Wed.Jun 08, 2016

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11 reasons to pay attention to EEOC’s new discrimination guidance

HR Morning

The EEOC’s latest proposed guidance covers a topic a lot of employers probably think they already know well: national origin discrimination. But the new guidance throws in a few wrinkles about what’s considered discriminatory — and how to stay in compliance — that employers need to know. . The proposed guidance released by the EEOC expresses official agency policy and explains how the law and regulations apply to specific workplace situations.

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Crafting the Perfect Push Message

15Five

So you have an app for your employees. Great! Now the engagement begins. The best way to continually keep them coming back for more? Push. But where do you start? Research from Localytics and our own experience show that there are five factors for a perfect push: Topic – It’s relevant to me. Quality – The subject line engages/teases me to open it.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The Anatomy of the Engaged Employee

EmployeeConnect

What if Employee Engagement started with HR Technology? HRIS systems are essentially composed of a suited of interlinked modules that allow employees, managers and HR to connect. Thanks to HRIS software, it’s easier to communicate and thus solve the bottlenecks and roadblocks commonly found on the path to complete employee engagement. . HR technology is pushing HR boundaries for the better and systems like EmployeeConnect provide complete systems of engagement.

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How to Create the Ideal Workspace to Help Your Company Succeed

Trinet

While many factors contribute to an employee’s satisfaction in the workplace, more and more companies are recognizing the importance of workplace design when it comes to keeping staff smiling. Visit site for full story.

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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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5 Questions about Brain-Friendly Performance Management

Kazoo

Last week I co-hosted a webinar with the Dr. David Rock of the NeuroLeadership Institute called, “A Brain-Friendly Approach to Performance Management.” I saw David speak five years ago and have been passionate about the topic ever since. It was certainly a career highlight to co-host the webinar and discuss how companies can change their performance management strategies.

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Brain-Friendly Performance Management Approach

Kazoo

Last week I co-hosted a webinar with the Dr. David Rock of the NeuroLeadership Institute called, “A Brain-Friendly Approach to Performance Management.” I saw David speak five years ago and have been passionate about the topic ever since. It was certainly a career highlight to co-host the webinar and discuss how companies can change their performance management strategies.

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Why Millennials Value Company Culture Above All Else

ATD Human Capital

Have you ever had an employee respond to an email in emoji? Or had one ask what a fax machine was? Was that employee younger than 30? Then you know that sometimes the divide between generations can be wide. Last year, Millennials exceeded Gen Xers as the largest demographic in the labor market, and their growing presence is shaping what it means to do work.

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3 benefits of boomerang employees

Achievers

“Boomerang” employees are workers who leave an organization and then come back a few months (or even years) later. Depending on their reasons for leaving and what they’ve been doing in the meantime, these returning employees can bring major benefits to your company. Here are three big benefits to re-hiring employees, and a few cautionary notes: Improved morale.

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Working from Home Can Be Lonely

Laurie Ruettimann

Working from home can be a lonely and isolating experience if you let it. Here are some ways to ensure you don’t go crazy. 1. Have some animals in your house. It’s easy to sit on your butt for 10 hours, but cats and dogs will bother you for food and attention. Animals force you to get up and away from the computer about 100 times an hour. 2.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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Want To Change Careers? Here's The Only Quote You Need to Hear Today.

The HR Capitalist

"If you're interested in changing careers, there's only one time you should work for free in the field you're targeting for a career change - if you want to be hired in the future.". Was taping a podcast for Fistful of Talen t today with Tim Sackett , and he reminded me of something that causes people to have sharp differences of opinion - working for free.

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A Snapshot of SIOP 2016 (Pt. 2) – Business Success

IO At Work

Last month, I-O Psychologists met in California to share the latest cutting-edge research. The 31st annual conference of the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology (SIOP) was a huge success. We’ve partnered with numerous SIOP presenters, and they’ve provided us with the nitty-gritty on some of the very best presentations, which we now offer to you in a multi-part series.

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WorkForce Software Acquires Workplace, Global Leader in Schedule Optimization

Workforce Software

WorkForce Software today announced that it has acquired Workplace, the leading cloud-based employee scheduling solution for retail and hospitality, with offices in the United Kingdom, the U.S., and Australia. Workforce Software is a portfolio company of Insight Venture Partners.

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3 Surprising Reasons an Employee Engagement Strategy Can Fail

Bonusly

Employee engagement is one of the most crucial factors for an organization's success, but it isn't a simple thing to get right. There are many ways an engagement strategy can fail -- some of which you might not expect. Here are 3 surprising ways an employee engagement strategy can fail, and some easy ways to turn it around. 1. Top-Down Design. You may have heard the phrase "Employee engagement starts at the top.

