Tue.Oct 25, 2016

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Little Management Mistakes that Make Good Employees Quit

Cornerstone On Demand

Everybody knows that the most common reason for quitting is that an employee doesn't like the boss. Lots of people take this to mean that bosses whose employees quit are horrible people who yell and scream and micro-manage everything from font size to the type of fingernail polish allowed in the office. Those bosses absolutely exist, but there are other types of bosses that are generally good bosses—even generally great bosses—that still do little things that drive good employees insane.

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What to Do When Your Employer Brand Goes Bump in the Night

ClearCompany HRM

From ghouls and ghosts and long-leggedy crawlers , one of the scariest things that could go bump in the night is definitely your employer brand. Having a creepy or even invisible employer brand can affect everything from the candidates who apply to the engagement of your current employees. How can you shift your employer brand from trick to treat? Here are 5 ways to make it happen and turn your employer brand from frightening to an employer brand that attracts quality candidates.

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#FLSA Changes: How to Tell Employees They’re Moving from Salary to Hourly

HR Bartender

A few weeks ago, I answered a question from a reader about converting from salary to hourly status as a result of the upcoming changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA.) It occurred to me after I published the post that there might be organizations that are postponing or struggling with these conversations. So here are a few things to consider when it comes time to talk with employees about the changes and requirements of moving from salary to hourly.

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How to Spot Who’s Going to Quit Next

Achievers

Most of your company’s expenses are unavoidable, but employee attrition is one of the costs that you can have significant control over. Employee attrition can cost six to nine months’ worth of the departing worker’s salary, so it’s in your best interests to find ways to address employee attrition head-on. Of course it’s necessary to create a culture in your organization that makes people want to stay — but it’s equally important to be able to recognize w

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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 Create Employee Spotlights that Increase Engagement and Connection

15Five

When it comes to keeping employees engaged, one of the most important steps companies can take is to foster meaningful connections between coworkers. Helping people build relationships at work cultivates friendships, increases trust, and influences other key drivers of engagement. In fact, according to survey research, employees who have friends at work are seven times more likely to be engaged with their jobs.

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Could HR Have Saved Them? Exploring the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Disaster

Hppy

My forthcoming book, Unleashing Capacity: The Hidden Human Resources (2016) addresses a great many tools to help HR managers understand the innate importance of running HR like a business. As a strategic partner to the C-suite, we should act as the canary in the coal mine, warning of market conditions that can jeopardize the longevity of the company, possibly crippling it from any number of angles.

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Answering Important Questions – How Does Social Recognition Work in Manufacturing?

RecognizeThis!

by Traci Pesch. Recognize This! – All employees can benefit from the power of thanks, regardless of job type, function or role. I get asked lot of questions. As a mother, I hear interesting questions like: “Why does Moose’s (our pet guinea pig) nose move up and down and not side to side?” and “If the earth is round, do rainbows circle the earth? And if they do, where does the pot of gold go?

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Three Pillars of Successful Global Relocation Support

UrbanBound HR

A poor relocation can sour an employee’s relationship with a company, but a poor settlement afterwards can end the relationship completely. Moving to a new area is daunting. The time and mental energy required to learn new routes, meet new people, and understand the cultural quirks of a new city all pile up quickly. On top top of that, employees feel the strain of learning a new position and team of coworkers.

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Is Your LinkedIn Game Weak? Here's My Gift To You To Help Fix It.

The HR Capitalist

Some of you have beefing up your LinkedIn profile on your to do list. This one's for you. At Kinetix we're givers, and we'd like to hit you with some simple steps you can take to give your LinkedIn profile a facelift. By doing this, you can start taking care of your career by connecting and promoting who you are before you really need a strong professional network. .

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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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3 Types Of Employees That Managers Love

Hoops

What can you learn from that guy at work who always seems to get the plum assignments, or your co-worker who gets asked her opinion in every staff meeting? Plenty. There are certain types of employees who make a great impression on everyone, from subordinates to peers to executives. Here are three of them. 1. The Go-Getter. This person makes things happen, no matter what obstacles are in the way.

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Investing in Hardware To Help Attract New Talent

Everwise

Attracting new talent is no easy task for businesses in fast-moving sectors. To gain an edge over other establishments, some companies have found a new way to lure promising candidates into their office by investing in new technology. A report published by Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) , an international firm that specializes in commercial real estate services and investment management, revealed that competitive businesses are spending up to three times more on tech tools and digital integration.

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Your Talent Brand Matters More Than You Think

TalentCulture

It’s not enough to think of your company brand. Or your product brand. Or, actually, your employer brand. Think about it: being an employer implies having employees. But much of what we really have these days — partially influenced by Millennial values — is talent, who act less like employees and more like consumers. There’s a whole spectrum of talent out there, and many consider jobs as a pick and choose and change cycle — steps on a career ladder as opposed to the career in itself.

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The dishonest myth of work-life balance

Workable

There are some truly bad ideas that are nonetheless born survivors. The notion of “work-life balance,” popularized in the 1980s , has been the source of a deep well of human misery. And it is one that won’t tap out. It is common at this point to deliver a simplistic definition of the subject, a straw man, that is easy to knock down. But even a rounded definition of work-life balance, one that acknowledges its roots and good intentions, still leaves us with a flawed idea.

