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Ways to Combat Occupational Fraud

HR Daily Advisor

In a recent BLR article , we discussed the idea of occupational fraud, which is a type of fraud committed by employees against employers. Occupational fraud causes billions of dollars of losses for US employers each year. Source: ra2studio / iStock / Getty. Now let’s take a look at some of the ways employers can combat occupational fraud. From an HR standpoint, occupational fraud is something that hits home both directly and indirectly.

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The four-day work week: tips for a smooth transition

HR Zone

Change. The four-day work week: a smooth transition.

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How the Halo Effect Impacts Your Workplace

HR Daily Advisor

The halo effect refers to the idea that our overall impression of someone will directly impact how we perceive almost everything they do. If that person has an overall positive impression—a halo as it were—then we’re more likely to perceive everything they do more positively. Source: wildpixel / iStock / Getty. The halo effect can be the result of any number of things.

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Cartoon Coffee Break | Poaching Talent

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Cartoon Coffee Break " series. While we take talent management seriously, we also know it's important to have a good laugh. Check back every two weeks for a new ReWork cartoon. Learn how technology is changing talent acquisition —and how you can take advantage of it!

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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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HR’s Opportunity in Disguise: 3 Elements of Rapid Talent Allocation

Visier

Rapid talent allocation could be HR’s ticket to the proverbial “seat at the table.” According to a recent McKinsey & Company survey , being fast or very fast at moving talent among strategic projects is linked most closely with talent management effectiveness. Organizations with effective talent management programs, the survey reveals, have a better chance than other companies of outperforming competitors.

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Employee engagement: whose responsibility is it?

HR Zone

2nd Oct 2018. Employee engagement: whose responsibility is it? Employee engagement is a two-way street - managers have to actively listen to their teams, but equally team members have a stake in making. By. Jasmine Gartner. Training consultant.

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How Payments and Collaboration Are Evolving in the Gig Economy

TalentCulture

As the gig economy continues to expand and transform the workforce in significant ways, HR professionals and other business leaders should be thinking about the implications these changes will have for their organizations and their people. Millions of people are already freelancers, entrepreneurs and independent workers who rely on short-term engagements for all or part of their income, and the number is only expected to grow in the coming years.

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9 ways NOT to conduct a performance review

HR Morning

The end of the year will be here before you know it, and with it — for many — comes the annual performance review. . And while every good manager wants the review to be useful for the employee, many performance evaluations can get a little off track. Strangest reviews. Evil HR Lady Suzanne Lucas took to LinkedIn and Facebook to ask people for their stories about performance reviews gone wrong.

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The role of emotional intelligence for supporting mental health at work

HR Zone

People. Emotional intelligence and mental health at work.

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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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How to Post a Job on Facebook?

TalentLyft

Posting your job on Facebook is an easy, fast and affordable way to attract more talent. In this step-by-step guide, you will learn h ow to post a job on Facebook. We’ll also present the best practices that will help you target the best candidates and stand out from your competitors! Read More.

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How to Delete Candidate Data in Your CRM and ATS with GDPR

Workology

Now that the GDPR, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, has gone into effect (as of May 25, 2018), the time to prepare for the regulations has passed. It’s here to stay and it’s imperative that all companies that process personal data of EU citizens must comply or be subject to hefty fines. HR […] Source.

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Considerations for Continuous Background Screening in Healthcare

Precheck

Considerations for Continuous Background Screening in Healthcare Oct. 2, 2018. Bryan-Barajas.jpg. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. Although not a novel concept, the practice of continuous, constant background screening has recently gained momentum among employers. “Continuous screening is more widely available today than it was even a couple of years ago, due in large part to advances in technology,” Melissa Sorenson, Executive Director of the National Association of Professional Background Scr

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BetterUp and Workday Partner to Enhance Worker, Workplace Well-Being

BetterUp

Today marks another milestone in our company journey to help workers at all levels flourish in the workplace via the use of coaching, technology and evidence-based research. To better support our customers in this endeavor, we have deepened our strategic and business partnership with one of the most driven and forward-thinking companies in finance and HR today, Workday.

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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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Life Is Fragile

Chris Heinz

I haven’t written for a few weeks because for a couple of them, I was sick. It all started with some symptoms that looked like Lyme disease. I’m from Pennsylvania, which is one of those tick-rich states where Lyme is a threat. I went to the doctor’s office and he thought it looked like Lyme, so he prescribed an antibiotic called Doxycycline and ordered a Lyme test.

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Governor Signs New Employment Laws for 2019

HRWatchdog

Governor Jerry Brown signed several key employment law bills that businesses need to be aware of for the coming year. With a few strokes of his pen on September 30th, 2018, the last day to sign or veto bills, Governor Jerry Brown altered the landscape for California employers in a number of significant ways. Here are some of the new laws taking effect in January 2019 that employers should anticipate: Assembly Bills.

