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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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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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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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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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Why Growing Businesses Need People Analytics

Visier

According to Deloitte’s Human Capital Trends , 84% of leaders identify analytics as being very important to their organization, yet only 22% of organizations are making the investment. If analytics is the solution to improving the way we manage human resources and grow our business, why isn’t everyone adopting it? . Many business leaders know people analytics can help organizations improve HR functions, but they don’t know that it contributes to their business goals overall.

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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The ethical employee: a look at moral behaviour

HR Zone

Culture. The ethical employee's moral behaviour.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The ethical employee: what we bring to our business

HR Zone

Culture. What the ethical employee brings to business.

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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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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 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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Creating a Culture of Engagement Begins at the Top

C. A. Short Company

Rule #1* CULTURE: Create a culture of recognition that resonates through all aspects of the organization. Incorporate formal, informal, & day-to-day recognition into the strategic recognition platform. * From The 7 NEW Rules of Employee Engagement. Workforce engagement continues to be a major point of concern for organizations. Based on a 2012 Gallup poll, it was noted that 70% of employees are not engaged.

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Market Research vs. Marketing Research — What’s the Difference?

Qualtrics HR

Have you ever wondered about the difference between Market Research and Marketing Research? Although these two terms are often used interchangeably, they have some differentiating qualities. The core difference between Market Research and Marketing Research is the scope of the concept. First, Market Research is a more narrow concept because it is research focused on a specific market, place or location.

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The Epidemic of Loneliness

Root

Below is a guest blog from Robert E. Quinn. A recent survey conducted by Cigna found that 50% of Americans feel lonely. That is an astounding number. If you are standing in a room with one other person, one of you feels lonely. Here are a couple more data points from that study. Only around half of Americans (53%) have meaningful in-person social interactions, such as having an extended conversation with a friend or spending quality time with family, on a daily basis.

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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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Communication is Gasoline

Compensation Cafe

Imagine buying a brand new car. You have spent months saving up and doing research. You have spent weeks going to dealerships and doing test drives. You even got your friend who used to sell cars to go to the dealership to help negotiate the deal. You spend a bunch of money and sign on the dotted line and the vehicle is yours! Heck, the salesperson even makes sure the tank is filled before you leave the lot.

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Do Your Sales Conversations Harm Or Help A Prospect?

Forbes Coaches Council

As a salesperson, this subconscious judgment directly correlates with the trust you build, the level of honesty and vulnerability prospects invest in a conversation with you and their eventual willingness to embrace the idea of making a change.

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Why should you invest in recruitment videos? 

Rezoomo

Numerous studies indicate that candidates want more transparency and authenticity from employers and we agree! Employee featured videos talking about a new upcoming role or employees working together on a community project is a great way to humanize your employer brand. In saying that, when it comes to producing videos, employers must make sure that they are of high production value.