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Why role autonomy is vital for success – and how to encourage it

cipHR

Denying your people the independence to taken ownership of projects is a recipe for poor performance; here are five steps to supporting employee autonomy in your organisation. Having one or two micromanagers in your organisation might be troublesome, but it’s unlikely to threaten your success. However, having a business full of micromanagers – and, therefore, little employee autonomy – presents a much more significant threat to your organisation’s survival.

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Scaling Culture in Fast-Growing Companies is Critical

Blu Ivy Group

Find out how to scale up rapidly and grow your business with the right talent. Is your company growth explosive? Maybe you have to scale up so quickly that there is a constant stream of new team members. Or are you a high-growth start-up that just secured funding and needs to grow your team immediately? If you answered yes, to any of those questions, the stakes are high and you could find yourself at a tipping point with your workplace culture.

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Measuring Employee Experience via workflow efficiency

HR Morning

Businesses have historically been more concerned with customer experience than their own employees’ experience, but this is beginning to change. And it’s about time! According to a 2018 Gallup survey, only 15% of employees are engaged at work worldwide. This is astounding — and costly too. An earlier Gallup poll predicted that actively disengaged employees cost the U.S. $450 billion to $550 billion per year in lost productivity.

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Walking The Talk: The Most Important Questions To Answer Before Starting Your D&I Journey

Forbes Leadership Strategy

How do you ensure that you position yourself for success in your D&I journey?

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Protect Your Business and Stay On Top of Compliance

To keep your business running smoothly (and legally), HR needs to get compliance right every time. Our HR Compliance Checklist is your go-to guide to cover the basics and start your auditing processes, helping you identify and address any gaps in your HR functions. Remember, compliance rules can differ based on industry and location—you’ll still need to keep up with changing regulations, but our checklist can help you get started.

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I can’t fire an awful employee, coworker wants to standardize email subjects, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I have an awful employee I can’t fire. I am a supervisor at a facility that serves the public. Our job can be very rigorous and requires working long hours on our feet in all kind of weather conditions. It is often labor intensive and very active. One of my team, Jerry, was diagnosed with cancer a few years ago, just months after he was hired.

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3 Simple Ways You Can Secure Your Business

New to HR

Often when thinking about your business you will talk about areas such as profit margins, productivity, staffing levels, customer service but what about how secure your business is? This is an important area for any business but can quite easily. The post 3 Simple Ways You Can Secure Your Business appeared first on New To HR.

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The importance of HR management to your business in 2020

Genesis HR Solutions

As we inch closer to 2020, you may be thinking about how you can make your small business even more successful. Good for you! As you audit what works and what doesn’t in various aspects and departments of your company, you should pay special attention to what’s going on in the realm of HR. In this article, we’ll identify four common human resource challenges many companies are expected to face in 2020, and how human resource management can help you face these challenges head-on.

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10 Tips to Improve Your Company’s Organizational Culture

Achievers

I am often asked by company executives, “What is the one thing I can do to improve my organization’s culture?” The truth is that there is not simply one thing that will improve how your employees feel about what they do and who they do it for. We define culture as the collective hearts and minds of an organization. As such, there are many things that affect employees’ attitudes about their work and the company they are working for.

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WOH 64: How to Engage Remote Teams and Virtual Workers

UpstartHR

Today, almost every company has workers that are either remote, telecommuting, or virtual. There is incredible value in this for businesses and for workers, but the challenge comes in engaging these people that you rarely (if ever) see face to face. . In today’s conversation, Ben interviews Beth Hearn, an HR leader with PeopleStrategy who has a variety of experience working at technology firms with remote staff.

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Can Your Organization Spot a Conflict Before It’s a Crisis?

Speaker: Amie Phillips Pablo, VP, Corporate Compliance & Privacy Officer at Novo Nordisk

In today’s complex healthcare environment, navigating third-party relationships has become even more challenging—whether it’s vendor relationships, employee activities, or patient-facing interactions. Left unmanaged, these conflicts can compromise trust, regulatory compliance, and even organizational reputation. So, how can healthcare teams stay ahead?

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The ethical employee: a look at moral behaviour

HR Zone

Culture. The ethical employee's moral behaviour.

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Why You Need an Exit Survey Instead of Interviews

DecisionWise

When an employee leaves an organization, they take a lot of valuable information with them. Not only the insights about their work responsibilities or customers, but also valuable intel about their experience and the culture of the company. Leavers are in a unique position to summarize their employee experience, identify strengths and opportunities, and most importantly, share the reasons they’ve decided to leave.

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The ethical employee: what we bring to our business

HR Zone

Culture. What the ethical employee brings to business.

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the new overtime pay law is here (for real this time)

Ask a Manager

The U.S. Department of Labor issued a final ruling today on the question of what salary level should make workers exempt from overtime pay, and here it is: If you earn less than $35,568, then starting on January 1, 2020 you must be paid overtime (time and a half) when you work more than 40 hours in a week. There’s a bunch of history that brought us here: In 2016, the federal government announced it was making major changes to who is eligible for overtime pay and raising that threshold to

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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PeopleStrategy Partners with New Benefits to Provide Clients Access to an Expanded Set of Benefit Solutions and Services

PeopleStrategy

EDISON, N.J. — (September 24, 2019 ) — PeopleStrategy, Inc.® , a full-service brokerage and provider of comprehensive, cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions, and New Benefits , a leading provider of non-insured benefit solutions and services, have partnered to provide employers with innovative products that help their employees improve wellness, lower healthcare costs and protect themselves and their families.

