promoted to supervise those with whom they once were coworkers.