Read This - Good Management Stuff

If you have a treehugger on your holiday gift giviing list, Hip and Zen Pen offers these ideas.

I love this post from the Slacker Manager called There is No Such Thing and Positive or Negative Feedback. Here is a snippet:

Our motives in giving feedback may be more important than the actual things we say. If we desire to help the other person learn and grow it will make a huge difference than if we are venting our own frustrations or trying to put another person in their place.

Here are 11 guidelines to unleash effective feedback in the workplace:

The HR Capitalist offers tips for dealing with pay inequities (and you are the victim/underpaid person). The post is targeted to HR professionals, but the advice fits any manager. Here is a snippet:

You're a young manager new  to your role, and after 2-3 months, you finally get some payroll data on your team.  You're scrolling through the detail and BAAAAAAM!!!  Sally (your direct report) is making 5K more than you.  How the #$*# does that happen?

Pay problems are a problem because as this post says, it is almost always more complicated than it seems. Sometimes people are paid more because of a crazy agreement with a VP who is no longer here and who made a promise he or she could not have. If this happens is the right thing to adjust everyone else's pay? This might not be responsible. The problem, I think, is that we make it mean too much when we find out someone equal to or below (on the org chart) makes more money. Most of the time it does not mean what we think at all. Focus on your pay, your work.