Chapter 11
Employing People
In This Chapter
Finding the best employees for your business
Deciding on motivations and rewards
Keeping on the right side of employment law
Unless you intend to work on your own, when running a business you’re involved in employing and motivating others to do what you want them to do. Even if you don’t employ people full-time, or if you outsource some portion of your work to others, you have to choose who to give those tasks to, how to get the best out of people and how to reward their achievements.
In recent years with high levels of unemployment, even among well-qualified graduates, recruitment has been a buyer’s market. But times change, and sometimes faster than you believed possible. Who’d have imagined in June 2013 that by September the number of jobs in real estate would have grown by 50,000 over the quarter to 562,000, the highest level since records began in 1978!
In any event, you’ll never find it easy to get the best people to work for a new or small enterprise. Poor promotion prospects and low job security, both hallmarks of the sector, aren’t exactly great pullers. So, you may find it better to work at getting your work proposition polished ...
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