Thu.Jan 04, 2018

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Happy Friday. Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Sign-up for our weekly Hot in HR newsletter to get these updates via email. FUNDING. *This week’s Fundings: $110M+. NextCapital lands $30M Series C to grow its team and platform.

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Workplace Violence Training: Why Your Organization Needs to Do It

HR Bartender

Unfortunately, all we have to do to understand the prevalence of workplace violence in the U.S. is watch the evening news. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), over two million workers become workplace violence victims each year – ranging from verbal bullying to homicide – with the vast majority of incidents being unreported either out of embarrassment, fear of retaliation, or simply because the employees do not know they should report an incident. .

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Tips on RPO Selection: Why Choosing an Experienced Vendor is Vital

Aberdeen HCM Essentials

Companies using RPO partner services are around 40% more likely to establish an effective talent pipeline for their open positions. This is what Zachary Chertok, HCM analyst at Aberdeen Group reveals in his report, Recruitment Process Outsourcing: A Lifeline in the War for Top Talent. The report also found that RPO customers are 17% likelier than non-RPO customers to end up with a top-quality workforce.

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Why Employee Turnover is Also Bad For Your Employees

DailyPay

Turnover has obvious impacts on your organization, like increased reliance on recruiting or lost productivity. The impact turnover has on a business owner has been covered a number of times. But, a less obvious inclusion in the cost of employee turnover might be the emotional implications employee turnover has on your workforce. This hidden aspect can affect the workplace, and the true cost of employee turnover, in a number of ways.

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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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People Quit Managers, Not Jobs — 4 Keys to Effective 1x1s

Reflektive

The sun was beaming, the water shimmering and the roar of the crowd echoed in the background. I was in my first one-on-one with my new manager at Reflektive and we were partaking in what would become a regular highlight of my week, our walking one-on-one meetings around the San Francisco Giants stadium by the water. Since joining Reflektive last February I have noticed a marked shift in the effectiveness of meetings with my manager than in previous roles.

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The Top 3 Factors Influencing Employee Satisfaction And Retention: An Interview With Colleen McCreary

15Five

How do you look at The Employee Lifecycle ? Are you detached like a seasoned clinician who views patients in terms of mechanics, or are you involved like the newly graduated nurse who is focused on the experience of the person and the wellbeing of their body? Both have the best interests of the patient in mind, but there is a difference. Of course we are not talking about birth, adolescence and adulthood.

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Recognition, A New Year Resolution

Engage2Excel

Another year has gone by, and the time for making new resolutions has arrived. From being healthier and living better to being more kind – the goals are lofty for many. As I get back into the swing of things, I reflect on what I live and breathe every day: employee recognition.

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Top 3 Things HR Leaders Can Do to Impact Retention in 2018

Trish McFarlane

The best part of having a diverse career is taking what I learned as a HR leader, an industry analyst and now, a HCM product leader and marrying it together to determine what will work for CHROs and other HR leaders. I’m not thinking about “trends” here, I’m talking about tangible things that you can do today to make real impact in your organization in the next couple months.

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Key capabilities to look for in HR technology [Video]

PeopleStrategy

The right HR technology can bring your company to new heights of performance and engagement. However, the wrong system – or multiple, disparate systems – can cause stress and serious workflow disruptions. That’s why it’s important to choose a Human Capital Management solution that has the breadth and depth to empower your entire organization.

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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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Sexual Harassment policy

Workable

This sexual harassment policy template is ready to be tailored to your company’s needs and should be considered a starting point for setting up your company policies. The post Sexual Harassment policy appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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The Future of Business is Talent—and the Future of Talent is AI

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

By guest author: Duke Daehling, Director of Talent Management, Analytics and Strategy for IBM Smarter Workforce. The pace of business change is currently the fastest it has ever been; at the same time, it will never be this slow again. To keep up, industry leaders are reinventing themselves, turning chaos into opportunities across three key areas: Business disruption.

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Authenticity is the only way to engage with the smartphone generation

HR Zone

Employees. How to engage with the 'smartphone' generation.

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Gamify Your Onboarding and See Retention and Engagement Improve

TLNT: The Business of HR

Businesses are always looking to hire and retain great talent. However, a business’ growth and success are not always enough to retain its employees. On average, businesses lose 23% of all new employees within one year of joining. Some, more recent surveys, found the percentage to be even higher.

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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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Can You Accept Volunteer Labor?

