Tue.Sep 06, 2016

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How Good Leadership Can Reverse Turnover

Hppy

Staffing is the lifeblood of my HR career. It’s where I truly got my start and really thrived. It’s one of the toughest jobs in our practice, in my opinion, and not just because I used to do it. Because there is rarely a client harder to please than a manager who just lost a treasured employee and not only are they looking to you to fill the position immediately, but they’re also wildly hurt and upset that “turnover is such a problem.”.

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Stuff Changes

Compensation Cafe

S tuff changes. That simple phrase has profound implications for total reward professionals. The way things change over time affects almost every compensation situation. Consider some of the typical challenges that arise. “She has already surpassed the quota demanded last year.” Performance output objectives valid in prior periods are irrelevant going forward.

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5 Unique Benefits of Competency Based Recruitment and Selection

ClearCompany HRM

The hiring decision assesses three components: knowledge, skills and competencies. Candidates must possess professional knowledge and institutional knowledge to perform on the job, and they must have the functional and technical skills required of the role.

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DOL Obtains ‘Double Damages’ for Intentional Misclassification

HR Daily Advisor

An employer and its staffing company will pay $1.1 million in back wages and another $1.1 million in damages to resolve U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) findings that they intentionally misclassified workers as independent contractors. Force Corp., a construction company, created AB Construction to provide it with much of its labor. Force Corp., however, prepared and controlled the payroll and payment procedures for both companies, DOL said in a press release.

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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9 Books Every Recruiter Needs to Read at Least Once

Linkedin Talent Blog

Sadly, summertime’s coming to an end. But, just because you’re no longer lying on a sunny beach doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t take some you time and settle into a good read. For many, deep diving into a text can answer our grappling questions, allow us to explore new ways of doing things and leave us more insightful, a bit more introspective and a little wiser on living.

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Can HR Be Trusted with Confidential Information – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

Working in a family-owned business is unique. That doesn’t mean it’s bad. It’s just different. How you view the situation could depend on whether you’re a member of the “family” or not. Today, many organizations allow family members to work together. Maybe not in the same department, but for the same company. Especially in larger organizations where family members might not have daily contact.

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The Difference between Employee Performance and Productivity

EmployeeConnect

We often tend to be confused when it comes to making the distinction between employee performance and productivity. Generally, we don’t manage to grasp the subtle differences between the management of these two concepts. While productivity management comes down to HR management systems, performance management actually is a tool that can be used to rollout the overall corporate strategy.

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How to Know If You Should Use Performance Ratings

Reflektive

“I’d love to get rid of ratings, but it’ll never get past our senior management.” This is a popular refrain among HR folks as industry leaders including Goldman Sachs and GE have stopped rating their employees in annual reviews. Research shows ratings are demotivating but HR and people operations departments often rely on ratings to determine compensation and avoid talent-related lawsuits.

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Form 5500’s Proposed Changes: An Update

ACA Times

News that the DOL planned to change Form 5500 surfaced several weeks ago and now more information has become available. In line with recent increased focus from the DOL and IRS on information reporting requirements under ERISA and the Affordable Care Act, these proposed changes have the potential to affect a broad range of health plans, and the employers who sponsor or participate in them.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Why Leaders Need to Understand the Difference between Influence and Manipulation

The People Equation

If you enact a leadership role, you have some measure of influence. And you also likely don’t see yourself as a manipulator. Do you know where influence stops and manipulation begins? Read on to learn what two prominent authors who’ve conducted extensive research on leadership and change management have to say about this important distinction. It could vastly change how you operate at work.

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Davos and HR Data

China Gorman

You’ve heard of “Davos,” the annual meeting of the global movers and shakers of business, held in Davos, Switzerland. But you might not be aware that the convener of that event, The World Economic Forum , is committed to “improving the state of the world and is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.” “Davos” gets lots of press, but the ongoing work of the organization provides a trove of data, analysis and information for any leader, in any organization, anywhere in the w

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Why the corporate world won’t adopt best practice from the Olympics

HR Zone

Business. Why the corporate world ignores Olympic lessons.

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How To Not Get Killed In A "What's Wrong" Focus Group At Your Company.

