Mon.May 14, 2018

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Bullying & Harassment at Work: What’s the Difference & Does It Matter?

Workology

In the #metoo movement, we are seeing more talk about what is bullying and what is harassment. Unfortunately, only one of these is against the law. Bullying, while not against the law, is still. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Research: What Drives Superstars to Quit

45 Things

There's an old saying: "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." But new research suggests that for some top performers, when the going gets tough -- they quit. Wharton professors Maurice Schweitzer and Katherine Milkman find that it's usually a good thing to set high expectations, because you generally rise to meet them. But, they also discovered that if you're tapped to be a favorite to win in a competition -- and you run into some difficulty -- you're more likely to quit.

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The Hidden Art of Becoming a Samurai Listener

HR Daily Advisor

We tend to treat the ability to listen well as a soft skill, or something with which you are born or otherwise mysteriously acquire. But it can be the crux trait for advancing your career. If you put the art of communication in business settings into the context of reading an opponent in the martial arts, you’ll recognize how listening effectively gives you an ability to sense opportunity and distinguish it from danger.

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What Is Employee Retention and What Factors Contribute to It?

DailyPay

Employee turnover and employee attrition cost your business money. Employee retention is how you combat turnover. Employee retention is an organization’s ability to keep its employees. Employee retention is usually represented as a percentage. For example, an annual retention rate of 80% indicates an organization kept 80% of its employees that year and lost 20%.

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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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Putting Technology on the Menu: Chick-fil-A Franchises Use Advanced Tools to Find Top Talent

ClearCompany HRM

“[ClearCompany’s complete talent platform] far surpasses other systems because you get more for your money. It’s got recruiting, onboarding, and everything else in one piece of software, and it is user friendly!”. As the Talent Director for two successful Chick-fil-A franchises, Lori Willis was in need of a modern recruiting and onboarding platform that is flexible, full-featured, affordable, and easy to use.

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Seven Deadly Words or Phrases to Avoid When Aligning Expectations with an Employee - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

George Carlin, an American comedian, once did a monologue about seven deadly words that radio stations should never broadcast – I’ll let you guess which words made the list. Carlin was right, those words are “bad news”— whether on the radio or in the workplace. In the context of managing employees, there are seven additional deadly words or phrases that should never be uttered when seeking to align an employee’s expectations.

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Directions to a More Efficient Recruiting Process

Hoops

For years, the road map was the best possible navigational tool a driver could use. “What could be better than the intricate detail and astounding accuracy of a map, printed on a large piece of folded paper that fit neatly in a glove box?” Maps were terrific until you had to read one yourself while driving and until you tried to fold one back up again.

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Let’s Talk About Failure And How Mentoring Can Help

Hppy

Failure and the fear of failure is something that we all have likely experienced at some time point in our life. For some, it is a daily occurrence and difficult to manage on your own. I want to spend a few moments to talk about fear and failure and how mentoring can help with managing these two challenges. The first step in our journey today will be to look at “failure”.

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Be careful! These books can change your career: People Analytics and HR-Tech reading list

Littal Shemer

Be careful! These books can change your career: People Analytics and HR-Tech reading list. Let’s face it. There are too many professional books one can read in a lifespan. This list of People Analytics books is not exceptional. I won’t be able to complete reading all of it, though I do have these books on my Kindle, ready for browsing. I find here inspiration, blended with practical guidance, validation for my practices, mixed with new ideas and innovative tools, but most of all, an “open

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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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#WorkTrends: What Modern HR Looks Like

TalentCulture

HR is undergoing a transformation. In fact, the very definition of HR is changing. But is that good or bad, […]. The post #WorkTrends: What Modern HR Looks Like appeared first on TalentCulture.

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The Art of Rejecting/Approval: Automatic Action Means You're a Complete ##$ - Or a Robot.

The HR Capitalist

The problem with tech, machine learning and A.I. is that we can at times do things too fast. This seems like a good problem to have in a world where most candidates for jobs go into black holes and never get feedback, right? Never getting action on something important to you is a HUMAN problem. Getting action within 1-5 minutes on something important to you is a TECH/A.I problem.

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Unlocking the Ultimate Employee Experience

Everwise

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to stay and it’s changing every aspect of how a business functions, including HR. These days, making a good impression with a prospective employer requires more than just a great résumé and pleasant personality. Today, potential talent have to first make it past machines that are being used to screen and identify the right people to help create more diverse, empathetic and dynamic workplaces.

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5 Essential Workforce Planning Tools for any HR professional

Analytics in HR

Workforce planning tools are an essential part of the HR professional’s toolkit. In this article we’ll go over 5 strategic workforce planning tools, explain their use and give examples and excel templates on how to use them. What are workforce planning tools? Workforce planning tools are instruments that help analyze current capabilities and future needs for the employee population.

