How should you manage pay raises for employees? These aren’t easy questions to answer, but human resource managers can get a head start on them by looking at what other companies in their industry are doing. Only 6% of employers exercise zero-tolerance policies toward workplace bullying. Source: Public Personnel Management ) <<Tweet this stat. Source: American Management Association ) <<Tweet this stat. MORE

According to Evers (2014), strategic workforce planning is becoming increasingly important for a number of reasons. Talent management: Talented employees form a competitive advantage for the company. Having people with the right drive and lining up a talent pipeline to replace the aging group of senior management and executives in the company is essential. Overhead and management are of secondary concern. MORE

How should you manage pay raises for employees? These aren’t easy questions to answer, but human resource managers can get a head start on them by looking at what other companies in their industry are doing. Only 6% of employers exercise zero-tolerance policies toward workplace bullying. Source: Public Personnel Management ) <<Tweet this stat. Source: American Management Association ) <<Tweet this stat. MORE

As an HR professional, you know that a conversation about performance provides an equal opportunity for managers and employees to talk about what’s going well, what needs to improve, and how things are going in general. More importantly, a manager has more opportunities to coach and provide employees meaningful feedback to employees if they know more about how a particular project or assignment is going. Communication 360-degree feedback employees learning managers MORE

This global industrial gas company worked with a third-party training vendor in Fall 2014 to create content for “Unconscious Bias to Conscious Inclusion”, a half-day training program offered to all Praxair leaders, says Vanessa Abrahams-John, chief diversity office for Praxair. “We We started offering the training to help our managers understand how unconscious bias can derail our diversity talent management efforts and their decision-making processes. MORE

The company created a hiring exercise, My Dream Employee , aimed at bridging the gap between HR, marketing, and culture. After completing this exercise, the company involves current employees in a hiring process that includes one-on-one interviews as well as meet and greet with the employees the candidate will be working with. According to a 2014 Harvard Business Review article , the vision says what the organization wishes to be like in some years’ time. MORE

"If the employee has spent countless hours at work, think about what he or she might have sacrificed in order to be your high performer," says Lisa Orndorff, an HR business partner in the HR department for the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM). Jena Brown, a Twin Cities-based talent acquisition operations consultant, says company size, industry and culture all play key roles in the type of awards and recognition organizations dole out. MORE

Figuring out just what you’ll need to pay for a good performance management solution can be an exercise in frustration, obfuscation, and “request a price quote” buttons that will turn even the most sunny optimist into a jaded software cynic. Performance Appraisal Talent Management benefits of performance appraisal software features of performance appraisal software performance appraisal software talent management MORE

Sure, recruiters are looking for talented people, with industry knowledge and an impressive skill set; that is always important, but, they are also looking for more creative talent, which will add value to the company by bringing innovation and new ideas. These types of questions, along with encouraging creative responses, gives the interviewee the opportunity to demonstrate their talents as it relates to the position and establishes their knowledge of your company. MORE

Ever since the CoBies — Google’s multidirectional Conference Bikes that transform going for lunch into a team-building exercise — the image of millennials in the workplace has turned into a kind of perpetual second-guessing. The very term millennial has marketing-ploy written all over it; and that works contrary to the role of HR, which is to recruit talent. Here’s the basic premise to recruiting talent: Recruit talent. MORE

Attracting top talent will also become more challenging as potential hires are not only looking at salaries, but also quality of the work environment. Rating based reviews on websites like Glassdoor are helping hires become more selective and raising concern amongst companies over the potential for disgruntled employees to scare off new talent. study shows that 98% of employees fail to be engaged when managers give little or no feedback. MORE

The career HR executive-turned-talent management software company CEO faces a daily struggle to codify the employee engagement, talent analysis, and retention nuance that’s so deeply entrenched in his brain. That exercise is covered in Talmetrix’ license fees. MORE

Companies looking to differentiate themselves are turning to HR technology as it becomes clear that attracting and retaining skilled talent is key to providing superior employee experiences. When CEOs lack the talent resources to pursue business opportunities, HR has to acquire or develop the right employees to handle those opportunities. RO: HR executives are seeking new tools for data-driven people management. By Rick O''Herron - Originally posted on NetSuite Magazine. MORE

Figuring out just what you’ll need to pay for a good performance management solution can be an exercise in frustration, obfuscation, and “request a price quote” buttons that will turn even the most sunny optimist into a jaded software cynic. Performance Appraisal Talent Management benefits of performance appraisal software features of performance appraisal software performance appraisal software talent management MORE

In this organizational context, values are moving from a PR exercise to become the guiding compass, not only for progressive, enlightened organizations but for more well established corporates too. Best of TLNT Best practices Company culture core values Engagement HR management Leadership talent management Editor’s Note: It’s a TLNT annual tradition to count down the most popular posts of the year. This is No. Our regular content will return on Jan. MORE

We design learning programmes with exercises designed to accelerate and embed the learning. In relation to HR technology, he talks about the shift from Talent Management towards Team and Work Management, focusing today on systems of productivity and making the work better. David James is Digital Learning Strategist with Looop and was Director of Talent, Learning & OD for The Walt Disney Company’s EMEA region until 2014. MORE

While studies show that 88% of employees found praise from their manager highly motivating and 76% found peer praise very motivating , we don’t need surveys to know that thanking someone for the work is a good thing to do – our own experience tells us that. Now, enjoy the sensation of appreciation and affection that you get from this simple exercise. Leadership Talent Management Workplace Culture and Innovation appreciation celebration feedback teamwork MORE

According to the 2014 Brandon Hall Group Social Talent Acquisition Study, only 8% of companies are trying to improve candidate experience with their social recruiting practices. If we look at what companies are focusing on, such as attracting more talent, strengthening the employer brand, or reducing sourcing costs, it’s easy to see how those could translate into improved results both for recruiting and for the business. MORE