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4 Ways to Increase Gender Equality in the Workplace

TalentCulture

The narrative around gender equality has largely shifted in the past few years, and organizations are beginning to recognize that gender equality in the workplace isn’t just an admirable goal — it can also drive profitability. However, we’ve got a long way to go until there is true gender equality in the workplace. Research shows that women are promoted at a slower rate than men, and if the current rate continues the number of women […].

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Why am I being ‘ghosted’ after I interview?

The Tim Sackett Project

Dear Timmy, I recently applied for a position that I’m perfect for! A recruiter from the company contacted me and scheduled me for an interview with the manager. I went, the interview was a little over an hour and it went great! I immediately followed up with an email to the recruiter and the manager thanking them, but since then I’ve heard nothing and it’s been weeks.

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The ethical employee: we have the power

HR Zone

Culture. The power of the ethical employee.

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The AI Productivity Shift: How 3,000 Pros And 140K Users Are Transforming Work

Hubstaff’s new report, The AI Productivity Shift, highlights how 3,000+ professionals and 140,000+ users are transforming the way they work with AI. Adoption is high—85% are using AI—and the potential is just beginning. Teams that integrate AI into daily workflows report 77% faster task completion, 70% improved focus, and stronger results across the board.

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FLSA Games: Exempt Salary Threshold Moves from 23K to 35K.

The HR Capitalist

Heads up, HR friends at all levels. Employees who make less than $35,568 are now eligible for overtime pay under a final rule issued today by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). The new rate will take effect Jan. 1, 2020. To be exempt from overtime under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employees must be paid a salary of at least the threshold amount and meet certain duties tests.

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Announcing the 2019 Top HR Products

HRExecutive

Welcome, once again, to Human Resource Executive ® ’s Top HR Products contest. Our annual awards spotlight 10 of the most innovative new solutions on the market that are helping business leaders meet the ever-evolving HR needs of their organizations. From speeding time-to-hire in the tight labor market to supporting enhanced employee engagement to deepening corporate commitment to diversity and inclusion, this year’s winners offer forward-thinking approaches to solving today’s most pressing HR c

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14 Renaissance leadership quotes that still apply today

Insperity

Even the best leaders can find themselves in a rut. If your leadership style feels stuck in the dark ages, why not turn to Renaissance leadership quotes to help move it forward? The Renaissance era is filled with guidance from forward-thinking and groundbreaking intellectuals. Let their points of view spark a fire in your leadership. Spanning from the 14th to the 17th century, the Renaissance is considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history.

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7 Tips for Coaching Employees to Improve Performance

BizLibrary - HR

While there are many important leadership skills and competencies, coaching skills are central to improving the performance of entire teams. The post 7 Tips for Coaching Employees to Improve Performance appeared first on BizLibrary.

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Building Compliant Workplace Violence Prevention Across States: CA SB-553 | NY S. 8358B

Speaker: Speakers:

Workplace violence prevention laws are rapidly evolving, with California’s SB-553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (S-8358B) leading the way. Join WILL’s experts for a nationwide webinar covering compliance requirements, with a special focus on these key state mandates. We’ll guide you through developing and implementing effective prevention policies, building a compliant plan, and delivering the required annual interactive training.

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How Workday Fosters Innovation with HR Analytics

Great Place to Work

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Top HR Product: Virtual Reality Inclusion Experience

HRExecutive

Human Resource Executive ® ’s Top HR Products contest spotlights 10 of the most innovative new solutions on the market that are helping business leaders meet the ever-evolving HR needs of their organizations. Here’s one of this year’s winners: Virtual Reality Inclusion Experience. DDI. What It Is: Virtual Reality Inclusion Experience provides an immersive, virtual-reality exploration of what it feels like to be undervalued because of insensitivity to diversity.

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our coworker asked us to help him eat better — and I’m concerned for his health

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I know you have discussed the office food police before and how to deal with them, but what if it’s policing someone who has asked for your help with their eating habits before and seems to have a possible eating disorder? I work in a very small office with less than 10 employees. One of our older employees has had two major surgeries in the two years he has been here that were directly caused by his obesity and dietary habits.

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The Weekly Check-In: How to Do It and Why They Are So Effective

6Q

While it should not serve to replace quarterly and yearly meetings, the weekly check in has several unique benefits that make it essential for modern organisations. The short chat aims to assess how the employee has been faring at work on a week by week basis. These weekly one-on-one check-ins result in improved communication between managers and team members, and this is just one of the reasons why they are very effective.

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Ready to Save Time With AI? Try 14 ChatGPT Prompts for HR

ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can help you quickly brainstorm, draft, and refine tasks on your to-do list. But it can take a bit of strategy and practice to get generative AI to give you the time-saving results you’re looking for. Try these 14 detailed prompts to unlock the power of ChatGPT. You'll discover ways to streamline tasks for hiring, employee engagement, and performance management.

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was my job interview full of red flags – or is it just me?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m wondering if a recent interview experience was normal or if I was right to run the other way. After months of searching, I finally got an interview. It wasn’t my dream company or dream job, but it was in my field and a great way to get started in a new city. But early on, some things happened that made me hesitant. The scheduling of the interview involved two people who didn’t seem to be in communication with each other.

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The Team-Building Mega-List: 40+ Team-Building Activities for Every Team Size & Budget

BambooHR

Depending on your personality, hearing the phrase “team-building activities” makes you either squeal with delight and anticipation…or squeal in anguish as you look around frantically.

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Why Firing a Problem Employee Can Be the Best Thing to Do

Evil HR Lady

Firing a problem employee looks so simple when you see it on television. The bad employee makes yet another mistake, the boss screams, “Pack up your things!” and it’s finished. Real life isn’t like that, though. There’s a lot more involved, which is why it’s common for employers to put off firing a lackluster employee, or even to avoid it entirely. Still, it can be (and often is) the right thing to do.

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