Reflektive
OCTOBER 22, 2018
“Andy Bernard. Pros: He’s classy. He gets me. He went to Cornell. I trust him. Cons: I don’t really trust him.” – Michael Scott, The Office. Employees and managers need to be able to trust each other. Managers want to know that their team is going to deliver and employees need to know that their manager has their back. So, what can you do to develop employee trust?
Hppy
OCTOBER 22, 2018
It’s no surprise that lethargy goes hand-in-hand with a lack of motivation. Demotivated employees look tired, feel tired and are sapping the energy out of your business. Just like in a relationship, your employees passion and joie-de-vivre at work can wane and will need constant nurturing. When your employees become overwhelmed, or bored, energy can easily run dry.
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Digital HR Tech
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Human Resources models help to explain the role of HR in the business. In this article, we will go over the 5 most practical HR models. These models enable us to explain what HR’s role is, how HR adds value to the business, and how the business influences HR. The 5 HR models that we will discuss are: The Standard Causal Model of HRM. The 8-box model by Paul Boselie.
HireRight
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Next to seeing that one overzealous neighbor setting up his Christmas decorations in October, the most troubling aspect of the holiday season is retailers hurrying to hire elves temporary workers to handle the holiday rush. Some businesses may want to play Scrooge by not conducting background checks on temps. After all, they’ll be gone soon [.]. The post You Better Watch Out—and Run Background Checks on Seasonal Staff appeared first on Employment Background Check Blog - HireRight.
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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Cornerstone On Demand
OCTOBER 22, 2018
This is part of our monthly TED Talk Tuesday series, spotlighting can't-miss TED Talks and their key takeaways. You can learn more about our partnership with TED here. It's Tom Wujec 's job to analyze how humans share and absorb information. A designer and fellow at Autodesk, which makes design software for engineers, Wujec works to create technologies and strategies that help companies address their challenges in creative ways.
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eni
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Open enrollment periods are already in full-swing. As employees make benefit selections, HR departments are already looking ahead to next year’s benefit offerings in order to retain their best employees through 2020 and beyond. Employees in all industries want to feel cared for and comprehensive benefits communicate that support. Looking forward, unique benefits may even offset rising healthcare premiums, as cost of care increases, employees may be more willing to overlook rising premiums due to
ACA Times
OCTOBER 22, 2018
1 minute read: . IRS staff has confirmed that the agency will begin issuing Letter 226J penalty notices for the 2016 tax year in the next few weeks. If you receive a Letter 226J, you have 30 days to respond. The process your organization undertakes to develop your response needs to be focused and efficient. Last year we issued an infographic to help employers navigate their response to Letter 226J for the 2015 tax year.
Kazoo
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Two things we love here at Kazoo? Technology, of course, and giving back. Our newest initiative combines both. We’re so excited to participate in our first Hour of Code event later this week, with a special school that is close to my heart. What is the Hour of Code? The program’s purpose is to expose students of all ages and backgrounds to computer science in an approachable way.
TalentCulture
OCTOBER 22, 2018
At the 2018 Collaboration in the Gig Economy conference in Dallas earlier this month, I was struck by the keynote message, delivered by Dr. Vivienne Ming. Her thesis: There’s a lot of fear and buzz about AI taking over the workforce, but we will always need people’s problem-solving skills to supplement those algorithms. And because we’ll always need people, we’ll always need payments.
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TLNT: The Business of HR
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Engaged employees fully invest their best selves in the work they do. But what is employee engagement and how is it created? Employees and leaders intuitively know that when we find a place where we can throw our hearts, spirits, minds, and hands into our work, we are happier, healthier, and produce better results. Yet, most of us struggle to understand exactly why we engage in some environments and don’t in others.
Ask a Manager
OCTOBER 22, 2018
A reader writes: I have a male employee who will adjust his balls (over top of his pants) during most conversations I have with him. It’s distracting, a bit uncomfortable, and I have no idea if I should have this conversation with him or if so, how I would approach this issue in a respectful way. Does he even know he is doing it? Am I being unreasonable in pointing it out as a habit that needs to change?
Rise
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Why did the chicken cross the road? To pursue new career opportunities! Okay, that joke wasn’t very funny. Workplace humour is a hard thing to get right. However, research shows that laughter in the office is a seriously great thing for many reasons. According to a Robert Half survey , 91% of executives believe a sense of humour is important for career advancement and 84% feel that people with a good sense of humour do a better job.
HR Daily Advisor
OCTOBER 22, 2018
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is on its way to issuing a new rule to determine what workers are eligible for overtime pay, and employers are expected to see a salary threshold higher than the one that’s been in place since 2004 but considerably lower than the one previously sought. Source: bee32 / iStock / Getty. The DOL finished a series of listening sessions for interested parties on October 17 in which it gathered opinions from stakeholders.
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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.
