-- DON'T take your eye off the ball. This is the "suspenders and belt" part of this issue. On top of all these other strategies, it's important to have a backup plan of constantly monitoring what's happening inside the organization. Newspapers have ombudsmen, people who create a feedback platform, where the business can be evaluated by objective eyes. Corporations need to create similar place where people can challenge the way business is being done, safely. Follow these tips and your people will do a better job of staying abreast of the laws and policies that they should be following at work.

WORKPLACE911 EXECUTIVE POINTS

-- DO encourage disagreement and dissent.

-- DO reward experience, data and analysis.

-- DO punish.

-- DON'T take your eye off the ball.

LIST OF THE WEEK from Beyond

Hiring trends from last quarter

-- Nearly 75 percent of all job postings in Q2 were for candidates with no more than three years of experience.

-- Small business with less than 50 employees accounted for more than 50 percent of hiring in Q2.

-- Top areas of hiring were for: Information Technology, 11.8 percent, Healthcare & Medical, 9.5 percent and Human Resources, 6.7 percent.

THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

"The greatest homage we can pay to the truth is to use it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson