Thu.Apr 11, 2019

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4 Ways to Reduce Bias in the Employee Performance Review

Quantum Workplace

Humans are, by our very nature, prone to bias. There is simply no escaping it. Hard as we try to deny our prejudices and treat everyone fairly, our brains are wired to find mental shortcuts that make processing the world around us easier. These repeated patterns of thinking often lead to inaccurate conclusions. Take the following common example: if a top performing employee shows up late for a meeting, you’re likely to excuse their tardiness due to something out of their control, such as an unex

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Remote Employees—The Good, The Bad, The Best Practices

PlanSource

When we think about hiring remote employees, we instantly think of all the great benefits it has to offer. Employees don’t have to deal with traffic or worry about parking, they can easily work from any location and often enjoy a more flexible work schedule—to name just a few of the popular perks. And hiring remote workers offers more than simple lifestyle perks for employees; from an employer perspective, it can save money, reduce turnover and increases productivity.

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Why HR’s Organizational Structure Matters

HR C-Suite

The work of H.R. is continuously changing. Not only has the Human Resources function been evolving to become a stronger, strategic partner to the business, but new priorities continue to shape what we do and how we do it. Metrics, Analytics, Workforce Planning, Succession Planning, Job Evaluation, Job Design, Recruiting, Compensation, Benefits, Rewards — these […].

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals and Trending #HotInHR News

Advos

Our weekly recap of fundings, mergers & acquisition, partnership and other interesting news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace. FUNDING. *This week’s fundings: $48M+. Make School raises $15 million for its pay-for-performance computer science program. Embroker raises $28 million to help businesses find the right insurance policies.

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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What Employees Want – The Benefits Of A Structured Onboarding Process

HR Management

So after a thorough process of searching, screening and selecting, you finally have an ideal new employee. From the time they start working with your organisation it’s important to make them feel welcome and comfortable with their new environment otherwise they may not feel like the role and organisation is as ideal for them. This introduction process is commonly referred to as onboarding.

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Managing Hiring Managers' High Expectations for New College Graduates

SHRM Resources

How can an entry-level job require three years of experience? And how can new college graduates meet managers' high expectations? Internships and employers' willingness to train new workers may be key.

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What is Recruitment Marketing?

Criteria Corp

If your company is trying to win over top talent, you should consider starting before they even apply. That’s where recruitment marketing comes in. Recruitment marketing refers to the tactics used by a company to attract applicants. It applies the same strategies as traditional marketing, but instead of selling products and services to consumer, companies attempt to sell themselves to potential job candidates.

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New York City Council Passes Ban on Pre-Employment Testing for Marijuana

SHRM Resources

The New York City Council passed legislation April 9, 2019, that bans pre-employment testing for marijuana by a veto-proof margin of 40-4. Regardless, Mayor Bill de Blasio was expected to sign it.

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Can people analytics tell the difference between employees, inmates and livestock?

HR Zone

People. People analytics: Employees, inmates and livestock.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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my coworker is routinely late because of she stops for coffee, letting a man open a door at an interview, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworker is routinely late to work because she stops for coffee first. I have a question about a coworker, Sansa, who is routinely ~5-10 minutes late (2-3 times a week). Her job does not require she be here at 9 on the dot. I know being a stickler about a few minutes is not good. However, every morning (not an exaggeration) she is late, she strolls in with Starbucks drinks/food … so in this case, it’s not “traffic was bad”

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Goodbye, Micromanagement! Hello ‘Ownership Culture!’

HR Digest

Today, the old ways of running a workplace are quickly becoming outdated. Organizational governance, annual performance reviews, forced ranking – fail to deliver desired outcomes. Leaders must gain fact-based insights into employees’ evolving needs and learn how to build a workplace of the future. An inevitable trend underway in most companies is a cost-conscious culture, also known as “Ownership Culture.”.

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Performance-based pay: Is it affecting your workers’ mental health?

HR Morning

Performance-based pay is likely the most common feature of the compensation structures of U.S. companies, experts say. And guess what? It’s also likely to be affecting your workers’ mental health. When employers transitioned to a pay-for-performance compensation plan (based on bonuses, commissions, profit-sharing, etc.), workers showed an increased use of anxiety and depression medications: 5.7% over an existing base rate of 5.2%, according to a study conducted at Aarhus University in Denmark an

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These are the 5 Roadblocks to a Digital Transformation

HRExecutive

While HR organizations are making progress on improving key digital capabilities, there’s still plenty of work to be done, according to new research from The Hackett Group. The 2019 Key Issues survey , which polled roughly 150 executives in the U.S. and abroad (most were at large employers with annual revenue of $1 billion or greater), found improvements have been slow and gaps remain, but also that HR leaders are being challenged to tackle multiple issues critical to helping the organiza

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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Pre-tax terms: R is for “Rollover”

Benefit Resource Inc.