Precheck
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Leading with Compassion in the Healthcare Workplace Oct. 23, 2018. Antique-Nguyen.jpg. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. “Put yourself in the other person’s shoes” is one of the most common idioms used for someone who lacks understanding or compassion for another person’s situation or point of view. Not only is compassion important for effective team building in the workplace, but in healthcare, it’s also critical for developing empathetic employees who care for vulnerable patients every day.
Symantec
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Nancy H. shares her experiences of being a Muslim woman in the world of engineering and business, and how it led her to empower other women to keep pushing for what they believe in.
Workology
OCTOBER 22, 2018
In part 1 of this series, we discussed cognitive bias and how it impacts the interview process. This article is a deeper dive into the ways we can minimize these biases to improve our hiring processes. How Ambiguity Affects Interview Outcomes This study shows that a few factors minimized the bias against women in male-dominated […] Source.
TLNT: The Business of HR
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Successful teams are made up of individuals with unique ambitions, strengths, and personalities. The secret to being a great leader is the ability to identify and leverage these differences to create a complementary and motivated workforce.
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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.
Evil HR Lady
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Everyone hates their annual performance review but we dutifully do them. (For some good reasons, but I digress.) I few weeks ago, I published 18 True Tales of Ridiculous Performance Appraisals , and what I got was even more tales of ridiculous performance appraisals. Enjoy, but managers, don’t use these a template. There was a statement about a complaint made on me the previous year.
Ask a Manager
OCTOBER 22, 2018
A reader writes: You’ve had several letters about how to tell a coworker or subordinate that they have noticeable odor. Well, yesterday I was on the receiving end of that conversation. My manager told me that multiple people have mentioned it to her, and she has noticed it as well. I’m mortified. I shower every day, wear deodorant and clean clothes every day, and I don’t think I sweat more than the average person.
Spark Hire
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Job seekers are starving. They’re craving as much information about your company as you’ll give them. They want to see the company’s mission in motion. They’re looking for how passions turn into productive output, and what you’re doing to empower a diverse workforce. They are expecting to see diversity across age, gender, ethnicity, experiences, and thought.
SHRM
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Rapid development of new business technologies and breakthrough innovations have become the new normal for organizations in the 21st century. Businesses are now more frequently encountering shifts in the global economy, changes to customer populations and fierce competition from an increasingly crowded marketplace. And when change is encountered, organizations and their employees are impacted in positive and negative ways.
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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?
Fast Company The Future of Work
OCTOBER 22, 2018
When the British street artist Banksy shredded his Girl with Balloon after it was purchased for $1.4 million at Sotheby’s , did he know how the art world would react? Did he anticipate that the critics would claim that the work, in its partially shredded state, would climb in value to at least $2 million? That the purchaser would not object and would instead rejoice?
SHRM
OCTOBER 22, 2018
In my 30 years of experience as an organization design practitioner, I’ve observed how commonly fragmented thinking occurs in business today. It has become ingrained into all aspects of organizations. It is a hangover from the Taylorist view of breaking work down into small, (supposedly) easier to manage and measure chunks. This ends up being formalized into organizational ways of working, structure, measurement and even rewards.
Fast Company The Future of Work
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Work hard in school, and you’ll be successful. That is something every kid in America hears, and believes. This mandate, though, leaves out an important side of the equation: Is school working for kids? For many students, the answer is no, but this can be hard to see–especially when the American dream ideal of self-determination exists to place the blame for why so many people struggle after finishing high school squarely on the shoulders of students themselves.
The Tim Sackett Project
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Do you know what it felt like the last time you fell in love? I mean real love? The kind of love where you talk 42 times per day, in between text and facebook messages and feel physical pain from being apart? Ok, maybe for some it’s been a while and you didn’t have the texts or Facebook! But, you remember those times when you really didn’t think about anything else or even imagine not seeing the other person the next day, hell, the next hour.
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.
Fast Company The Future of Work
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Marriage is fast becoming a status symbol. In 2018, fewer people in the U.S. are getting married, but those who do are more likely to be economically privileged. A 2017 research brief found that 56% of middle class and upper class adults are married, but among working class and lower class adults, that number is between 26% and 39%. In 1990, more middle class and upper class adults were married—about 65%—but more than 50% of other adults were married, too.
TLNT: The Business of HR
OCTOBER 22, 2018
With the forecast for rapid growth in STEM-related occupations , today’s STEM jobseekers, especially those in technology, enjoy a vibrant career marketplace. Narrowing the focus just to technology, the future outlook is even better. The Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts employment in computer occupations will increase by 12.5% by 2024, creating nearly a half million new jobs.
Fast Company The Future of Work
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Designers, it’s time to stop talking about “empathy.” According to Google Trends, the term “empathy” now appears in Search more than six times as often as it did in 2004. Finding a job description for a design role that doesn’t mention “empathy” is near impossible. Undergraduate and graduate schools alike espouse “learning how to empathize” in the curricula.
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