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Why HR data literacy skills drive better decision-making

Bob

HR tech adoption is advancing rapidly, with leaders turning to it to drive improved business outcomes , among other aims. Incredibly, 42 percent of respondents in a Josh Bersin Co. survey rated their HR technology implementations as either failed or not fully successful two years after onboarding. This highlights how crucial it is for HR leaders to focus on identifying the right technology products and adopting them effectively rather than rushing to deployment.

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How to Conduct Staff Appraisal Training: The Key to Employee Development

Empuls

Staff appraisal training is a fundamental component of any successful organization's talent management strategy. It serves as a bridge between employees' current performance and their potential for growth and development. By providing constructive feedback, setting clear goals, and fostering open communication, staff appraisal training can empower employees to excel in their roles and contribute significantly to the organization's success.

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Disability inclusion: A business opportunity hiding in plain sight

HR Zone

Underrepresentation of individuals with disabilities in the workplace is an ongoing issue. Embracing disability inclusion is a moral imperative. It is also strategically and financially advantageous for businesses.

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What We Can All Learn About Overcoming Adversity from NWSL Athletes Sydney Leroux and Christen Press

UKG

What We Can All Learn About Overcoming Adversity from NWSL Athletes Sydney Leroux and Christen Press heather.vanhou… Mon, 10/09/2023 - 11:38 Main Image Background Color Magenta Body National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) players Sydney Leroux and Christen Press know a thing or two about inspiring change: Through their influence on and off the field they’re reimagining the business of sports.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Toxic Cultures Are Crushing Workforce Wellbeing. What Can Employers Do?

TalentCulture

Toxic cultures are like dark clouds looming over the world of work. Wherever they go, they wreak havoc with employee wellbeing. That’s not an overstatement. For example, consider what one recent technology industry survey revealed: 45% of tech employees said their work environment is so toxic it affects their mental health, while 48% said it […] The post Toxic Cultures Are Crushing Workforce Wellbeing.

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4 must-haves for an effective mental health strategy

HRExecutive

As World Mental Health Day approaches on Tuesday, the statistics facing employers are startling: According to a study by Mental Health America, 83% of employees feel emotionally drained from their work, and another 90% say workplace stress affects their mental health. - Advertisement - Three years after the emergence of COVID and the increased spotlight on employee mental health, most employers understand the many workplace risks associated with deteriorating mental health and are spending more

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Passive Candidate Recruitment: How To Succeed in 2024

Analytics in HR

The key to your recruiting challenges could be passive candidates. If the ideal prospect for an open position is not coming to you, try going to them. Finding and engaging candidates who aren’t in the job market yet is a resourceful way to optimize your talent acquisition strategy. This article will help you understand what a passive candidate is and provide useful information about sourcing and recruiting passive candidates.

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6 questions to ask about pay equity assessment tools

HRExecutive

If you want to figure out if you offer equal pay for equal work , first you have to figure out what work is “equal.” - Advertisement - The pay part is pretty straightforward; it’s math. The work part is more difficult because there’s less data out there, and it’s much harder to compare. Pay equity analysis tools have come a long way from simply matching job titles to salaries.

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How AI Can Improve Healthcare Operations Management

Skedulo

Artificial intelligence (AI) has amazing potential to improve healthcare operations management: scheduling, dispatching, communication, admin tasks, and more.

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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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9 Ways to Accelerate Hiring Excellence with ATS Software

Hire Talent

Recruiters often aspire to bring aboard top-notch candidates swiftly, but achieving this goal can be challenging. Identifying the ideal candidate seldom occurs by chance, as human resources recruitment is intricate. This journey involves numerous stages and multiple individuals, making selecting the perfect fit a time-consuming endeavor that can span weeks or even months.

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Age Discrimination in the Workplace: A Tale as Old as Time

HR Digest

Discriminatory practices follow us everywhere but age discrimination in the workplace is rarely discussed, despite being such a common experience. Pamela Wimbish and Patricia Onken , two HR division managers who gave IBM 20 and 40 years of their loyalty respectively, are now suing the company for workplace discrimination that led to the termination of their employment.

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The Truth & Myths of Biometric Time Clocks

Accu-time

" This post was originally published on September 21, 2017 and updated on March 28, 2019." As you look for more reliable and secure ways to track employee time and eliminate the costs of time theft and buddy punching, exploring biometric time clocks is a natural choice. Biometric scanners have been showing up in television and movies since the 1960s in Star Trek: The Original Series , where they've used everything from voice prints to retina scans.

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Governor Signs Paid Sick Leave Expansion Bill

HRWatchdog

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a California Chamber of Commerce job killer bill that will impose significant costs on all California businesses by increasing the number of paid sick days employers are required to provide workers. SB 616 (Gonzalez; D-Long Beach) disproportionally affects small businesses, which cannot spread additional work among many employees, and can ill afford the increased cost of additional paid sick leave days.

