Tue.Nov 15, 2016

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3 Proof Points to Inspire Leading a Mission-Driven Company

ClearCompany HRM

“Failure to meet a company’s mission-related needs is failure of leadership.” - Chris Groscurth , Senior Practice Consultant with Gallup Inc. Employees without a mission or goals are unlikely to succeed in your organization. In a recent study released by Glassdoor, “mission-driven” companies have 30% higher levels of innovation , 40% higher levels of retention with a tendency of being first or second in their market segment.

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’Tis the Season to Give Gifts … But Not That Gift!

HR Daily Advisor

The holidays are quickly approaching. Are you prepared? If so, did you remember to include your supervisor and other coworkers when purchasing gifts? In a recent survey from staffing firm Accountemps, the majority of Human Resources (HR) managers said it is acceptable for employees and managers to exchange presents in the office. So how much money should you be spending?

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The Dangers of Following the Herd: Is the Performance Review Really the Problem?

Cornerstone On Demand

Deloitte did it, and so did Microsoft and Accenture. They're the vanguards of a growing coterie of organizations choosing to ditch their yearly performance review and ratings in favor of more continuous feedback. The club of performance review ditchers is expanding rapidly. According to a recent international study by insight and technology firm CEB, 21 percent of organizations have either dumped or plan to dump their performance management rating systems and another 28 percent are consideri

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How to Boost Employee Engagement During the Holiday Season

Achievers

Keeping your employees fully engaged during the holiday season, from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, is challenging. Workloads can get heavier as co-workers take time off. Employees are thinking about friends and family members who are off work for the holidays. Children are out of school, complicating scheduling. Employees must work extra hours in order to meet customer demands.

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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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Amazon’s New Performance Review Process Will Be Employee-Focused

Reflektive

The Seattle area’s two big technology companies are Microsoft and Amazon. In 2013, Microsoft became one of the early major companies to overhaul its performance review process, eliminating stack ranking and adapting its compensation process to put more influence in the hands of managers. Now, Amazon is making changes of its own. We’re launching a new annual review process next year that is radically simplified and focuses on our employees’ strengths, not the absence of weaknesses.

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6 Tips on Being a Successful Remote Manager

Hppy

As the number of companies that offer telecommuting options rises, the need for a traditional office setting is shrinking. Workers are increasingly turning to their own kitchen tables and home offices as their workspaces of choice. But what does this mean for managers that work remotely as well? Without a traditional office setting, it may seem even more difficult to engage employees and keep projects on track.

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Interviewing Candidates? You Need To Watch Out For These Things

Spark Hire

When you structure an interview carefully and conscientiously, you’re setting yourself up to make a smart hiring decision. This directly correlates to reduced turnover, boosted employee morale, and increased productivity. However, some hiring managers unintentionally torpedo their own process with a few simple mistakes while interviewing candidates.

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The Secret Sauce to a Successful M&A

WorkHuman

“Everything changes and nothing stands still,” according to Heraclitus , a Greek philosopher. Buddhists promote a similar idea with their doctrine of impermanence , which states that all existence is transient, evanescent, and inconstant. Even if you take just a cursory look at the news today, it becomes clear that these concepts of change and impermanence could never be more relevant.

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Connecting HR with Business Value: One Company’s $6 Million Story

PeopleStrategy

Ask any business leader and they will tell you that HR is a cost center, not a revenue generator. It’s a challenge to be in a role that manages internal versus external clients because every investment and action is going to be scrutinized in a way that reflects this general view of HR. This should be a red flag for HR leaders; for the most part, we simply do not have the experience (yet) to create a solid business case, explain the value and influence decisions.

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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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The Decline of Social Snooping On Candidates and the Rise of the High School LinkedIn Profile.

The HR Capitalist

At one point, my advice for HR pros who were wondering about the ethics and legal exposure of digging around on candidate's social profiles was simple. "Just ask what your CEO wants you to do in order to have the best line of sight on a candidate. She probably expects you to do everything possible to fully vet and get the best candidate possible.".

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Stop Calling It Boring: The Importance of Knowledge Management

ATD Human Capital

Think knowledge management is a snooze? Think again. Without knowledge management, we would fail to share information with our co-workers, clients, and customers. We wouldn’t be able to branch out beyond formal classroom settings to enhance and develop employee performance. But who am I to tell you about the importance of this critical trainer tool?

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Three Key Office & Relocation Trends from 2016

UrbanBound HR

As 2016 starts to move from the windshield to the rear-view mirror, our hindsight is getting closer to 20/20. While our final report will be out soon, here’s a quick preview of the big stories in relocation from 2016.

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The Employee Development Honor Roll: Hitachi Data Systems

Kazoo

(In this blog series, we share the stories of companies that have taken the first steps toward their employee development transformation. You can read about our previously featured companies here: Patagonia’s transition to real-time employee development ; Adobe’s check-in culture ; Goldman Sachs’ decision to remove rankings and Gap’s new GPS system.

