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3 Business-Critical Reasons to Invest in Strategic HR

15Five

Your strategic HR plan is like the blueprint for supporting your company’s long-term business goals. Why is strategic HR important? In companies where HR is treated as a primarily administrative function, business goals like increasing sales, improving customer retention, and growing market share are rarely considered.

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Weaving Success: Building a People-First Culture at Wajax

Blu Ivy Group

With over 25 years of experience in HR, Mark is a seasoned veteran in the field, and his insights into creating a people-first culture are nothing short of revolutionary. Mark also emphasizes the critical role of middle management in driving this cultural shift. The conversation is also a testament to the power of listening.

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Performance and Rewards: Differentiate Only When It’s Worth It

Visier

Merit-based rewards are seen as a hallmark of a “high performance culture.”. 91% of companies linked pay to performance in 2011 , up from 78% in 2009. 89% of companies differentiated performance using numerical ratings in 2014-2015. Microsoft abandoned its forced-ranking system in 2013.

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#HRSummitExpo - The Credible Activist ~ HR to HR 2.0 and Human.

Strategic HCM

23 HR Most Influential UK Thinker 2011. The HR Capitalist. 5 Things Every HR Pro Can Learn From Riley Cooper and the Eagles. Listed in SHRM Indias Top 20 Indian #HR Influencers Active on #SocialMedia. The New (Social) HR. McArthurs Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0. Fistful of Talent.

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Guiding Principles for Developing and Setting Employee Performance Goals

EmployeeConnect

It also provides regular formal as well as informal feedback about the performance of employees regarding their set goals. HR professionals need to ensure that all their managers are trained well on how to develop effective performance objectives and share and discuss them with each employee.

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WHAT IS THE WORKPLACE GENOME?

Human Workplaces

Our choice of this assessment is biased, of course, since we created it, together with our partner and HR expert, Charlie Judy, in 2015. Our first two books— Humanize in 2011 and When Millennials Take Over in 2015—provided a rich framework for understanding these changes. decentralization, systems thinking, transparency, etc.).

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This just in: Your employee engagement is down

Achievers

Poor team culture. Aon Hewitt recently released their disturbing analysis on employee engagement levels in 2011 in workplaces across the world. The findings reveal an engagement level of 56 percent thus far in 2011, which is the same as 2010, but lower than 2009 (60 percent) and 2008 (57 percent).