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HR Needs to Transform and Refocus, Now, with HRBP

TalentCulture

Human resources emerged during the last century in response to new government requirements, employment laws, and employer expectations. However, the last century was a long time ago, and business needs have changed. Most HR departments haven’t managed to keep pace. It’s time for HR to transform and refocus and make use of the human resource business partner (HRBP)—a pivotal role in the transformation process.

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Why Track Employee Hours Worked?

HR Daily Advisor

Why track exactly how many hours every employee works? For an organization with primarily hourly employees, this question might be very straightforward, as tracking hours worked is required to know how much the employees need to be paid and how much overtime is owed. But for organizations that have primarily (or even exclusively) salaried roles, and especially those with flexible paid time off (PTO) policies, it can become more of a question, Why does it matter if an employer tracks how much an

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Employees jumping ship, but many want to climb back on board

HR Morning

Employees may be leaving jobs at historically high rates , but there’s a silver lining: A big bunch of them come back to their old employers. . That’s the word from a new survey from national staffing company Spherion. About 1,000 full- and part-time workers took part in the research, and nearly one in three (29%) said they’ve returned to a previous employer after leaving for some time.

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5 reasons talented tech professionals are choosing to leave their jobs

Ceridian

If you work in the human capital management industry today, you’re probably feeling a constant sense of pressure to maintain strong employee retention and productivity at your office. Keeping your people around is important – your organization works hard to find top talent, and the last thing you want to do is lose it. This is especially true in sectors like technology, where many workers have developed specific job skills that are in high demand in today’s economy.

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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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Managing Low Performers: When Enough is Enough

ClearCompany HRM

Managers are regularly faced with tough decisions. Deciding when to let someone go isn’t easy, especially if all the options haven’t been weighed and today’s growing skills gap puts every decision a manager makes under the microscope. The need for qualified talent is growing, but availability of the right candidates seems to be shrinking.

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. 12 Recruiting Stats That Will Change The Way Your Hire -- by Laurence Hebberd. 2. 3 Questions Every Employer Should Ask in a Job Interview -- by Tulika Tripathi. 3.

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California Becomes First State to Raise its Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour

Trinet

California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed a bill into law that will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next six years. In this historic move, California will have the highest. Visit site for full story.

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Science-Backed Process to Set Business Goals and Achieve Results

ClearCompany HRM

At ClearCompany, we take goals seriously. We understand just how pivotal they are to the entire infrastructure of a business and because of that, we have worked hard to provide a great deal of information around setting and attaining business goals so your team can tackle projects, large and small. Knowing the steps to creating a goal-oriented business model is great, but what are the facts under all those steps.

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Give #HR the Tools to Become Strategic and Successful

HR Bartender

There’s regular conversation about the need for human resources to be more strategic. And, the discussion usually mentions that HR needs to learn the business and numbers. Totally true. Successful HR pros understand their industry, company, as well as their role. However, I came across a report recently that might offer some insight why this is such a tough transition for HR.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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Employee Engagement is at Critically Low Levels

Reflektive

In yet another study into the dismal world of employee engagement, the Hay Group division of Korn Ferry, released last week , found that across all leadership levels an average of only 36 percent of employees are “highly engaged.” The new study of 7,500 business and HR leaders in 107 countries also identified that social responsibility programs can enhance engagement and performance. .

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Old MacDonald Had a Farm – Then Became an Employee Engagement Guru

What is Paul Thinking

Show of hands… how many of you like being compared to domesticated farm animals? Or even non-domesticated animals for that matter? Except for honey badgers and wolverines – those are some bad-ass animals. I’m cool if someone said I was like a honey badger or wolverine. But what about cows? Do you like being compared to a cow? Don’t we all? Why else would people write about treating employees like cows?

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How To Respectfully Lay Off Employees – The Complete Guide

Intoo USA

Turnover happens at every season and at every company. Sometimes reductions in force (RIFs) affect a large number of employees at once, and other times they affect one. Regardless of the company or industry, the way we treat employees as they exit has never been more important than it is today. When we surveyed 1,300 job seekers, we learned 38% of those who were terminated or laid off have shared a negative review about the company who let them go either online or with a professional or personal

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5 Signs One of Your Employees is About to Quit

Trinet

No company likes to deal with employee turnover. And there’s one good reason for that – hiring and training new employees is expensive. Employee replacement costs can reach as high as 50-60. Visit site for full story.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

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

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Tread Lightly: Why You May Want to Reconsider Befriending Your Boss

The Aristocracy of HR

010020100100 It’s a fabulous thing when the stars align and you gain a great boss in taking a new job. What makes them “great”? Perhaps, they have a great personality. They aren’t the usual stuffy leader. Maybe, it’s because they are concerned with your well-being. They ask about the family and how things are going. All […].

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NFP: How to turn business challenges into opportunities

EmployeeConnect

A roadmap for Not for Profits. Spending the best part of the last 12 months speaking with NFP Organisations has allowed me to dive deeper into the challenges they face and gain an insight into how these challenges can be addressed. Attempting to deliver services with limited funding is by no means an easy task and there are a few main pain points that NFPs constantly deal with.

