Wed.Oct 03, 2018

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5 Things Keeping Financial Services HR Teams Up at Night

Cornerstone On Demand

It's an extremely challenging time to be holding the reins of an HR team at a financial services institution, with 45 percent of senior executives revealing their companies are hit by cyber attacks as often as on an hourly basis. Plus, as new technology emerges, so do new avenues for hackers to find vulnerabilities and attack. These ongoing data threats not only plague executives tasked with securing their organizations, but they also weigh heavily on HR departments in charge of hiring securit

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5 Key Tips To Remove Social And Cultural Bias From Employee Self-Evaluations

15Five

“How’s your tennis game?” (This probably seems like a strange way to begin a post about performing employee self-evaluations, but bear with me.). Last weekend, my husband and I went out to dinner with friends we hadn’t seen in years, back when I was an avid tennis player. As part of our catching up conversation, our friends asked me this question. “It’s fine,” I replied.

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4 Ways We Can All Challenge Ableism in the Workplace

Allegis Global Solutions

I have an invisible disability that I almost never disclose. I have severe, degenerative and genetic hearing loss and it impacts my ability to communicate. Aside from fear of discrimination, I also — and perhaps primarily — don’t disclose because I have an internalized stigma about disabilities. Cultural messages about disabilities come strong and steady from cradle to grave, coupled with the seemingly invisible interface of assuming that people are worth only what they produce.

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Your ACA Employer Mandate Questions Answered

ACA Times

2 minute read: As subject matter experts with ACA compliance, reporting, and related topics, we often times are asked questions about the law by our readers, which include insurance brokers, CPAs, HR specialists, business executives, and, of course, clients. We’ve garnered quite a few Q&A documents over the last 12 months and we want to share four of these Q&As with you to help with your ACA compliance efforts.

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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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Why don’t some employees trust HR?

PeopleStrategy

As an HR manager for a successful business, it can feel overwhelming to be responsible for the well-being and performance of an entire organization. And, at times, it may feel like you are in a thankless job. Sometimes, having to focus on everyone else can blind HR team members to their own mistakes or apathy. Both are dangerous to the company; they can cause widespread discontent as well as the loss of valuable employees. “More than 70% of surveyed tech employees said they didn’t tr

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Do You Care About Onboarding? You Should! [INFOGRAPHIC]

BambooHR

Table of Contents How Long Should Onboarding Last? Why Do New Hires Leave? How Can You Improve the Onboarding Experience? Onboarding Infographic Each of your employees only gets to experience one first day on the job. Effective employee onboarding on day one (and through the weeks and months thereafter) can mean the difference between an […].

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Does your HR system bring your services to life?

HR Partner

Pop quiz: does your company provide HR or payroll services or both? While this question comes across as a very dull and obvious one, it is one that more companies should ask before embarking on their HR transformation journeys. This question is more relevant than ever before as most companies are spending a significant amount of time and money on projects, with the hope to ultimately transform their employee experience (EX).This employee experience is significantly impacted by HR services and sy

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One Big Takeaway from the New Workday-IBM Watson AI Partnership

Advos

If you haven’t heard, some interesting news came out of the Workday Rising conference on Tuesday. Workday and IBM have formed a partnership that will make two of IBM’s artificial intelligence capabilities—Match Score and Requisition Prioritization—available in the Workday Recruiting solution. Match Score and Requisition Prioritization are part of IBM’s Watson Recruitment Express.

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Q3 2018 HR Tech Venture Capital Review

WorkTech

Q3 surpassed all expectations for global HR technology venture capital investment, itself exceeding all of the VC we tracked in 2017 and bringing the year-to-date (YTD) 2018 dollar volume to nearly triple what was invested last year. With nearly $1.2 Billion USD invested in Q3, that brings the total year-to-date to $2.83 Billion. And, barring […].

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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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Leadership tips: why managers must put ‘care’ at the heart of their people strategy

HR Zone

Culture. Managers: time to show you care.

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No One Works There Because You Have a Foosball Table

TLNT: The Business of HR

Ping-pong tables, nap-pods, endless snacks and beer on tap are the hallmark perks of trendy start-ups, tech companies and creative agencies, but what value do they really hold? Sure, they rank high on the cool meter, but how tangible are they when it comes to attracting and retaining top talent?

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Five ways for women to take the reins on their leadership development

HR Zone

Development. Taking the reins on leadership development.

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The data is in: Here’s what matters to B Corp employees

CultureAmp

As part of a dedication to operating more sustainably, in October 2017 Culture Amp became a B Corp. In my last article, I shared three tips for companies looking to complete B Corp certification , based on our experience. Here, I step back into my role as People Scientist and share what we’ve learned from the B Corps who use Culture Amp surveys.

