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Managing Sub-Cultures

Human Workplaces

One of the paradoxes of culture is that they are simultaneously centralized and decentralized. That is, while there should be a consistent, singular culture in your organization, you will also invariably have different subcultures that emerge. The larger your organization, the more apparent this will be. But sub-cultures are a double-edged sword. Sometimes the variation is exactly what that group or location needs to be more successful, and sometimes the variation is preventing them (and perhaps

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First-Time Managers: How to Get Started

Reflektive

After years of hard work, you’ve just been promoted to a managerial position. Chances are you’re feeling proud, excited, and probably more than a little nervous. How will you handle conflicts with team members? How often should you meet with your direct reports? Will your team respect you and trust your leadership? Ideally, first-time managers have been properly mentored and prepared for their positions, but not every company has a leadership or new manager training program.

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How Netflix and Starbucks Are Leading the Way with Employer Branding

Hireology

Job seekers today complete significant research when considering career moves, meaning any company’s employer branding is critical to hiring success. In fact, 69 percent of job candidates would reject a job offer from an organization with a bad employer brand. . Effective employer branding offers you the opportunity to excite top talent about joining your team, helping you stand out from other employers in today’s competitive hiring market.

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How to Turn the Summer Slump into a Productivity Bump

Workforce Opportunity Services

Summer slump: A period during the summer in which a person is less productive that can negatively impact business operations. Often a consequence of increased frequency of good weather, vacations (personal, colleagues and external business partners), and children being out of school. As temperatures rise, it's no surprise that those in the office are inside thinking of enjoying the summer breeze and beach getaways.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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13 Ways To Onboard Happy Employees and Increase Retention

Justworks

The onboarding experience is a crucial first impression for your new hires. As an employer, it offers the opportunity to set people up for success within your company, and feel that they’ve made the right choice in joining your team. In this way, onboarding is also helpful for employee retention. A great onboarding process helps new hires become effective employees sooner, which builds their confidence and helps them grow.

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Essential Features to Optimize Your Employee Attendance Management

SutiHR

From conventional punch cards to new access cards and biometric systems, monitoring working hours of employees has been an important process. All the employees are expected to monitor their clock-in time once they enter for work and clock-out time when they leave for the day. But, most employees fill out their timesheets in a rush, The post Essential Features to Optimize Your Employee Attendance Management appeared first on SutiHR.

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What great wellness programs do differently: 3 proven tactics

HR Morning

All wellness programs are not created equal. One-off wellness initiatives aren’t enough to achieve the ultimate goal, which is really two-fold: get employees healthier and keep healthcare costs down. Firms need to be smarter and invest in a well-designed health strategy in order to see a return, say researchers. 3-pronged approach. Effective wellness programs have good ROI of $1.50 to $3.00 per wellness dollar spent over a two to nine year time-frame, according to a recent U.S.

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Four ways to ensure the wellbeing of women at work

HR Zone

People. Four ways to ensure the wellbeing of women at work.

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ADP Women in STEM Profile: Monique Garlington

ADP

Monique's father and grandfather were amazing men who could design and build almost anything. Her dad used his technical skills to start and run a.

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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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The First National Healthcare Diversity Conference: 15 Years in the Making

Precheck

The First National Healthcare Diversity Conference: 15 Years in the Making Jun. 25, 2019. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. For 15 years, the National Diversity Council (NDC) has been a resource and an advocate for the value of diversity and inclusion (D&I). NDC’s efforts include its annual diversity and leadership conference, but this year, the healthcare industry will also receive its very own diversity conference focusing on the issues unique to healthcare organizations.

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WorkForce Software Announces Strategic Growth Investment from Evergreen Coast Capital

Workforce Software

WorkForce Software®, a leading global provider of cloud-based workforce management solutions, announced today a significant equity investment from affiliates of Evergreen Coast Capital Corp. (“Evergreen”), the technology-focused private equity arm of Elliott Management Corporation.

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How Does Meditation Improve Your Work and Home Life?

Take It Personel-ly

As of 2017, only 8% (or 18 million) adults in the U.S. said that they use meditation. Although the popularity of the practice has risen in the past decades (as reported by Forbes), many individuals are not yet harnessing its incredible, proven benefits to create a work-life balance. For those who are new to meditation, it […].

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How to Build an Employee Marketing Campaign

BackStitch

When a company rolls out any new internal communications systems, such as backstitch , it is extremely important that they also have a steady stream of content and a plan to distribute it. This content helps keep momentum going strong in regards to employee engagement. There are a lot of content marketing principles that companies can apply towards their own internal communications.

