Tue.Aug 01, 2017

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Apply the Right Solution To the Situation

HR Bartender

I heard a speaker recently mention Type I and Type II failures. The way they described it was, a Type I failure is an irreversible failure and a Type II failure is reversible. One might say that Kodak is a case study in Type I failure. A recent article in Harvard Business Review summed up the story pretty well. A generation ago, a ‘Kodak moment’ was something worth cherishing.

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Cafe Classic: The Compensation Cookbook

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: Here, for a little midweek fun, we bring you Jim Brennan and his long-awaited, utterly authoritative and instantly gratifying dictionary of compensation decisions. Imagine having the solution to every pay issue in one volume! The Compensation Cookbook will solve all your problems. It promises to provide the perfect recipe for virtually every Total Rewards challenge.

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Control, Services and Decisions: The Evolution and Impact of the HR Value Proposition

Visier

Does HR drive more effectiveness and organizational performance by improving traditional HR value propositions, such as compliance and services, or by improving decisions? Beyond HR , which was published ten years ago, advocated a “decision science” to advance HR, talent management, work, and organization design. A notable analogy in the book is based on Finance’s history of three fundamental value propositions: Control: Adding value by ensuring compliance with rules, laws, and guidelines.

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Moving Toward A Coaching Leadership Style

Everwise

Effective leadership techniques have evolved over the last decades, and continue to become more refined. Though the workplace hierarchy is still alive in most organizations, the way leaders relate to their reports has changed to keep up with the times and make employees more productive. Command-and-control style leadership has fallen out of fashion.

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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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5 Recruitment Trends for 2017

Hppy

According to a Jobvite research , HR professionals report it’s becoming increasingly difficult to fill open positions, and 65% of recruiters claim that talent shortage represents the biggest challenge in hiring. Namely, as the labor market tightens, talent acquisition professionals have been asked to fill more positions offering alternative job arrangements.

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The Business Value of HR Technology [Research Preview]

Lighthouse

Within the next few weeks we are going to be releasing our research summary from the 2017 Lighthouse Research Business Value of HR Technology Study. It has been fascinating to examine some of the data and we haven’t yet finished writing up the findings; however, I wanted to take a moment to explore a few of the key insights here. Top 5 Research Highlights.

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Get Your Business Data Organized

ACA Times

At times, companies may feel like they are swimming in data. It’s an information overload, and a lack of organization can lead to many mistakes in consolidating, validating and analyzing data, particularly when it comes to complying with government mandates such as ACA filings with the IRS and EEO-1 reports with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

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3 Questions To Ask Before Picking Your Company's Health Insurance

Justworks

If you’re one of the many small- to medium-sized employers looking for the best health insurance plan, you’re not alone. The right plan is not just about the price, but also how useful it is for your employees. Before determining the right health insurance your employees should have access to, these three questions might help you out. 1. How Much Does the Plan Cost?

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It’s a Small (but diverse) World: Performance Management for the Global Organization

Achievers

I’m not going to lie to you: rebooting your performance management to effectively drive organizational performance, develop people, and reward equitably requires a good deal of serious thought. Managing performance at a global level, however, warrants serious thought on steroids. You must have a solid understanding of the legislative and regulatory issues, demographic trends, and labor laws from every jurisdiction in which you’ve got people.

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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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How to Ditch the Inter-Office Email and Communicate Better

TalentCulture

If you are still using email or the speakerphone at work to communicate with your coworkers or employees, it’s time to change. In fact, if you’re not taking advantage of the multitude of technology tools and platforms designed to improve workplace communication and collaboration in real-time, neither you nor your employees are working as efficiently and smartly as you could.

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Are HR And Finance Finally Going To Be Friends?

China Gorman

How on earth can it be August 1 st ? For that matter, how on earth can it be 2017? After taking off three weeks for vacation and business travel commitments, it’s time to be back considering new research and data of interest to the HR community. And here’s an interesting report from Oracle and MIT Technology Review. My friends at Oracle sent it to me, and I’m glad they did.

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These Days, We’re All Disgruntled Workers

TalentCulture

The average Goldman Sachs employee earns in excess of $350,000 per year, and we’re assured Greg Smith, who most visibly quit his job there last week, was paid substantially more. And, in leaving his long-time employer, Smith didn’t abandon just a fat salary. To regain his career freedom, he knowingly forfeited a considerable sum in deferred compensation as well.

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Manager Talking Points for Compensation Conversations: Part I

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. When Employee Pay Is Low. So the employee is near the bottom of their range for pay. The first step in compensation conversations is to consider the following: Should the employee pay be low?

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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 to Consider When Submitting a Background Check: Turnaround Time Demystified

Precheck

What to Consider When Submitting a Background Check: Turnaround Time Demystified Aug. 2, 2017. Antique-Nguyen.jpg. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. As an employer in healthcare, running employment background checks is an integral part of your hiring and talent qualification process. It reduces compliance risk and ensures your due diligence in promoting a safe working environment to deliver quality patient care.

