Mon.May 07, 2018

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How To Make Your People Plan Bloody Brilliant

Hppy

The human resource plan is the expression of how the organization intends to acquire and retain the skills and competencies it needs to execute its strategic game plan. The plan should also address how to deal with existing skills and competencies the organization possesses but no longer requires. Also read: How To Align Your People Plan With Business Objectives.

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Can You Terminate an Employee Who is Unable to Return After 4 Months of Disability Leave?

HR Daily Advisor

It is well established that employers are not required to provide an indefinite leave of absence to accommodate employees’ disabilities. In the following case, the employer terminated the employee after she had been on leave for a little more than 4 months. Ekaterina79 / iStock / Getty Images Plus. However, because it wasn’t clear when the employee would be released to return to work, the court held that the employer didn’t discriminate against her on the basis of her disabilit

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unlimited time off, I don’t want to talk about my vacation, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I have unlimited PTO — and get asked to make up time anyway. I’m having trouble with one aspect of my new job. I am salaried and the company has an “unlimited PTO” system. I’ve worked at salaried positions for many years, but only with actual accrued PTO time. I’m the past, if I ever needed one hour or less off work (for a doctor appointment or something) I would just let a manager know and take it.

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Résumé Screening Is Not Very Effective

HR Daily Advisor

A new survey from staffing firm Robert Half suggests that companies may not be great at reviewing résumés. Source: VectorStory / iStock / Getty. Employers impressed by a job candidate’s résumé often discover the person isn’t such a good match for the position after all, research shows. More than six in 10 senior managers (64 percent) responding to the survey say it’s common for an applicant with a promising résumé to not live up to expectations when interviewed.

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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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What is the HR Business Partner Model?

Reflektive

The role of human resources is changing. The growing influence of automation and the need to deliver measurable value has transformed HR’s responsibilities. In the traditional model, HR departments were responsible for recruiting and hiring employees, administering payroll and benefits, and handling employee relations. Automated HR technology now handles many of those tasks, often freeing up bandwidth for HR to take on new responsibilities.

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Listen: How to Redirect Emotional Waste in the Workplace

WorkHuman

By Sarah Payne —. Is workplace drama an inevitable part of doing business? Cy Wakeman, WorkHuman 2018 speaker and president and founder of Reality-Based Leadership , argues there’s a better way. Cy started her career as a marriage and family therapist. She took what she learned about human behavior and psychology and now helps organizations improve the way they manage and motivate their people.

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Podcast: MAGIC – 5 Keys to Unlock the Power of Employee Engagement - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Join Dr. Tracy Maylett, for a presentation on “MAGIC: Five Keys to Unlock the Power of Employee Engagement.” Dr. Maylett will review the research behind the five keys and how managers can use MAGIC to increase engagement with their teams. During this podcast we will provide answers to the following questions: What is the personal benefit of being engaged?

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9 Employee Value Proposition Examples When Creating Your EVP

Workology

At its heart, an employee value proposition (EVP) is the unique set of benefits an employee receives in return for the skills, capabilities and experience they bring to a company. An EVP is about defining the essence of your company—how it is unique and what it stands for. An EVP describes the mix of characteristics, […] Source.

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#WorkTrends: The Mind of the Leader

TalentCulture

If you’ve ever wanted to know how to handle pressure and build great relationships as a leader, keep reading. This […]. The post #WorkTrends: The Mind of the Leader appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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 Trends in Workforce Analytics

Analytics in HR

Workforce analytics is developing and maturing. These are the 10 major trends for the near future. 1. From one time to real-time. Many workforce analytics efforts start as a consultancy project. A question is formulated (“How do our employees experience their journey?”), many people are interviewed, data is gathered, and with the help of the external consultants a nice report is written and many follow up projects to redesign the employee journey are defined.

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From the classroom to the workplace, valuable lessons learned

Everwise

National Teaching Day is a great time to celebrate the contributions of not just teachers who taught us in school, but to express appreciation for the valuable lessons received from workplace mentors. Teachers and mentors both play a crucial role in our personal development. They provide plenty of teachable moments, from telling us it’s okay to make mistakes to teaching us how important it is to take risks.

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Why Cultivating Diversity in the Workplace Matters at Justworks

Justworks

Diversity and inclusion (D+I) programs are really having a moment in tech, Hollywood, and a number of different industries around the country. Spurred by very public and viral movements like #MeToo, the importance of cultivating a diverse and inclusive culture that is fair and safe for all groups of people to work in has never been so relevant. According to Deloitte, 69% of executives rate diversity and inclusion as an important issue for their organizations.

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The Best Ways To Develop A High-Performing Business Culture

SutiHR

Today, most organizations are turning to cultural change to boost future growth and performance. In order to develop a high-performing culture, an organization should perform better than its peers in several aspects. These aspects include those such as business performance, innovation, workforce productivity, and engagement; all over a continuous period of time.

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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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4 Ways You Can Stomp Out Gender Biases in Interviews

Spark Hire

“Inherent biases exist.”. As much as everyone hates to admit we often allow biases to dictate our decisions, Mary Pharris , Director of Business Development and Partnerships at Fairygodboss — a marketplace for professional women looking for jobs, career advice, and the inside scoop on companies — is right. No matter how hard we try to extinguish them, they linger over hiring processes.