The HR Capitalist

Simple post today. From time to time, HR pros have to do focus groups to determine the climate of the employee relations environment at their company. Ideally, this is done before there's smoke in the air. But at times, especially in a multi-location environment, that's impossible. So how do you approach a group of 10-12 employees (focus group) to get them to talk about the challenges, but not get beheaded in the process?

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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Earlier Filing Deadline and Other Changes Coming for W-2s

Paychex

As an employer, you have two responsibilities with respect to Form W-2. Learn what you need to do and how new deadlines and other rule changes could affect your responsibilities in the upcoming filing season.

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Pay Close Attention to Candidate Experience for Long-Lasting Benefits

Entrepreneur

Re-engaging quality applicants is easy if they had a positive experience the first time around.

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Beer and dogs will only get you so far: how Hootsuite is attracting and retaining millennial talent

HR Zone

Retention. How Hootsuite is attracting and retaining talent.

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6 Ways Vision Will Inspire Your Employees And Culture

TalentCulture

Even as kids, we developed radar on leadership. Consider the classic schoolyard game, Follow the Leader. Everyone has to do exactly what the leader does, or they’re out. Growing up, I remember watching that game dissolve time after time. The leader would start doing scary climbs or huge leaps, and the followers felt put at risk. The leader would make seemingly pointless changes in direction, the followers got frustrated.

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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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Selves We Cannot Forgive

NoExcusesHR

I don't know about you, but I put a lot of pressure on myself. I'm not sharing that as some sort of martyr-type-play. I'm just stating a fact. Maybe you feel a similar level of pressure? Perfection Do you like your work to be 'just right?' I do. I like the thinking, planning and execution to be on point. As in, perfectly on point. The world is so quick to judge even the most minor error that, for me, striving to make everything perfect has become the norm.

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Confidence, Conceit, and Narcissism: Who is the Real Leader in Peanuts?

TalentCulture

In the age-old question regarding what traits make a leader, likeability is commonly listed. However, as Charlie Brown (and research) shows, your team ’ s affection may be overrated. When you think of the Peanuts’ gang, who is the leader? If your initial answer is Charlie Brown, I respectfully disagree. Charlie may be at the center of almost all the stories, but he is constantly stepped on, disrespected, and ignored.

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SMEs can learn lessons from Sports Direct scandals

HR Zone

Culture. SMEs can learn lessons from Sports Direct scandals.

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Will HR Be the Last to Actually Telecommute?

Workology

I was reading an article in Information Age the other day. The author was talking about importance of unified communication platforms at work. It is important to have good digital communication because that is an increasing need in the workplace and beyond for the reasons expressed below. In reading the article it made me wonder if HR will be one of the last groups to adopt telecommuting as a way of working.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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How can feedback affect reward & recognition?

HR Zone

Development. How can feedback affect reward & recognition?

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Performance Management that Won’t Scare the New Hire

Reviewsnap

You’ve heard the news. When it comes to hiring a new employee, you have maybe a month to impress and engage them into your organization. In fact, though nearly a third of new hires are seeking new employment within the first 6 months, up to 20% of turnover happens in the first 45 days. All … Continue reading Performance Management that Won’t Scare the New Hire.

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In praise of procrastination: the good, the bad, the ugly

HR Zone

Culture. Procrastination: the good, the bad and the ugly.

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5 Examples of Effective and Ineffective Employee Feedback

Quantum Workplace

Providing employee feedback in a constructive way takes practice, says Stanford GSB lecturer Carole Robin. And although most can agree on the importance of constructive feedback, few are practicing regularly.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

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

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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5 pitfalls to consider before setting up a mentoring scheme

HR Zone

Development. 5 pitfalls when setting up a mentoring scheme.

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Why Team Building Should Play a Central Role in Corporate Culture

Corn on the Job

To appreciate the implications of this statement, we need to understand what is meant by Corporate Culture. Only then can we explore how and why or even IF team building is important. “Corporate culture” is in fact a microcosm of national culture: the beliefs, behavior, dress, environment, habits, traditions, and personal traits reflected either on a national level or within an enterprise or organization of whatever size.

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Oops! I Forgot to Check My Email All Day. Spoiler Alert: No One Died

Evil HR Lady

Through a variety of circumstances, I ended up accidentally not checking any of my email accounts for an entire day. As an email addict, that’s a big thing. (And rather surprising that I didn’t notice I wasn’t getting email.). Here’s what happened and why you should consider turning off that little beep each time an email comes in.

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