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How Productivity Analytics Tools Are Making a Difference

TLNT: The Business of HR

Imagine my surprise when I started receiving emails from Microsoft last summer that included descriptions of my Office 365 activity , like how much time I spent multitasking in meetings, who is my “top collaborator,” how much “focus time” I had, and the amount of time I spent working “after hours.” After my initial shock at how little focus time I had each week, I realized how powerful this information could be for both me and my team.

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Federal tax reform: 5 HR must-dos for every business

Insperity

When federal tax reform happens, it makes headlines across all media, with the news of sweeping tax changes and how they impact businesses and individuals. And, although change can be a good thing, that doesn’t mean it happens without some growing pains. Our nation’s first major tax reform in more than 30 years has spurred many business owners to spend hours with their CPAs and tax consultants over the past few months.

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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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Spicing Up the ‘Change Equation’ For Today’s Organization

TLNT: The Business of HR

Meaningful organizational change is the result of an optimum mix of several factors. Some of them are internal and largely controllable, whereas, others are external and primarily uncontrollable due to their susceptibility to outside influences.

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Be One, Get One: The Importance Of Mentorship

Forbes YEC Women

Mentorship is a movement that builds value for both individuals and businesses.

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Workin’ for a Livin’ – HR Style

Robin Schooling

Is work something we need to fix? Is work broken? Does work suck? Unfortunately, for far too many people, the answer is an overwhelming “yes.” Earlier this year my friend Laurie Ruettimann launched the “Let’s Fix Work” podcast where she talks with guests about all things careers, leadership and the future of work. A few months ago Laurie and I had a chat on “Let’s Fix Work” which you can listen to here.

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how to turn down a job offer

Ask a Manager

You applied, you interviewed, you got the job – and now you want to turn it down. How do you do it? Can you email or do you have to call? Do you have to give a reason? What should that reason be? What if you might want to work with that employer in the future? How do you avoid burned bridges? At New York Magazine today, I wrote about everything you need to know about how to decline a job offer gracefully.

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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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Should You Get Paid for Your Commute?

Commuter Benefit Solutions

Where do you draw the line between work and your personal life? Do you hop on the bus or subway to head home for the day and log into your email? Is there a church and state “wall” between when you leave the office and enter the next day? If you are working — even checking email on the commute home or reviewing a presentation over the weekend — should you be compensated for it?

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how should I handle outside emails about our employees that seem vindictive?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m a manager in the marketing department for a health care system that employs about 3,500 people. Because I manage the company website, I am also the person responsible for checking the general email address, e.g. info@teapotshealth.org. Every few months, I receive what I’ll call a “vindictive email” about someone who works for our system.

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Got Engagement? Great! Now for Conflict Management

EngagementMultiplier

We love hearing about the ‘unintended consequences’ of employee engagement, and one of them is this: When you’ve cultivated a highly engaged organization, you’ll quickly realize: Your employees have passionate opinions – because they care so much about what they do. Your employees interact with each other more, work more closely together, and often build friendships that extend beyond the office walls.

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is it okay for my employees to say they’re “just not cut out for public speaking”?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am a director level mid-manager at a large nonprofit. A large part of my role involves public speaking and training, which I enjoy and am good at. My team consists of my manager, also an excellent public speaker, and two people who I supervise, an associate director and an administrative assistant. The two people who I supervise are not public speakers.

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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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Other duties as assigned: How about 'Micro-influencer?'

Steve Boese

Calling your attention to a super read over at The Atlantic titled ' Employers are Looking for 'Influencers' Within Their Ranks ' that describes the relatively recent phenomenon of employers enlisting 'real' employees for what are, mostly, low-tech, minimal production values, and hopefully authentic advertising and branding campaigns. In what reminded me of the seemingly ubiquitous trend on TV spots where car companies tout their casts of 'Real people, not actors', The Atlantic piece breaks down

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my coworker is telling everyone he wants to ask me out, should I admit I had a nose job, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworker, who might be in junior high, is telling everyone he likes me and plans to ask me out. I work for a large company, and my job involves interacting with many departments. One man at the company, “John,” has apparently told several of our colleagues — who are also good friends of mine outside of work — that he intends to ask me out.

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Customer Service or Customer Care: What’s the Difference?

crewhu

Customer service has an inward flow. Customer care flows outward. You need to know who should practice each, and how both contribute to the overall customer experience. You wouldn’t be reading this if you didn’t have competitors that are snatching up prospects and customers. You do – and they can match you on price, as well as quality. How, then, do you differentiate yourself?