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Conference Twitter Primer #Unleash18

Advos

We're trying something new. Using HRmarketer software, we analyzed the Unleash Las Vegas conference site and tweets with the hashtag #Unleash18 to come up with a Conference Twitter Primer — all the information you need to socially prepare for this major HR event and be socially engaged with the conference. In this primer (below) we provide suggested [ ] The post Conference Twitter Primer #Unleash18 appeared first on HRmarketer.

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Best Interview Questions to Ask Job Candidates

TalentLyft

If you are an employer looking for the best interview questions to ask candidates in a job interview, you’ve come to the right place. This list of 55 interview questions divided into 11 categories contains every question you’ll ever need to choose the best job candidate. Read More.

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Listen: Brett Lutz on Employee Advocacy at Whirlpool

WorkHuman

By Sarah Payne —. Marty Neumeier, author of The Brand Gap , famously said a brand isn’t what you say it is; it’s what they say it is. This is true for consumer brands, and perhaps even more so for employer brands. Case in point: if someone wants to learn what it’s really like to work at your company, the first place they go will not be your careers page.

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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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Can your payroll system meet the challenges of the gig economy?

Sage HRMS

The gig economy is booming: As of 2017, more than 57 million Americans consider themselves freelancers, a group that will make up the majority of the workforce by 2027. Whether companies need a web development expert to finish a new app, or packing and delivery teams for peak shopping seasons, companies large and small are […]. The post Can your payroll system meet the challenges of the gig economy?

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Humanizing Your Employer Brand

WorkHuman

By Seferine Baez —. Technology gives us more information at our fingertips than ever before. There are millions of ways to connect. And yet, as Erica Keswin, founder at the Spaghetti Project, shared at WorkHuman 2018, “Left to our own devices, we don’t connect.” It can be challenging to communicate authentically, especially at a company level, but it is possible!

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5 Examples of Successful HR Innovation

Digital HR Tech

Here at Digital HR Tech, we talk a lot about HR innovation. After all, most of the HR technology out there aims to innovate existing HR systems and processes. As such, there are many examples of HR functions that have successfully been (partially) innovated. What is HR innovation? HR innovation is the implementation of new ideas, methods, and technologies to better meet the ever-evolving requirements of the organization and its workforce.

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7 Workplace Practices That Ensure Employee Happiness

Empxtrack

HR departments are often tied up with day to day processes like recruitment, training, performance management etc, that there’s no dedicated time left to see the welfare of the employees. And it’s a fact that no matter how efficient your business is, if employees aren’t happy with your work culture then all your efforts may go in vain. According to a Gallup study, “Only 30% of employees said that they feel engaged in their job.

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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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my boss is being a jerk about my gym time

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My company offers a full-service on-site gym, complete with group fitness classes during lunch and after standard business hours. I started going during lunch about seven years ago. By building a sustainable routine, I managed to lose 25 pounds before I got pregnant and over 50 pounds post-pregnancy. Our office treats us like adults, so as long as the work is done it doesn’t matter if I take a full 60-75 minute lunch to work out, shower, and grab a bite to eat.

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Top Companies That Adopted Objectives And Key Results (OKRs)

Engagedly

There are many companies which have successfully adopted OKRs and modified them based on their organizational needs and industry trends. Here’s a list of few companies that adopted OKRs successfully. 1. Intel The term OKRs was introduced by […].

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when writing to a hiring manager, should I mention a shared hobby?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I graduated with a master’s degree a few months ago, and have been looking for a job in my field ever since. I always thought that this degree would make my job search very swift and straightforward, as it’s in a red-hot field that generates more buzzwords than any other these days. The problem is, it’s a field that everyone wants to get into, and I happen to live in a metropolis where the supply of talent way outpaces the creation of jobs.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: The HR Happy Hour Show on Amazon Alexa - #HRHappyHour

Steve Boese

I have written quite a bit about Amazon, the Alexa platform, and how excited and optimistic I am about voice interfaces for all kinds of workplace applications. I have been so interested in how Alexa, and voice more generally are going to impact and influence workplace tech, that a few months ago I thought it would be fun and instructive to try and learn how organizations and developers can leverage voice in their applications.

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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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What is 4×4 Performance Management and Why Does it Work?

Reviewsnap

Annual performance reviews are a common part of the employee experience in most companies. Team members and managers get together each year to discuss what went well, what can be improved, and goals for the next 12 months. While performance reviews are important, some people think the traditional process is ineffective and needs to evolve. They believe the intended outcomes make perfect sense but rarely come to fruition.

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None of Us Are Rational, So Smart Leadership Means Learning to Deal With Emotions

TLNT: The Business of HR

Emotions drive behavior in the office, often much more than we’re aware of. To be more effective leaders, we need to become more attuned to our own emotions as well to those of the people around us.

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What Are Objectives And Key Results (OKR)?

Engagedly

OKRs stand for ‘Objectives And Key Results’. OKRs are a popular approach for goal-setting which allows employees to execute individual and organizational goals. OBJECTIVES are something that you want to achieve, and KEY RESULTS are a measurable way […].

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