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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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10 Smart Things to Do in a New Job

45 Things

It's natural to be a bit nervous on your first day of a new job. You want to make a good impression and not mess anything up too much. Chances are, you'll be fine. If you care enough about the job to be a bit nervous, that means you're going to try hard to do all the right things. Still.some of you won't do the right thing. You'll make some rookie blunders that can damage your reputation.

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How to write a Post-Interview Thank You Note

HR Digest

Getting a job of your dream these days may require more than just performing exceptionally well at interviews. More than one-in-five (22%) of hiring managers in the US say they are not likely to hire candidates that didn’t send a post-interview thank you note, according to a 2011 survey by CareerBuilder. While some managers may say it’s not a criterion, TheHRDigest believes that writing a post-interview thank you note is a way of being more clinical and professional in any job hunt.

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Afraid Of Confrontation? 13 Useful Strategies For Approaching Your Boss With Negative Feedback

Forbes Coaches Council

Coming to your boss with a problem can be intimidating for anyone--but especially if you don't do so well with confrontation. Boost your confidence before you walk in the door with these tips from Forbes Coaches Council experts.

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Getting Past the ‘Start from Scratch’ Phase

Quickbase

In March 2019, Quick Base released the interactive Visual Builder , a building experience that uses a drag-and-drop interface to create tables, fields, and relationships from one screen. W e are excited to share with you the results from a survey that we conducted and use these findings to illustrate for you the value of this feature. . When building this feature, we expected the new experience to be more intuitive and approachable, especially for new builders.

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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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How To Hire The Right People Over Just Anybody

Forbes Coaches Council

Selecting the right person is one of the most important decisions you will make as a leader. Don't be in a rush to hire. Make sure you do a comprehensive assessment of each candidate.

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How Limeade is Celebrating Pride Month

Limeade

Earlier this spring, Limeade employees initiated a meeting to discuss meaningful ways to honor and celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month at Limeade in 2019. Several LimeMates identify and participate in this community, and as a company, we’re not only focused on diversity and inclusion efforts in our own office, but also how we can collectively maintain our values of diversity and inclusion across the board, for local and remote employees.

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Time Clocks Everywhere?

Workforce Software

On May 14th, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) delivered a ruling that could have a significant impact across the EU. Read this blog post to get a sense of what it will mean for employers and employees alike.

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Is Your Culture Directly Linked To Your Business? If Not, It Should Be

Forbes Coaches Council

Relationships throughout the organization will improve because everyone is much clearer about expectations, support and what it means to operate in teams.

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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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Making Compliance Easy in Japan

Workforce Software

Is your organization ready to confidently comply with the changing labor laws and regulations in Japan? Download our brochure to learn how WorkForce Software is making compliance easy.

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Improve Hiring by Turning Your Hiring Process into a Hiring Strategy

ApplicantPro

If you don't have a hiring strategy in place, don't be surprised when your hiring results aren't improving. Understanding the hiring process. For more than a decade, I have been running a Hiring Software company here at ApplicantPro. We began by building an Applicant Tracking System to help clients with their applicant sourcing and various other hiring needs.

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our boss’s wife camps out in our office for hours at a time

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for an accounting firm with about 40 employees. I’ve been there for about nine months now and generally enjoy it. However, the culture has been a bit difficult for me to adjust to. We sometimes have clients visit for meetings and because there is limited space at the office and it’s always busy, we have a system to make sure the meeting rooms are always available when needed.

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Why Qualtrics – Tim Strik – Customer Success – Dublin, Ireland

Qualtrics HR

At Qualtrics we want to connect our people to careers that feed their purpose; jobs that motivate & inspire them. This is Tim’s “Why Qualtrics” story. Three words (or phrases) to describe Qualtrics…. Innovative, pushing the boundaries & category defining, industry leading. Tell us, why Qualtrics? When I started my search to find a company that would be my first base of operations, I looked for a rapidly expanding company in the tech industry that would allow me to grow and ga

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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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Five Critical Rules To Abide By When Leading A New Team

Forbes Coaches Council

As the new leader, you get to choose how you want your new team members to feel when you walk through the halls of the new workplace.

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#Nextchat: Designing the Employee Experience

SHRM

. . Employee engagement levels in organizations worldwide have been in a downward spiral for decades. Turns out that creating a healthy, happy and productive workplace culture isn’t easy. Neither is defining it. What does the phrase “employee engagement” really mean? What are we measuring? It’s probably different for everyone, but most will agree that it’s about being emotionally committed to—and invested in—your work and your organization.

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Three Ways To Make Better Decisions Using Data

Forbes Coaches Council

With the endless amounts of data flowing towards us daily comes an expectation for a better, more accurate understanding and analysis of that data, usually in shrinking time frames.

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