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ICYMI: 3 Theories on How to Motivate Employee Excellence

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: In today's fast-paced news cycle, we know it's difficult to keep up with the latest and greatest HR trends and stories. To make sure you're updated, we're recapping our most popular articles every month in our " In Case You Missed It " series. Keep reading for July's top stories! Here's What You Need to Know About Employee Motivation Understanding how to attract and maintain a motivated workforce is essential for every company leader's success.

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HR Crossword Puzzle

Don Phin

Do you enjoy crossword puzzles? If not…see you next week. If you do click here to try the HR Crossword Puzzle I created. As always, you will learn something in the process. Click here to download! PS speaking of puzzles, have you taken the 50 Question Employment Law Quiz yet? The post HR Crossword Puzzle appeared first on HRSherpas.

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Effective Mentoring Practices And How To Implement Them

Hppy

When we take a look at the challenges facing most organizations today we see an aging workforce, talent shortages, lack of succession development, lack of leadership talent, disengaged employees, and a mobile work force where employees continuously search for the culture that is a good fit for them. Trying to find a solution to these challenges is tough at the best of time.

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ACA Remains in Place, and a Study Highlights Potential Lack of Company Compliance

ACA Times

The recent failure in the U.S. Senate vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) leaves in place the ACA’s employer mandate. The employer mandate applies to businesses with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees, referred to as Applicable Large Employers (ALEs). As Congress was debating and ultimately failing to repeal the ACA, the IRS was moving forward with its plans to enforce the ACA and preparing for mandated information filings of 2017 tax year information in 2018.

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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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Analyze THIS: What HR Experts Shared in July

Kazoo

For this month’s recap of our favorite articles shared by the industry’s top influencers, we are spotlighting an HR analyst who celebrated the one-year anniversary of his firm, Lighthouse Research & Advisory , this month. Do you follow @beneubanks ? If not, well, you should. He just happens to be blazing a trail in HR research today, with a laser focus on the topics and trends that are impacting today’s HR leaders most.

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#WorkTrends Preview: The 2017 Paychex Pulse of HR Survey

TalentCulture

The role of the HR professional has changed over the past few years and continues to evolve. With the use of technology to monitor and analyze the state of company culture, brands have been better enabled to gauge the state of employee well-being and employee engagement. Today’s HR leaders feel they’ve evolved from serving a traditional administrative role to being a more strategic partner within the organization.

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What are the HR Processes That Can Be Readily Automated

Corn on the Job

The HR Department is a quintessential function in any organization. It plays multiple critical roles such as that of a resource management specialist, atraining facilitator, a policy change agent, a work environment custodian,partner, etc. With so many core tasks at hand, it is unfortunate to note that an HR manager spends an average of 14 hours a week doing mundane, repetitive paperwork, and as many 1 in 10, spend more than 30 hours a week doing the same (according to a research conducted in th

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The 5 Ingredients You Need to Make Organizational Change

Reflektive

There are three guarantees in life: death, taxes, and resistance to change. Let’s face it, people are creatures of habit and get comfortable in their routines, systems, and structures. Requiring them to break away from the familiar takes a seismic effort. But change is essential in business today in order to stay competitive, improve processes, and maximize results.

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HARVARD B-SCHOOL: 50% of Grades Are Based on Classroom Participation - Should You Do More of That?

The HR Capitalist

Here's an interesting business school item to compare to the business world - at Harvard Business School, it's common for 50% of someone's grade to linked to the frequency and quality of their class participation. That creates a dynamic in the "case-study" method of teaching that includes a couple of things: --People having to prepare more diligently for the material to be discussed.

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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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Inclusion is the glue: 5 ways to create a holistic diverse and inclusive company

HR Zone

People. 5 ways to create a diverse and inclusive company.

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How Managers Should Respond to ‘I Found a Salary Report Online’

Compensation Today

This is an excerpt from our recent ebook collaboration with BambooHR entitled Everything You Need to Know About Communicating Pay. Download the full ebook here. An employee brings a salary report to their manager and says, “According to this, I should be making $10K more.” How to proceed? A few things to note first: There’s a lot of conflicting information online.

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Employ people with disabilities: it makes sound business sense

HR Zone

Change. Employ disabled people: it makes business sense.

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Leading Analyst Firms Rank Kronos as a Top Human Capital Management Vendor Worldwide Based on Revenue

Empower Software

Kronos Incorporated today announced that Gartner, Inc. and International Data Corporation (IDC), two leading IT research and advisory firms, recently ranked Kronos as a top human capital management (HCM) vendor.

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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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Work teams need these six things to be successful

HR Zone

Culture. Work teams need these six things to be successful.