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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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HR Tech: All about making connections

HRExecutive

Meeting at HR Tech this week in Las Vegas is as much about person-to-person conversations as it is about technology. In fact, engagement has brought together tens of thousands of industry colleagues from around the world. In related news, there’s an interesting project from Polinode demonstrating “People Also Viewed” data from LinkedIn to map a network based on HRE’s 2023 Top 100 HR Tech Influencers. - Advertisement - This is an exciting look at HR tech connections that r

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June Bower: ‘Really Good Feedback … Is About Reaching an Understanding’

Betterworks

June Bower of TalkShop Workshops and Caitlin Collins of Betterworks discuss how HR leaders can improve feedback processes and performance outcomes.

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Comment on WhatsApp + live chat for superior customer service by Oby

Zoho Recruit

Connect your WhatsApp Business account with Zoho SalesIQ to assist prospects and customers in their favorite instant messaging channel.

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4 Solutions for a Reliable Grocery Front End

TimeForge

While it may seem hard to believe, the holiday season will be here before you know it. If there is one thing that I have learned in my 25 years in the grocery business, it’s that this season can make or break your store. There’s no getting around it, a larger volume of customers coming in for their Thanksgiving turkeys or quickly stopping in for those last-minute Christmas party pies can sometimes bring tension to your supermarket aisles.

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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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UK Triples Fines for Hiring Migrants Without Work Permission

SHRM Resources

The U.K. will triple fines for employers who hire migrants who are in the country illegally, effective early next year—a change the government calls the biggest shakeup in civil penalties in a decade.

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Is human resources ready for climate change?

HRExecutive

Heat emergencies , wildfires and extreme weather events are increasing in frequency as global temperatures rise. To mitigate the risk of the change in climate, companies are already “hardening” their physical facilities , reevaluating their insurance and seeking to decrease their carbon footprints. Companies should also carefully consider climate change when designing their human resources policies and benefits.

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Is Pay Transparency Required in Your State?

Cisive

Pay transparency is becoming more common due to worker pressure and government action. This has led to companies introducing their own pay transparency policies. A pay transparency policy is any policy where information about wages and salaries is shared with employees. This includes pay ranges, details about how salaries are calculated, and how pay raises are determined.

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MAD-HR Director Carole Burman reveals the secrets behind people-led growth on the Sales Cadence podcast

MAD-HR

Here at MAD-HR we have a long history of spreading the good news that effective HR is about so much more than ‘hiring and firing’. Really great HR practice is … The post MAD-HR Director Carole Burman reveals the secrets behind people-led growth on the Sales Cadence podcast appeared first on MAD-HR.

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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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Is flexwork normal or a fad? In the US, that depends

Workable

What’s happening in the evolving US job market right now? We have data for you on flexwork in its different forms, and how that’s changed since 2021. Top 3 takeaways Those working fully remote dropped from 58% to 41% – but most have been doing it for years now Flexible schedules remains steady – and those working on flexible times have increasingly been doing so for years More employers than before have made overall flexwork a permanent feature At one time during the onset of the pandemic, remot

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Cisco's Tips for Showing Leaders How to Connect with Employees

Great Place to Work

Before jumping into a listening session or a 1:1 meeting, here’s how to ensure leaders are ready to engage. How can companies take steps to help leaders make connections across the organization and increase the diversity of their networks? It’s an important issue, and one that won’t be solved without an organization’s intervention, because of the diversity missing from most senior leadership teams.

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5 real-life junior account manager interview questions

Workable

These Junior Account Manager interview questions are directly sourced from real hiring managers and they are ready to use. Make sure that you are interviewing the best junior account manager candidates. Sign up for Workable’s 15-day free trial to hire better, faster. 5 good junior account manager interview questions Discuss a time when you performed an analysis and it was incorrect.

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How Atlassian’s Peer Recognition Program Reinforces Its Culture

Great Place to Work

The Kudos program is crucial for building connection and camaraderie for the company’s distributed workforce. Employee recognition is an essential element of great workplaces. Scaling these efforts can pose a quandary for companies with complex operations. Of course, employees love to get plaudits from the CEO, but what happens when you are a global company with a distributed workforce?

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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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7 real-life staff accountant interview questions

Workable

These staff accountant interview questions are directly sourced from real hiring managers and they are ready to use. Make sure that you are interviewing the best staff accountant candidates. Sign up for Workable’s 15-day free trial to hire better, faster. 7 good staff accountant interview questions What do you do to ensure accounting accuracy? If you’re doing a physical inventory account and you find a big difference, what do you do?

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Gallup Research Debut: Driving Workplace Culture by Leveraging Recognition

HRExecutive

Register here! Date & Time: Thursday, November 02, 2023 at 2:00PM ET Speakers: Corinne Selk , SHRM-SCP, Principal Consultant Emily Lorenz , Ph.D., Survey Methodologist and Consultant, Gallup Sponsored by: Description: An organization is only as strong as its work culture. In fact, human talent is worth 2.33X more than any physical or technology asset.

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Employment agreement policy template

Workable

A standardized employment agreement policy assists HR professionals in ensuring consistency, clarity, and legal compliance across all employment contracts. It streamlines the hiring process, reduces ambiguities, and fosters a transparent working relationship between the employer and the employee. What is the employment agreement policy? These agreements are essential in setting clear expectations, defining roles and responsibilities, and protecting the rights of both parties.