Stress in the workplace can have a disastrous effect on peoples' health and lead to sickness and absence. It can also seriously disrupt the business and reduce profits. Yet many organisations consider stress to be a personal problem of individual workers, and something which an organisation can do little to address.

If you're an employer and you don't run background checks, let's look at some of the biggest reasons you should change that policy:

Lighten up! Okay, that may be hard advice for anyone who hears that phrase on the job, but humor in the workplace is more than possible and without getting served a pink slip either, but keep in mind that there are some jobs where humor isn't a good idea

Thirteen suggestions to help you bring about workplace change without sending your entire staff to a Psychiatrist.

As a Manager, make sure you are a Leader as well

Describes the process and necessities of awarding a gift basket to an employee.

Supplies the information necessary to effectively train employees for maximum efficiency.

Companies either struggle with employee turnover reduction plans or, worse yet, do absolutely nothing to reduce it. Robert A. Cameron & Associates suggests how to correct this problem in four easy steps that companies can easily implement immediately.

Explains how to hire the best people for the job and some common mistakes made when trying to do this.

Gives the reasons for obtaining employee dishonesty coverage as well as its advantages and disadvantages.

Describes the growing necessity for employee leasing between companies and why it's different from merely outsourcing.

Explains the need for business gifts and which ones are the most appropriate.

There are perhaps as many reasons why work does not get done as there are unfinished tasks laying around. Work not getting done, even in a small business, over a lifetime means millions of dollars lost.

There are a lot of employment agencies that are willing to help you with your search for a job. If you are unemployed, there is a small problem with these people though and that is that if you get a job through them then they will take a small percentage of your salary.

So you are hiring new employees and have narrowed your stack of resumes to the 10 or so top candidates, now it's time to start setting up interviews. If you dread this portion of the process, you're not alone.