PIP

The Potential for Improving Performance, or PIP, measures the performance of the average worker versus the best person performing a particular task. Large differences suggest that performance can be improved by bringing average performance up closer to the best performance. Small differences suggest little potential for improvement.
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Occupational Safety and Health Act

On an average U.S. workday, 152 workers will lose their lives as a result of workplace injuries and illnesses, and nearly 12,000 more will be injured. The workplace fatality rate has been cut by nearly 78 percent since the passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) in 1970.
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Surfing the Internet

Twenty-five percent of employees say they are addicted or compulsive in surfing the Internet at work, according to a Harris Interactive survey of 305 employees and 250 HR managers. The survey found that workers spend about eight hours a week surfing non-work-related sites. The most popular sites accessed from work are news pages, shopping and auction sites.
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Acqisitions and mergers

Acquiring another company creates two simultaneous impacts. First, HR must fully integrate all newly acquired employees into the organization. Second, a majority of employees acquired in an acquisition leave within the first year or at the termination of their incentive compensation agreement. HR must replace these employees, resulting in a very time intensive process.
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Employee assistance programs

Employee assistance programs (EAP) are designed to resolve problems concerning health, marriage, family, finances, alcohol, drugs, law, stress or other things that may affect an employee’s work performance. The most common EAP requests are for legal services, estate planning, family law, divorce and bankruptcy. EAP programs are usually provided at no cost to employees and their dependents.
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Pre-employment

Pre-employment screening tests have been around since 1919. There are over 50 different types of pre-employment tests and over 1,000 screening test products available on the market. Popular tests include: skills testing, behavioral and personality assessment, aptitude testing, achievement assessment, polygraph tests, drug and alcohol tests, intelligence tests, and handwriting analysis.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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