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Office Security with Kisi: How to Prevent a Potential Security Breach

Justworks

This guest post is from Kisi. Kisi makes it easy to manage employee and visitor keys to your office with smartphone access. According to the FBI, in 2014 approximately 26% of accounted burglaries in the US were non-residential. Office spaces are easy targets for burglary, identity theft, unlawful entry, and a wide range of other criminal threats. Effective security measures can reduce the likelihood of these threats, but what are those measures?

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Are You Surface Acting At Work?

WorkHuman

While most of us aren’t professional actors, managing the emotions that we express to other people at work is par for the course. It can also be exhausting. What kind of toll does such emotion regulation take on well-being? How does it impact team functioning and culture? Surface acting at work is a topic Sarah Rose Cavanagh, associate professor of psychology at Assumption College, will be discussing at WorkHuman next month.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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4 Steps to Build a Human Workplace

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Research points to the importance of a caring and purpose-driven culture, leadership support, and values-aligned recognition in creating a human workplace. Globoforce’s WorkHuman Research Institute recently released a report on The ROI of Recognition in Building a Human Workplace. Below I outline several key findings from that report, and describe the steps that organizational leaders can take to create more human workplaces.

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How to rehabilitate disengaged employees

Achievers

Disengagement in the workplace is a problem that’s all too common these days, and disengaged employees have a negative impact on both their coworkers and businesses as a whole. A Gallup poll found that fewer than 31 percent of American workers felt engaged in their jobs, while 17.5 percent were “actively disengaged.” Because these workers can wreak havoc on productivity and morale, you need to be able to recognize the signs of disengagement so you can address it as it happens.

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Writing An Offer Letter? Use This Easy Template

Justworks

There’s nothing more exciting than bringing on a new hire. After all your hard work to find the right person, it’s a time of celebration — and a time to put your best foot forward. Make sure you and your new employee are on the same page from day one with a clear job offer letter. Prospective employees should sign a job offer letter before they begin work.

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[Infographic] 7 Tall Tales About Productivity: Myth or Reality?

Hppy

Happier people are productive, and productive people work all the time, right? That’s how they get so much done—yes? Nope, not at all: Productivity doesn’t actually have much to do with hours. In fact, there are several myths related to productivity that need some dispelling. For starters, those hours: More of them doesn’t equal more work done. In fact, it equals turnover and absenteeism.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Make Data Persuasive by Becoming a Storyteller

UrbanBound HR

Because you follow best practices, obviously, and you read this blog regularly, obviously, you have a meticulously maintained collection of data that powers your decisions. However, man cannot live on data alone.

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DEADLINE EXTENSION: WorkHuman 2016 Essay Contest

WorkHuman

Attention graduate and undergraduate students! You still have time to enter to win a free trip to Orlando next month! We have extended the deadline to submit entries for our WorkHuman Fellowship Essay Contest to this Friday, April 8th ! See the original post with contest details below. — WorkHuman 2016 is fast approaching and so is the end of the semester for many college and university students.

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From GoDaddy to Tesla: Business Tips from 17 Successful Entrepreneurs

Justworks

We’ve been thinking about leadership recently, so as a follow up to our 11 Qualities All Effective Leaders Possess , we thought we’d give you some thoughts and suggestions from actual successful entrepreneurs — people who really know their stuff. We took some of our leadership tips from our 11 Tips post, and paired them with a piece of advice or two.

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UK’s Happiest Workplace, Tough Conversations, Engagement Economics And Work-Life Balance #FridayFinds

Hppy

Although it’s tough to outshine a news like the Panama Papers leak, we’ll still going to try and bring into focus some of this week’s best articles in the HR world. Here they are: Inside the happiest office in London — where some employees get a $14,000 travel allowance. Glassdoor’s 2016 rankings named online travel company Expedia as the best place to work in the UK.

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The Employer’s Guide to Early Cancer Detection

A comprehensive early detection strategy for cancer is no longer a nice-to-have for employers; it’s a must. The reality is 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, and the physical, emotional, and financial impact on both employees and employers is great. To help improve your employees’ health outcomes and reduce cancer-related costs, download The Employer’s Guide to Early Detection.

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Reinventing The Career: What Should Organizations Do?

Josh Bersin

One of the most disruptive changes we’ve seen in business over the last decade is the end of the traditional “career.” People used to join companies for life: we would look for a. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Planning Your Annual Benefits Strategy

Trish McFarlane

If you’re a regular reader, you may have noticed I have not been as active on my blog. Over the years, I’ve written for several solution providers and other websites. I love to write, but since I’m only one person, if I am asked to write for another site, it typically means I don’t have time to write here too. I’m excited to share that I’m writing for ADP’s Spark blog.

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It's not just fun and games any more: why gamification matters in HR

HR Zone

Perform. Not just fun & games: gamification matters in HR.

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