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‘Shark Tank’-style competitions, free housing, and river cruises await Motorola Solutions interns

HR Brew

Don’t break out your hot pink Razr just yet—Motorola split into two separate entities, Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility, in 2011. Around three-quarters of this year’s cohort is from underrepresented groups. The company partners with HBCUs to recruit interns, and all are invited to join its eight employee resource groups. “If

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Can non-formal learning be measured?

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

As Mosher and Gottfredson said in their 2011 book “Innovative Performance Support,” “There is a huge gap between mastering content delivered in a learning event and being able to apply that content in an effective and productive way on the job.” These numbers encourage previously reluctant departments to quickly deploy the same training.

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Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies

HR Daily Advisor

Almost half of workers (46%) polled by staffing firm OfficeTeam said they know someone who included false information on a résumé, a 25-point jump from a 2011 survey. Fifty-five percent of employees aged 18 to 34 can name a person who fibbed on this document, the most of all age groups. “It

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HR 101: Let’s discuss the history of LGBTQ+ rights at work

HR Brew

This policy remained in effect until 2011, when President Barack Obama repealed it. President Bill Clinton signed “ Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ” in 1993, essentially banning members of the military from openly identifying as LGBTQ+. Quick-to-read HR news & insights. Subscribe to HR Brew today.

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Stop Spying on Social Media

HRExecutive

According to a 2011 court case, NLRB v. They not only run the risk of legal consequences, but they could also encounter reputational damage, which Brian Kropp, group vice president for Gartner’s HR practice, says can be even more painful than a lawsuit. “A

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Curing Healthcare’s Hiring Woes

HRExecutive

To address its staffing challenges, MSK’s talent-acquisition group realized in 2011 that it needed to develop a formal workforce plan. “We Market data shows that patients are at risk if the patient-to-nurse ratio is 4:1 or less, she said. “We We have to hire those nurses,” she explained. They have to be there ….”.

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Layoffs (Usually) Don’t Work and Why They Harm More Than Help

Workplace Psychology

Layoffs are more costly than many organizations realize (Cascio & Boudreau, 2011). In tracking the performance of organizations that downsized versus those that did not downsize, Cascio (2009) discovered that, “As a group, the downsizers never outperform the nondownsizers. Costs of Layoffs to Companies. Cascio, W. Cascio, W.