Hiring and Managing Employees  3-25-13

As a business grows, you need help to achieve your strategies and goals. But, should you hire, subcontract or use temporary workers? The decision can be perplexing and finding the right people at the right time can be a challenge. And, once you have added these resources, how do you manage and retain them? Which laws apply?

This workshop is designed to help you with these decisions:

• Can you afford to hire an employee?
• What types of employees will fill your needs?
• How will you define the work to be done?
• What are the legal requirements governing the employment relationship?
• How will you recruit and interview prospects?
• What paperwork must be completed when bringing an employee on board?
• How will you motivate and retain employees?

Registration fee:
$49 Early / $59 after 3/23/13
 

Featuring:
Dianne Harmata, Attorney at Law
graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. As an undergraduate, Ms. Harmata was awarded membership in Omicron Delta Epsilon honorary society for academic excellence in Economics. She was also selected as a Lions Club Ambassador to the United Kingdom and to Japan. After graduating from university, Ms. Harmata pursued graduate studies at Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku in Hirakata-shi, Japan on a scholarship from the State of California Universities and Colleges, and, in addition, studied international legal issues both at Trinity College, Ireland and Charles University in Prague, The Czech Republic. She graduated from law school, receiving her Juris Doctor in 1992, and was awarded the American Jurisprudence Award for academic achievement in law school. In 1997, Ms. Harmata received a postdoctoral LL.M. master's law degree in taxation, with emphasis in estate planning. 
 
Ms. Harmata, with her brother, is a principal in the firm Harmata & Associates, a full service law firm with two offices in San Diego County. She practices primarily in business/commercial law and estate planning and is a regular speaker in the community on business and estate planning topics. In addition to continuing education presentations to other attorneys, Ms. Harmata is one of SCORE's most seasoned presenters on legal issues for small businesses. 


Mary Lou O'Keefe

is an experienced human resources executive with a track record of supporting business growth and profitability in the aerospace sector of AlliedSignal (now Honeywell) and at Peregrine Systems in San Diego.  At AlliedSignal she held positions in most technical areas of HR and participated in numerous reengineering and six sigma-based process improvements, including creating the first human resources shared services organization.  Other key assignments included participating in the start up of 14 new manufacturing sites, ensuring that positive management/employee relationships were established and maintained. 

Ms. O’Keefe was hired at Peregrine Systems in San Diego in 1999 to establish a strategic human resources function for this software company.  In this role, she participated in 17 acquisitions and was a key member of the cross-functional acquisitions integration team as well as eventual restructuring and sale of the business to HP.

Ms. O’Keefe earned an MBA and BS Management at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI.  She previously served on the board of directors of the Phoenix Urban League and on the executive board of CUE – an educational subsidiary of the National Association of Manufacturers, in Washington, DC, including two years as national co-chair.    She is currently President of the Encinitas Ranch Women’s Golf Club, Vice President of EWGA and Vice President, Administration with SCORE.

Now retired, Ms. O’Keefe does project-based human resources consulting.  She also volunteers as a Business Mentor with SCORE - America's premier source of free small business advice for entrepreneurs.   SCORE San Diego is part of a national association which serves as a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).  Ms. O’Keefe helps small business leaders with all aspects of the HR start-up needs such as employment decisions, employee and business development, benefits, and employee retention. 

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