Creating a Culture of Wellness
Considering that most people spend a majority of their waking hours at work, employers, managers, and co-workers are in a unique position to identify signs of burnout.
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Human resources are vital to the success of breweries of all sizes. From recruiting, hiring, training and retaining your work force, to employee engagement, and even succession planning, the resources in this section will help you to establish standards for your brewery in this uniquely challenging industry.
Considering that most people spend a majority of their waking hours at work, employers, managers, and co-workers are in a unique position to identify signs of burnout.
A well-crafted employee handbook is an essential tool for managing any organization. However, it has always been fraught with legal risks, even more so now.
No employment law is more misunderstood and misapplied by employers than the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the federal wage and hour law.
For those of you tasked with finding new candidates to fill open roles in your brewery, you know just how challenging it is to replace a great employee in today's labor market.
Back in the day, all you had to do to make the customer happy was to hire a smiling local to offer flavorful beer. But more breweries are discovering the value of an educated staff.
In this excerpt from Crafting Brewery Culture, the author discusses the benefits of cross-training your staff to improve operational efficiency and stay adaptable.
Many managers, leaders, or owners choose to ignore burnout and let it slowly chip away at the mental and physical health of their people. But burnout doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
Despite the continued prevalence of cultural discrimination in the workforce, there are other types of bias that may contribute to the lack of diversity in craft brewing.
Between April and June 2021, 11.5 million workers quit their jobs, the U.S. Department of Labor reported. Craft breweries were not immune to the Great Resignation.
Many companies, while priding themselves on great products, neglect the hard work of fostering a great workplace. Does your craft product come from a craft culture?