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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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How a flexible work environment can energize your business

Sage HRMS

Many of you will be familiar with the stereotypical office environment: beige walls, synthetic lighting, and grey cubicles. This organizational structure doesn’t just look dated, it’s also damaging to businesses that want to plan for success through digital transformation. Modern business both permits and expects a far more unified and mobile-minded approach if growth is to […].

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Mental health at work: it’s time to be strategic

HR Zone

Strategy. Mental health at work: it’s time to be strategic.

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Awesome Ways to Deal with Underperforming Employees

6Q

Dealing with underperforming employees can be quite difficult, and can lead to some awkward conversations. How do you manage an underperforming employee? Below are some awesome approaches you can take to deal with underperforming employees. It’s a moment every manager dreads. You have an employee who is not doing well at their job. You know that losing this job will cause your employee economic hardship and even leave their personal life in shambles.

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Standing In the Middle of a Time of Worry

NoExcusesHR

Long title, I know. It's a line from a song that is pretty cool. But it speaks to something so pervasive in the workplace (and outside the workplace too.) The weight of.everything. So much to accomplish. So many projects. So many needs for the right talent doing the right things at the right time.and so much extra anxiety because we're always in CYA mode.

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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 Toothpaste Can’t Go Back in the Tube: 6 Tips for Workplace Communication

HR Daily Advisor

I recently watched a preschool teacher deliver a message on “Words that Hurt.” The teacher creatively used a tube of toothpaste and a paper plate per student for this hands-on activity. I watched 12 small children eagerly squeeze the entire contents of a tube of toothpaste onto a paper plate, giggling as their plates filled up with minty fresh goo and their little hands became sticky disasters.

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AI is increasing the skills gap. But it can help close it too

HR Zone

Future. Embrace AI to close the skills gap.

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6 Skills Employers Should Look for in Graduates

TalentLyft

There are 6 key skills employers should look for in recent graduates. Assessing these skills will help you make the right choice and hire young talent that will bring a fresh perspective to your workplace and improve your business with innovative ideas! Read More.

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Be careful! These books can change your career: People Analytics reading list

Littal Shemer

Be careful! These books can change your career: People Analytics reading list. Let’s face it. There are too many professional books one can read in a life span. This list of People Analytics books is not exceptional. I won’t be able to complete reading all of it, though I do have these books on my Kindle, ready for browsing. I find here inspiration, blended with practical guidance, validation for my own practices, mixed with new ideas and innovative tools, but most of all, an open door to a prof

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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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Forget What You Thought You Knew About HR and Recruiting Professionals

WorkTech

The first, of what will be annual, HR Open Source Future of Work Report puts some data behind what many of us have seen coming for years. Just as every function in business has evolved with the advent of technology, new thinking, and new generations, so has Human Resources. Sadly much of the thinking about the […]. The post Forget What You Thought You Knew About HR and Recruiting Professionals appeared first on LAROCQUE.

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Shift Scheduling Made Easy With An Automated HR System

SutiHR

Managing shift based business is complex, and creating schedules that suit both business and workforce needs is no exception. Managers need to spend hours for creating a perfect work schedule, considering the no of employees required on the schedule, qualifications and skill level of each employee, and finding which employees function best together as a.

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my boss gave all the women flowers for Mother’s Day, I was demoted because of a horrific act by my employee, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss gave all the women at work flowers for Mother’s Day. I was hoping you could give your opinion on a situation that recently arose at work. I work part-time in a retail setting. My manager, we’ll call him Fergus, can be seen as a little nit-picky or overbearing, but he is generally a nice person and we get along well.

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Does Work-from-Home Option Boosts Employee Productivity?

Empxtrack

Who wouldn’t love being able to work remotely from home? Isn’t this an attractive job perk? With the rise of digital independence, the working landscape has changed dramatically. Employees are demanding better work-life balance, and most employers have adapted and offered occasional work-from-home days to meet employee needs. Work-from-Home – The concept is extremely meaningful for employees and employers.

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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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should I take more maternity leave than I want to “set a good example” for other women in my organization?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am a woman in my mid-thirties, working at the director level at a midsize public company. I have six direct reports, including two managers with direct reports of their own. I am pregnant, and planning my maternity leave. I live in California, which has some unique laws surrounding allowed leave, so that basically, given a “typical” pregnancy, my job is protected while I am on leave from 36 weeks pregnant to 18 weeks after the date I give birth (there is some pregnancy d

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What To Know About the NYC Earned Safe and Sick Time Act

Extensis

In November 2017, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act into law. Under the revised law all employees in New York City who are eligible for paid sick time will be able to use it to take off for “safe” time.

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I won money on a work trip to Vegas – do I have to donate it to my employer?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a medium-sized national nonprofit. Recently, I attended and presented at a conference in Las Vegas on behalf of my organization, during which, on an off evening, I tried my hand at black jack and ended up winning $2,500. I mentioned this excitedly to one of my colleagues back in the office and we had a good laugh about it.