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It Takes An ‘Awakening’ Before a Feedback Culture Can Flourish

TLNT: The Business of HR

Implementing a culture of feedback from scratch at a company is no simple task, especially if it hasn’t historically been a part of the company’s values. Too many times, managers and HR teams view feedback as a way to critique associates’ performance, and to highlight where they need improvement – which is exactly the wrong way to approach it.

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5 Tips to Make Better Workplaces for Millennials

Great Place to Work

Much of Corporate America has spent the last decade loosening dress codes and adding gaming consoles to break rooms to better connect with younger employees. The result? Gallup reports that about 60 percent of Millennials are exploring new job opportunities, and turnover among Millennials is three times higher than for their older colleagues. So what makes members of this generation commit to a company?

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Workology Acquires #HR Blog, Performance I Create (PIC)

Workology

In 2007, I started Workology, originally called Blogging4Jobs and built my blog focused on providing HR and recruiting practitioner resources. We’ve been committed as a community to sharing our. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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Employers Should Stop Asking for Salary History, But Not for the Reason You Think

BambooHR

Several U.S. states or cities have recently introduced, or are considering, a ban on employers inquiring about the salary history of job applicants as part of more extensive equal pay legislation. The reasoning? Because women still face a pay gap in comparison to similarly qualified men – 2.4 percent based on PayScale’s most recent gender equity […].

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5 Ultimate Culture Insights from Top Culture Pioneers and Progressive Leaders

Culture University

Do you fully understand your culture and how it’s impacting performance? Are you managing a clear journey to effectively evolve your culture with a direct and sustainable impact on performance? There aren’t many leaders that can confidently answer “yes” to these two questions. We see culture tips and advice at every turn that range from […]. The post 5 Ultimate Culture Insights from Top Culture Pioneers and Progressive Leaders appeared first on Culture University.

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Providing outplacement to laid-off employees: 5 perks and 5 pitfalls

Insperity

Calling layoffs “tough” may be the understatement of the year. They can be downright traumatic for both the employer and soon-to-be ex-employee. In fact, according to the American Psychological Association , some laid-off employees move through the five stages of grief associated with loss when they lose a job: denial, anger, bargaining, depression – and finally acceptance.

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"Who" Is Your Recruitment Strategy

NoExcusesHR

I hear lots of discussions that go something like this. P1 "So, what is your recruitment strategy?" P2 "What do you mean?" P1 "You know, are you using LinkedIn more, or spending money on Indeed?" P2 "Oh, yea, we're looking into that, and definitely use LinkedIn. Yes, we're obviously doing that. So, what are you doing?" Me Take me now, Lord. What All too often talent acquisition leaders get caught in the trap of narrowly defining their strategies as a series of "whats.

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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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Why It’s So Important that Employees Share Your Values

Workology

Job ads that emphasize values can sound a bit corny. I’ve definitely found myself sneering at ads that gush about the company culture and how important cultural fit and values are. Like, Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Be yourself! Individualism in the workplace

HR Zone

Culture. Be yourself! Individualism in the workplace.

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What Is a Voluntary Benefit Plan?

HR Daily Advisor

A voluntary benefit plan is a suite of benefits offered by an employer that is voluntary for employees to use and is typically paid for by the employee via payroll deductions. These types of benefits are usually offered in addition to the core benefit program provided by the employer. They represent extra benefits that the employee can opt to use at his or her own cost.

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If you want to be a great leader, it pays not to be too smart

HR Zone

Future. To be a great leader, don't be too smart.

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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 Talent Acquisition? What is Recruitment? Learn the Difference

Cielo HR Leader

Are you able to explain the difference between talent acquisition and recruitment? Perhaps it all seems clear cut to you, but many people still lump them together as though they are interchangeable. Not only is this confusing, it also shows why there is little consensus on what it would take to transform talent acquisition from being a reactive and transactional function to becoming the strategic partner to business it should be.

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Around the Bonfyre with Kris Jones of DairiConcepts

Bonfyre

Employees are the drivers of company culture at DairiConcepts, an international provider of dairy-based food ingredients, and it’s Kris Jones’ job to support that culture with hires who thrive in an environment of empowerment, innovation, and collaboration. As the Senior Manager of Talent Management, Jones’ role at DairiConcepts touches on everything from recruitment and onboarding to training and development to employee relations.

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Speed of Change is the C-Suite’s Biggest Concern

Great Place to Work

For years, the number one concern of CEOs has been recruiting and retaining talent. At this year’s Great Place to Work Conference , several CEOs said that the speed of change was keeping them up at night. This isn’t a signal that recruiting and retention aren’t important anymore. In fact, recruiting and retention are a given. Like profits.