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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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Stress in the workplace: four ways HR can help alleviate this prevalent employee burden

HR Zone

Employees. How to manage stress in the workplace.

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Work is Broken

Root

“Employee engagement.” The phrase first hit the scene in 1990, when William A. Kahn used it in an article he wrote for the Academy of Management Journal. Since then, the business world has become more than a little obsessed with these two little words. CEOs, human resources executives, managers, and thousands of others have spent hours upon hours contemplating just how their organization can make a dent in the country’s dismal 30% employee engagement rate.

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Want to Spark Innovation? Start by Changing How You Listen

TLNT: The Business of HR

With millions of messages bombarding us every day, the ability to listen is becoming a lost art. As leaders, we need to be able to hear what can move our businesses forward. After all, none of us is as smart as all of us, right? So why are we failing at listening? Have our smartphones made us dumb listeners, looking for ways to turn off instead of tuning in?

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The borrowing behaviours of your employees: what you need to know

HR Zone

People. The borrowing behaviours of your employees.

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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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Learnings from @ImMollyBloom and Molly’s Game at #RNL18

The Tim Sackett Project

Out at Jobvite’s Recruiter Nation Live conference and had the opportunity to see Molly Bloom, author of the book and screenplay of Molly’s Game. If you haven’t seen the moving or read the book, go do it, great story. I was fascinated because at her core Molly is a world-class athlete who had to stop competing due to major injuries, but it’s rare for anyone to become world-class in anything.

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Can Employees Tell You, ‘I’m Not Meeting Without Representation’?

HR Daily Advisor

As an HR professional or a business owner, you may—or may not—know that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the federal law that governs the relationship between unions and employers in the private sector, also applies to nonunion employers in certain situations. For instance, the NLRA covers all concerted activity by employees, whether it occurs in a union or nonunion workplace.

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Are Your Employees Taking Lunch Breaks? Here’s Why They Should

Evil HR Lady

The harder your employees work, the better, right? Not quite. Breaks at work, from regular lunch hours to informal opportunities for socializing, are essential for your employees to reach their full performance potential. Here’s why. The Importance of Lunch Breaks for Employees. First, your brain needs a breather. We all understand that if people do physical labor, their bodies need to rest and recover.

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4 Ways You Never Thought of to Improve Executive Diversity

TLNT: The Business of HR

Don’t be confused by the title of this DisruptHR talk. “Making The Most Of Your Seat At The Table” is about leveraging that seat — or your near seat — to advocate for diversity. That doesn’t mean charts and graphs and programs to create a more balanced workforce. Lori Knowlton’s talk is about modeling the values of diversity and gender parity in particular.

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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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5 types of corporate culture you should avoid at all costs

Jostle

Have you ever started a new job and within a week thought to yourself, “I’ve made a huge mistake”? Maybe the job and your team seemed great at first, but the culture turned out to be a little too much to bear.

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How Technology Helps Us Make Better HR Decisions

HRExecutive

With the HR Technology Conference just completed a few weeks ago, I have had some time to attend a few industry events, record new episodes of the HR Happy Hour Podcast , and give a presentation on data, technology and decision-making in HR and talent management. In preparing for that talk, I referenced two highly recommended books, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellberg; and Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal,

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my boss says I ask “why?” too often

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a tendency to ask why things are the way they are at work, because I like to know how everything fits together. Recently, it has come to my attention that my asking “why” doesn’t always come off well with my manager, who seems to take it as a challenge to her authority. That being said, I am writing to ask you a “why” question: why do you think that my manager feels that “why” questions are an affront to her authority as a manager?

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Sexual harassment: why employers need to listen and learn from #MeToo

HR Zone

Culture. #MeToo – one year on.

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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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Do Nice Leaders Finish Last?

DDI

Soft skills help address hard issues, so what’s wrong with being a leader who’s nice?

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meal trains for coworkers in crisis, I have more experience than my resume indicates, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Meal trains for coworkers in crisis. I’ve appreciated your consistent message that gifts should flow downward, not up , which makes a lot of sense for holidays/birthdays/happy occasions. I’m curious about your thoughts on meal trains (or other forms of support) in times of crisis — is that in a different category than regular gifts?

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Leveraging The Benefits Of Big Data In Payroll

Analytics in HR

The big data revolution is transforming the business landscape – not least in the form of the benefits, it can deliver for payroll departments. The modern business landscape thrives on information – not least in payroll departments, where employees must handle a variety of specialised information to carry out the pay process each month. But data is only as useful as your business’ ability to exploit and handle it – which is why the big data revolution is such an interesting proposition for payro

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