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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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6 Ways to Check Your Background Before You Apply for Jobs

Hoops

You don’t need to read a history book to learn about Hurricane Katrina or the Iraq War if you lived through these events. So why should you look into your own history when you have lived to experience every minute of it? If you are looking for a job, employers are going to look closely at your history in pre-employment background checks. Some perform background checks on everybody while others check candidates only after a job has been offered.

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Conservatives Necessary for Change: A Paradox? Part 1

ATD Human Capital

People have different attitudes toward change. Some love it, dream about it, get energized by it, and usually initiate it. They are lauded as champions of change. Sociologists have names for them: innovators and visionaries. Then, there are the people who hate change. Their argument is usually something like, “What’s wrong with the way we are now?

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Social engagement: a guide for the C-Suite

HR Zone

Change management. Communication. Innovation. Social engagement: a guide for the C-Suite.

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No Woman Left Behind: The Importance of Being a Female Leader

WorqIQ

Over the last 18 years, I have been a leader in various organizations. As my roles became more senior, I began to feel more acutely aware of not only my role as a leader, but the importance of being a senior leader who was also a female leader and generally in the minority. Read More» The post No Woman Left Behind: The Importance of Being a Female Leader appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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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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Zen and the Art of Culture Change

Culture University

I recently attended Human Synergistics’ 2nd Annual Ultimate Culture Conference in San Francisco. The presenters were professors, HR leaders, OD consultants, as well as CEOs and operating leaders. Corporate culture was presented and discussed from all angles: What it is, how to measure it, how to change it, how to keep it aligned, whether you […].

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How can generosity help with managing a team?

HR Zone

Managers. How can generosity help with managing teams?

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Cyberslackers – An Inside Threat

TalentCulture

Even with the integration of technology and a myriad of software solutions in the workplace, there has been a lack of measurable improvement in per-employee productivity. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that productivity has grown by about 1.3 percent per year over the past eight years. In the seven years before that, the productivity growth rate was double, at 2.3 percent.

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Employee Appreciation: The Butter for Performance Management Bread

Reviewsnap

Getting more out of an employee’s day is a top of mind subject for managers and supervisors across all industries. Facilitating an environment where motivation, engagement and productivity exists, is easier said than done! Appreciation is at the center of a great performance management plan. Recognition and gratitude for a job well done is not … Continue reading Employee Appreciation: The Butter for Performance Management Bread.

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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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6 Strategies to Effectively Use Video In Your Recruiting Efforts

Workology

Video is a part of our everyday lives. It’s what we use when we need to find out how to put together furniture, the thing we scroll past in our Facebook newsfeed 200 times a day and how we share special moments with family and friends. AT&T recently reported that 50% of its Internet bandwidth use is video. It’s also become a resource for us in the recruiting industry to reach candidates as they become more accustomed to and expectant of video in the hiring process.

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Bashing Millennials Got Old Real Fast. Here’s Why You Need Us in Your Workforce.

Compensation Today

It doesn’t take much more than a rumbling of the “M word” in your next meeting to get every executive in the room to start rolling their eyes. And let’s face it – millennial bashing is a real thing now , and it’s happening in all kinds of ways. The fact that nobody is buying diamonds anymore ? Blame millennials. The cereal industry is going under ? It’s because millennials are too lazy to eat cereal.

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Disengagement warning signs and a preventative approach

Ceridian

By Lisa Sterling, Chief People Officer, Ceridian. Employee engagement plays a paramount role in the success of an organization. But what isn’t talked about as much – and should be – is employee dis engagement. As Melissa Campeau pointed out in the September issue of HR Professional Magazine, research has found that, although most company leaders agree that having employees who are engaged is important, only 30 percent of workers are.

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The New Help Center: It’s Alive!

BambooHR

You can’t see us, but we’re jumping for joy. We’re finally ready to show you a project we’ve been working on for some time now, and we’re excited to see how the new Help Center impacts your BambooHR experience. Remember our old Help Center? We won’t be offended if you don’t. It was a […]. The post The New Help Center: It’s Alive!

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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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Who Is and Isn't Covered Under the New Overtime Rule

Paychex

The Department of Labor's final rule expanding the federal overtime regulations is scheduled to take effect on December 1, 2016. But the overtime rule won’t necessarily impact all exempt employees, so make sure you understand which employees may be affected.

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Should you hire more employees? 5 things to consider first

Insperity

Your business’s future looks bright, and the cash is starting to roll in. Maybe it’s time to hire some new employees? Hold on a minute. Like that Ferrari you have your eye on, just because you want new employees doesn’t mean you need or can afford them. It’s a decision that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Take the time to be cautious and strategic, and ask yourself these questions.

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Could ‘mansplaining’ create a gender-bias claim? It’s direct evidence of it says one court!

The Employer Handbook

If you’re: (a) new to social media; (b) watch Jeopardy ; or (c) hang out on Jezebel , you may be unfamiliar with what ‘mansplaining’ is. Mansplaining defined. Mansplaining is where a man explains something to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing. In Tucker v. Johnson (opinion here ), the plaintiff alleged gender discrimination based on a number of events at work, one of which was, well… She received a negative performance revie