HR Daily Advisor

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is seemingly straightforward on the matter of pay: employers must pay employees for all hours worked. But who is an employee? And can employers accept free work? According to one of the Department of Labor (DOL) fact sheets about the FLSA, “by statutory definition the term ‘employ’ includes ‘to suffer or permit to work.

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Handling A Multi-Generational Workforce with HR Software

SutiHR

Handling A Multi-Generational Workforce with HR Software Managing a multi-generation workforce is a new challenge for HR departments. Different demographics have unique values and expectations, but there are also common features of a satisfying workplace. Every employee, irrespective of their role, values an attentive and challenging work environment with career development opportunities.

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Employee bonus policy template

Workable

This employee bonus policy template is ready to be tailored to your company’s needs and can be a starting point for setting up your employment policies. The post Employee bonus policy template appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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How to achieve diversity through fair assessment

HR Zone

Acquisition. How to achieve diversity through fair assessment.

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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 your business can do to address the gender pay gap?

Sage HRMS

According to recent research from the Institute For Women’s Policy Research, women in the U.S. are still paid 20 percent less than their male counterparts performing the same job. The gender pay gap has been an issue companies in the US have had to pay attention to for decades. This gap has narrowed over time, […]. The post What your business can do to address the gender pay gap?

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3 Trends Transforming Training

HR Daily Advisor

What happens in a world where skills become obsolete in just a few years? Mobile training often is more practical than classroom training, too. Employees can tap in when they need information and are best positioned to absorb it. Gamification seems obvious when you consider how many of your employees play electronic games, whether it’s The Sims on a phone or Call of Duty on a huge TV.

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Top 3 Things HR Leaders Can Do to Impact Retention in 2018

Trish McFarlane

I'm talking about tangible things that you can do today to make real impact in your organization in the next couple months. The post Top 3 Things HR Leaders Can Do to Impact Retention in 2018 appeared first on Trish McFarlane.

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Service Awards May Be Old School, But They Still Help With Retention and Loyalty

TLNT: The Business of HR

Two big myths that still exist around service awards are that people aren’t interested in building a career with one organization, and the days of loyalty between an organization and an employee are long-gone.

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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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Want a High-Performing Team? Try SCRUM On for Size

FlashPoint

Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash. A Lesson on Teamwork Values From Rugby SCRUMs. I’m fascinated by the workings of agile teams – both what creates a high-performing team and how an individual team member can affect organizational health and performance.

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How Johnson & Johnson took a new approach to candidate attraction

Papirfly

Receiving a reported one million resumes for 25,000 jobs each year, recruiters don’t get much bigger than Johnson & Johnson. The global healthcare and pharma giant caught our attention recently, thanks to a range of initiatives geared at improving their talent acquisition process. So how does Johnson & Johnson do things differently? What can we learn?

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How SMBs Can Overcome Hiring Challenges

SutiHR

Hiring top talents is a tough task for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The traditional hiring process of job posting and interviews don’t always work for these companies. They need an effective recruitment process that can completely transform the way they search for and engage with talent. An online HR recruitment system that incorporates the.

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Strategies for an inspired workforce: 8 things to stop doing this year

Insperity

What do fireworks, the Times Square ball drop and resolutions have in common? They’re all traditions that have become standard practice for starting the new year on a positive note. New Year’s resolutions, in particular, offer an opportunity for renewed commitment and focus. It’s the closest thing to a re-set button in life – your chance to set new goals and work toward personal betterment over the next 365 days.

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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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Learn a new word: Nomophobia

Steve Boese

My son hassles me from time to time because I have, (again, from time to time), became irrationally worried when we are out and about and I notice the battery life on my mobile phone has dipped below, say 80% or so. It could be because I travel a fair bit and rely on my mobile more than most people for essential functions, or that for that last 7 or 8 years I no longer have a working 'home phone' so my mobile is the only way to contact me.

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OnCall Provides Accessible Health Care Across 18 States

Goodhire

Healthcare has not only become more expensive, it has also become harder to access, especially for rural Americans. From 2010-2014, 42 rural hospitals closed across the country. Moreover, no new hospitals opened outside of urban areas. Declining populations, hospital consolidations, reduction in inpatient occupancy, and lack of Medicaid expansion all are contributing to the cause.

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Do You Have the Right Leadership Style?

Extended DISC

If you had a tool that could further enhance your ability to lead others, would you use it? The DISC Assessment tool can help identify your leadership style and predict how you prefer to lead.