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should you mention an employee’s smell during a reference check, and more

Ask a Manager

Should you mention an employee’s smell during a reference check? A few years back, I managed an employee who was on a performance plan and was on the verge of being let go. I had never been listed as a reference and neither was the other manager here. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. Was that wrong?

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More CHROs are investigating cafeteria plans for benefits. Should you, too?

HRExecutive

CHROs and benefits leaders are increasingly considering so-called cafeteria plans, experts say, as a way to both save organizations money and provide flexible benefits to employees and potential hires, a key hiring and retention tool in today’s challenging labor market. The plans offer tax advantages for employers and employees.

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Assessing Values in Online Technology Part 4

HR Examiner

We used email lists to target HR executives. The breakdown of participants looks like: CHRO and Vice President of HR: 30%. The survey was sent to approximately 50,000 HR professionals and leaders in the US and 16,000 in the UK and Europe. Workforce Planning. IBM HR Solutions. We did not purchase any responses.

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Organizational Commitment: 7 Ways HR Can Contribute

Digital HR Tech

What can HR do to increase organizational commitment? Organizational commitment refers to the connection or bond employees have with their employer (the organization). Engagement refers to how happy an employee is in their job, while commitment refers to how much effort an employee puts into their job. They both are.

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How to Solve Hiring Problems in Manufacturing with Employee Recognition

Semos Cloud

HR professionals working in the manufacturing sector are facing the greatest challenge of their generation – how to attract younger workers and solve the hiring crisis. million in 2010. Net promoter employees are HR’s stuff of dreams. However, the labor market has been through tectonic changes since the early 2000s.

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Post-Brexit Workforce Challenges: How to Strategically Plan Through Ambiguity

Visier

For HR leaders, these trends will undoubtedly lead to medium- and long-term impacts on the supply and demand dynamics of talent strategy. But as the old adage goes, a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor, and there is an opportunity for HR leaders in all of this. Brexit: Strategic Implications for HR. They are a necessity.

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5 Reasons Why Your In-House HR Assessment Will Fail (and how to avoid that)

Analytics in HR

HR analytics is about using data for informed decision making. The majority of variables of interest regard the H – human – in HR. We need them to provide key information to answer research questions. We also use them to predict the impact on other HR variables and on business outcomes. job engagement).