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Infographic: 9 Reasons Workplace Culture Matters

Great Place to Work

A great employee experience means a strong business. This is what the research has shown for decades. When companies create a workplace culture that values employees and builds work relationships high in trust, the business does better. In the ever-changing, ultra-competitive business world of today, that can mean a huge advantage. Yet for some, culture still seems like a “soft” topic – a nice-to-have that’s not core to the business.

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3 Ways to Hire Better Employees, Reduce Turnover, and Protect Your Business

Paychex

Background screens can play an integral role in the hiring process, as they can help small business owners hire employees, reduce turnover, and mitigate exposure to negligent hiring claims. Take a look at various items to look for as part of this screening.

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Just Take the Day Off, You’re Already Wasting It

HR Daily Advisor

If you look around your office right now, how many of your employees or coworkers are engrossed in their cell phones? It’s become all too common to see people more focused on a cell phone screen rather than what’s going on around them. But how is this trend affecting productivity? Would you like to wager a guess and see how much time employees are wasting doing personal activities on their cellphones, while they’re clocked in, supposedly working?

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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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What’s the Big Deal About Attention to Detail?

Criteria Corp

Look between “self-starter” and “excellent communication skills” on nearly any list of job requirements and you’ll find it: “attention to detail a must.” Almost every job post across almost every industry lists some variation on being “detail oriented” as an important skill. And true perfectionists are in luck, because this seemingly perfunctory requirement is actually critical to success in a ton of positions.

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Up Your Game with an Empowered Client Services Team

WorqIQ

You can come up with an innovative marketing campaign, hire a celebrity spokesperson, or build the best product, but there’s truly nothing like word of mouth. Your existing customers will always outsell you 10 to one. After all, people will trust a recommendation from a next-door neighbor more than any promotional information you have to offer. […] Read more.

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Would This Phone Screen Make You Excited?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Take a look below at the telephone pre-screen one of my clients uses for frontline, hourly employees. Now, if you were the applicant and someone called you, asked you all those questions, and then invited you to come in for a personal interview, how would you figure out if it would be worth your time and effort to go?

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In 100 Words: Immersion and Doing Work that Matters

QAspire

We cannot be anxious about something “out there” – a goal, a target, an external reward, a validation from others and generally things that feed our ego – and be immersed in what we do at the same time. To be able to do great work/art that changes others for better, we need to let “joy” rule us instead of “ego”. Then there is no self in the game: self is just a conducive medium for the inspiration to show up in form of work.

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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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What’s More Important? A Change in Technology or Mindset?

Workology

More and more I read that by the year 2020 40% of the U.S. labor force will be contingent workers. Supposedly the Millennial workforce and the coming Gen Z workforce are going to demand more freedom. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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European clients are sneering at my American colleagues’ table manners

Ask a Manager

I have a hectic schedule this week with preparing for a move, so some posts this week will be reprints from years ago (I’ll mark them when that’s the case), and we’ll have a few extra updates and “ask the readers” too. This one is from June 2014. A reader writes: I have a question which might be classified as an etiquette problem, but as it happened at work I thought you might have some insight on how to handle it.

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If You Hire In California, You Need to Know About These New Background Screening Rules

TLNT: The Business of HR

Several common background check practices became illegal in California last month.

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Open Enrollment Season – Tips for Success

Mercer

Thinking about open enrollment? The season is almost quickly approaching. Before doing anything, consider these 5 Tips for success. The post Open Enrollment Season – Tips for Success appeared first on Mercer PeoplePro Blog.

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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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New to HR? How to Talk About Politics

Workology

How to discuss politics at work? Ok, I’ll break it down: don’t! Ok, seriously, the topic of politics will inevitably be brought up in the workplace. Every HRPro has heard the saying, Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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[White Paper] Form I-9 and E-Verify Best Practices for Compliance

Precheck

[White Paper] Form I-9 and E-Verify Best Practices for Compliance Aug. 1, 2017. Bryan-Barajas.jpg. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. The Form I-9 process can have serious consequences for employers if it is not managed properly. In fact, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) almost doubled in size the fine amounts for I-9 violations in August 2016. In the latest PreCheck white paper, “The Form I-9 and E-Verify: Keys to Compliance,” immigration attorney Nicole A.

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How Pre-Employment Personality Assessments Can Help Recruiting Efforts

Acacia HR Solutions

For a long time now there have been great debates about the validity of personality assessments. Myers Briggs, DiSC and others have been regarded as useless in determining the way a person really thinks and/or works. I tend to disagree. I have been using personality assessments for over a decade and find that, at least.