In this post, we’ll provide a bit of background about what the Flexible Spending Account (FSA) rollover option is and how it works. We’ll also cover details about when it applies and what to expect in different situations. What is the FSA rollover option? The FSA rollover option is offered by some employers to employees as a form of protection against losing funds in a Medical FSA.

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Active Listening; its Skills and Importance in the Workplace

Vantage Circle

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary for management success. -James Cash Penney. What is Active Listening? Active listening is when you are fully aware and concentrate on what is being said rather than passively hearing what the speaker is trying to convey. The goal of active listening is to acquire information, listen to understand people and situations before responding to it.

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Wellbeing initiatives: are employers expected to be life coaches?

HR Zone

People. Are employers expected to be life coaches?

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My Qualtrics Experience – Cory Ramage – Solutions Architect – Provo, UT

Qualtrics HR

At Qualtrics we believe in experiences. We want to be sure we provide our employees the best employee experience possible. One way we do this is to offer to pay for an annual ‘Qualtrics Experience’. The employee can decide when/where/how to have this experience and then let us know what they learned. This story is part of the ‘Qualtrics Experience’ blog series showcasing our employees and their ultimate experience.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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Solving the flight risk issue: can people analytics tell the difference between employees, inmates and livestock?

HR Zone

People. Solving the flight risk issue.

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Hiring manager says no ‘thank you’ email is a deal breaker and gets an earful on Twitter

HR Morning

Hard and fast rules about hiring could be hurting your ability to attract talent, especially if they seem arbitrary or exclusionary. That issue came to the fore in a Twitter thread in early April. Business Insider Managing Edi tor Jessica Liebman tweeted out a link to her story on the BI website with the long and attention-grabbing headline “I’ve been hiring people for 10 years, and I still swear by a simple rule: If someone doesn’t send a thank-you email, don’t hire them

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Team Building: Nine Methods For Improving Your Employees' Morale

Forbes Coaches Council

Keeping your team's morale strong can be a challenge in the face of long-running daily routines or tight deadlines. Here are some methods you can use to help your teams.

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High-volume hiring for startups: 7 tips for success

Insperity

How do you double, triple or even quintuple the size of your staff virtually overnight without making bad hiring decisions ? Whether you’re hiring for startups or recruiting for a larger company expanding a burgeoning department, finding the right people can make or break your business. Time is of the essence, and there is little margin for error. Hiring strong employees is a challenge under normal conditions, and it only becomes exponentially more challenging when a business is scaling rapidly.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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A Five-Step Guide To Effective Networking

Forbes Coaches Council

If you feel nervous about breaking into a conversation and would prefer to spend most of the night sipping a drink in the corner of the room, you are not alone.

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Fun Summer Office Party Ideas Your Coworkers Won’t Hate

HR Digest

Everyone would be pleased with fun-filled summer office party ideas to wind down all the pressure from first-half of the year. Of course, this is the perfect time to explore all the fun party ideas for work to enable you to put up good planning. Yes, it’s time to get planning, and we’ve got an enthralling list of ideas for corporate summer parties. From all the excitements in outdoor competitions to the amusing ornaments at parks, our list of summer office party ideas will ensure you shake off a

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ISTR 2019: Cyber Skimming Payment Card Data Hits the Big Time

Symantec

Formjacking, while by design less attention grabbing than ransomware, is becoming a pervasive form of money-making attack

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OFCCP Opens Consideration for Vets Hiring Recognition Awards

Berkshire Associates

OFCCP is now accepting applications for the 2019 HIRE Vets Medallion Award! This award recognizes federal contractors who have made it their mission to hire, recruit, and retain America’s heroes. Organizations of all sizes can apply, over 230 organizations received the award last year and the process is easy and secure. The application period is open from now through April 30.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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Prince Harry and Oprah Working Together on Mental Health

Evil HR Lady

Prince Harry lost his mother at a young age after his parents went through a very dirty and public divorce. He suffered from depression and, fortunately, received therapy that helped him. As a result, he and his brother and sister-in-law, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, launched Heads Together in 2017 to help with mental health. Now, the Duke of Sussex joins with Oprah to launch a television series about mental health for Apple TV.

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Evade An Entrepreneurial Crisis: 15 Red Flags To Watch For

Forbes Coaches Council

Members of Forbes Coaches Council detail some red flags entrepreneurs and their coaches should watch for so they can avoid a crash right in the middle of the march to success.

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OFCCP Hosts Town Halls for Financial and Legal Industries – Announces Upcoming Information Collection Proposals Among Other Compliance Concerns

Berkshire Associates

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) held two town hall sessions in New York City this week, focused on the financial and legal industries. The town halls followed the format of earlier sessions, with attendees being asked to provide feedback about several topics, including the agency’s current enforcement practices and ideas for how the OFCCP could help contractors promote diversity in hiring, fairness in promotions and disability inclusion.