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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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Why We Need a Conversation Before Fearing Jobs Being Lost to Automation and Robots

TalentCulture

Before we can address the question of what jobs will be created for humans as automation takes over current roles, we need to focus on a question that most people are not asking. We have so many people talking about the future of work and yet, work has evolved so much over the last few decades that we no longer have an understanding of what work is.

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The Carnival of HR and the Old Days of HR Blogging

Steve Boese

I started blogging in about 2007, right about the time I started teaching a course in HR Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. For some reason in my HR Tech class I thought it would be a good idea to make sure the students knew about blogging - how to set up a blog, how to update a blog, how to write on a blog, etc.

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Payroll 2.0: A New Era for the First HR Technology Application

Ceridian

By Jim Konandreas, VP of Product Support, Ceridian. The HR function has been transformed by technology. It began long ago with the first application to impact the department – payroll software. As anyone who has been in the industry for a while already knows, the modern era of payroll is a far cry from the manual entry, paper-based filing systems that seldom involved any non-HR employee. .

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How Atlassian implemented a culture of innovation and continuous improvement

HR Zone

Culture. How Atlassian implemented a culture of innovation.

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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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The People Operations Toolbox

Everwise

Have you ever wondered if there was a way to design your experience at work so employees are happier, more productive, and more engaged? You’re not alone—there’s a fresh brand of Human Resources professionals in town, and they’re in the business of using technology, data, and strategy to transform employee experiences for the better. Nurturing and retaining talent have become high priorities for organizations, and with the rise of big data it only makes sense to ask how we can use such insights

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Future-Proof Your Learning Management System

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Written by: June Farmer and Kautul Mehta. During their downtime, your workforce enjoys the ease of Netflix streaming, the recommendations of Amazon, and the anytime/anywhere access to media they get from YouTube. Your learning and development team needs to create compelling content, resources, and learning courses that align with these new behaviors and preferences.

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5 Things to Look for in a Performance Coach

Reviewsnap

Performance coaching is a rather new management technique where a series of conversations are used to enhance employee well-being and performance. The premise of performance coaching is that employee development and productivity can be boosted by setting aside time to analyze how both leadership and employees can take their skills and performance to the next … Continue reading 5 Things to Look for in a Performance Coach.

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You’ll Improve Engagement If You Develop a Coaching Culture

TLNT: The Business of HR

Employee engagement continues to be a major workplace issue — according to Gallup, only 33.7% of U.S. employees feel engaged at work.

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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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LinkedIn Learning Is Free Until October 30 – Is It Good?

Workology

LinkedIn is offering a free trial of its LinkedIn Learning courses until October 30. The trial, which they’re calling a Week of Learning is meant to promote the courses and its new LinkedIn Learning app, both of which have been met with some suspicion. LinkedIn has a proven track record for networking, but are they the right people to trust with your career development?

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3 Questions to Keep Your Recruiting Aligned With the Business

TLNT: The Business of HR

As a business leader, you know who makes your company run. (Hint: your employees.) A study by SHRM shows that 95% of recruiters expect recruiting to be as or more challenging next year. Everyone wants to hire and retain the best, so we’re constantly revisiting and questioning everything we’ve ever thought we knew about the sourcing and recruiting process.

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Halloween and HR: Making Treats out of Tricky In-Office Holidays

BambooHR

In our industry, it’s sometimes too easy to see in-office holidays—especially those that involve costumes, like Halloween—as opportunities for trouble instead of fun. It can be hard for HR to encourage participation and a festive mood while simultaneously worrying about inappropriate behavior, offensive costume choices, or lost productivity. But when handled correctly, a holiday spent […].

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four updates from letter-writers

Ask a Manager

Here are four updates from people who recently had their letters answered here. 1. I think our employee lied about having cancer. We continued to have problems with the employee in question. She would stonewall me (ignoring me completely, including when asked about work tasts) but was continuing to tell other employees she had cancer. I started going back through records and schedules and found that she had called out 18 times in 4 months (in addition to additional time off requests that were gr

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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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T3 – Handshake @JoinHandshake

The Tim Sackett Project

This week on T3 I take a look at the recruiting platform for college students called Handshake. If you recruit new grads from college campuses you know the pain of not having a one-stop shop to get the students you need. Most companies still waste a ton of resources attending career fairs and negotiating individual college career offices one-on-one.

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Help Your Company Leaders Build a Culture of Employee Engagement

Paychex

Your company leaders are critical to building a culture of employee engagement. These four strategies may help you to support a culture engagement from the top down.

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Seasonal Affective Disorder is Real and It Might Be Affecting Your Business

Evil HR Lady

When it starts to get dark early–right now my kids are walking to the school in the dark, but after daylight savings ends, they’ll be coming home in the dark–you can get SAD. That’s short for Seasonal Affective Disorder, and it can really affect a person. And that means, it can really affect your business. To learn a little more about SAD and what managers and business owners can do to combat it within their offices, click here: Can Seasonal Affective Disorder Affect Your