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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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Self-Awareness is a Lie

NoExcusesHR

"No matter how unbiased we think we are, we may have subconscious negative opinions about people who are outside our own group. But the more we are exposed to other groups of people, the less likely we are to feel prejudice against them." - Mind Tools I'm in Leadership, I'm Not Biased I hate to break it to you.but yes, yes you are, and we have our brains to blame for some of those biases.

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Quick Immediate Recognition

Terryberry

It’s WOW Wednesday! HR leaders, execs, and managers: How do you WOW the people who go above and beyond for you in your business? Or, how have you been WOWed? Today’s WOW Wednesday comes from Synovia. She says: “We recently added spot bonuses and it is working so far. Quick immediate recognition is very rewarding and retention tool for Gen Y’s and employees overall.” Share your own “WOW Wednesday” tip or story.

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Employee Flexibility: Why Aren’t They Happy?

WorqIQ

Employees are hungry for flexibility. When they get it, however, it’s not always the dream benefit they thought it would be. Read More» The post Employee Flexibility: Why Aren’t They Happy? appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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Dealing With Employee Expenses: Identifying, Setting Limits

Paychex

Proper identification and classification of employee expenses is essential to ensure that expense reimbursements are not considered taxable income. To manage a company budget and ultimately reported net income, small businesses may also consider capping some employee expenses.

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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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How Evolved Are Your Customer Relationships?

TalentCulture

“Customer experience is the perception that customers have of all their interactions with an organization. Customer engagement is something different, it ’ s a behavior and attitude, an outcome of customer experience.” ~ Bruce Temkin. I came across an article in my archives about customer relations that got me considering my own business relationships.

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Activate and amplify: Making social learning work

HR Zone

Development. Making social learning work.

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4 practical ways to increase transparency and employee engagement

Ceridian

Your employees are eyeing advancement, but many of them still consider it an awkward conversation. To change this, human capital management professionals have to develop a culture of transparency and engagement. . When people feel they are stuck in one place, without the ability to broach topics such as wage and promotion with management, they’re more likely to begin feeling dissatisfied.

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10 Ways to Improve Communication (and Safety) in the Workplace

Total Employee Recognition

The Role of Communication in Achieving a Total Safety Culture. In the past, we’ve discussed the importance of active employee engagement as it relates to safety in the workplace. And within those discussions, we’ve placed an ongoing emphasis on maintaining proper channels of communication. So, today we’re going to dive a little deeper into this facet of engagement and highlight 10 ways you can improve your ability to create a safer working environment by receiving and disseminating the right inf

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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7 Low-Cost Marketing Tips for Small Businesses

Take It Personel-ly

You’ve started your own business and told your friends, family and your cat that you’re going to make it big. You might have an actual office, with actual staff to boss around, or you might be doing all your hard work out of your spare room from a desk with a broken drawer and a […].

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Learning is Work & Work is Learning: Strategies for Workers’ Evaluations

Workology

Since I work in an educational institution, yearly performance reviews occur around May, the end of the academic year if you are on a semester system. For many of us, this means going backward through emails, calendars, and files to recall the multitude of projects and tasks that we worked on throughout the year. Depending on your organization system, this can be fairly quick or painfully tedious.

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Turning LinkedIn into a Social and Political Statement

Evil HR Lady

I spend a good deal of time on LinkedIn, and find it a valuable site, but there are some things that bother me, like the time they wanted people to bring their mommies and daddies to the office. (Just say no!) The other thing that bothers is me is that they are constantly asking me to include what causes I care about. Knowing what I care about does not indicate my ability to do any particular job, and it can bring up controversy that most people would rather not inject into the networking proces

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What Happens When Design Thinking Meets Data? Better HR

Namely

At Namely, we pair technology with a human touch to create what we call HR for Humans. We believe HR strategies should be designed with the employee experience in mind so you can support engaged, happy workers—the key to any good business. A study by economists at the University of Warwick found that employee happiness led to a 12% spike in productivity and unhappy workers were 10% less productive.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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Should Corporate America Scrap the Annual Pay Raise?

i4cp

This week, it was announced that General Electric is considering eliminating the annual pay raise in lieu of other forms of compensation to better compete for and retain top talent. The company is also exploring separating pay from performance reviews. i4cp is well known for its research into performance management next practices, especially as it relates to organizations abandoning or significantly altering traditional performance reviews.

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Ep 83 – Career Advice for All Generations From Penelope Trunk #fivegenwork

Workology

As part of our ongoing podcast series taking a look at the five generation workplace, we are continuing our conversation talking about the Traditionalist Generation. Check out our podcast interviews as we break down the five generations at work with Generation Zen , Generation Y , and Traditionalists. Millennials are frequently generalized as entitled, lazy and self-centered.

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my boss sent around photos of my coworker in body paint, getting paid for commute time, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss sent around photos of my coworker in body paint. My boss and a coworker became Facebook friends. My manager was snooping around on her Facebook profile and saw some pictures of her without clothes on but with her privates covered in body paint, and then sent them to me and several other coworkers via text message, from his work cell phone.