Fri.Apr 06, 2018

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Cafe Classic: Compensation Philosophy Disconnected from your Staffing Strategy?

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: As the labor market heats up, unevenly as always, it's time to ensure that these two core talent strategies - compensation and staffing - are linked by a common understanding of what it takes to get the right people in place at your organization. And what if they aren't? That is the question explored in today's Classic. During an installment of our Lunch at the Compensation Cafe series a few years back, a member of our audience, Zak, posed a question about what to do when a sta

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Make Your Data Easy to Consume – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

Years ago, I worked for a company that decided HR was going to produce a “metrics scorecard” each month. Three full pages of data about HR activities. Everything from cost per hire and time to fill to grievance trends and training effectiveness. I’ve always joked that HR closed the month similar to the accounting department. It took us days to prepare every report and distribute it.

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How The Villages of Indiana Was Able to Find, Hire and Engage Faster

ClearCompany HRM

“We now have a system that helps all of our hiring managers across the state, getting paperwork off their desks. That’s the biggest win. Without a doubt, this has shortened the hiring process.”. As Indiana’s largest not-for-profit child and family services agency, The Villages of Indiana serves over 3,000 children and their families every day through services ranging from foster care, and adoption placement, to assisting new parents through the first few months with their newborns.

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. With 1 New Hire, Apple Just Showcased the Power of This Simple Leadership Strategy -- by Sean Wise. 2.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

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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It’s Time For HR to Be Bold with Analytics

Visier

Experian — a global leader in consumer and business credit reporting and marketing services, and a Visier customer — is one organization that has successfully embraced workforce analytics. In this post that originally appeared on the CIPD blog , Olly Britnell — Experian’s head of global workforce analytics — shares 6 practical approaches for how HR can make a real impact on business outcomes with analytics, get engagement from senior executives and people leaders,

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Podcast: Autonomy – Empowering the Individual to do their Best Work - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

What impact does autonomy have on engagement? How do we balance autonomy with accountability? What role does trust play in creating autonomy? Christian Nielson, Principal Consultant at DecisionWise, address these questions and more in an insightful conversation around autonomy, one of the 5 keys of Engagement MAGIC. Autonomy is the power to shape your work and environment in ways that allow you to perform at your best.

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How To Empower The Workforce And Retain Top Talent

SutiHR

For managers in any business, one of the critical challenges is figuring out how to make employees stick around and keep performing at their peak. Compensation and rewards may not guarantee retention and performance; they’ll attract a steady stream of candidates, but they don’t always ensure motivation or productivity. To stay loyal and motivated, employees.

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Three Practices Every HR Team Needs to Adopt

TLNT: The Business of HR

An HR team can make all the difference in the internal success and versatility of a business. From hiring the most qualified talent to maintaining a strong and healthy company culture, HR reps play an integral part in thriving organizations.

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Insights from IMPACT 2018: Designing a Rewards Program for Best Fit

Bersin with Deloitte

Organizational rewards functions often alienate employees and undermine an employer’s brand. But there’s a flipside: High-performing organizations with rewards strategies that extend beyond compensation, benefits, and well-being. How can organizations optimize rewards programs to fit their unique culture? Four out of every five rewards functions we surveyed need to focus on better executing the basics: […].

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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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What is Résumé Fraud?

HR Daily Advisor

Résumé fraud occurs anytime someone intentionally provides false information on his or her résumé, presumably with the hopes it will make him or her more likely to be considered for a job. This often also encompasses application fraud—which is the same idea, but it occurs anywhere in the application process. There are even business services out there that will knowingly assist candidates with changing their résumé in this way, such as offering advice on how to hide employment gaps or how to add

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How The Wrong Employees Can Negatively Affect Your Business

Take It Personel-ly

Businesses require powerful, talented and hardworking employees to succeed. They are one of the reasons that a business grows and earns great profits. However, there are many businesses that give little thought to this and suffer huge losses along the way when some employees negatively affect the business. According to a survey taken by Career […].

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The Evolution Of Performance Management System

Engagedly

Organizations these days have become more employee-focused and less process-driven. Performance management has changed in many ways over few decades. Many organizations have ditched their annual performance reviews. This has been the era where continuous feedback became popular […].

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Bonfyre Breakdown: Why Your Internal Communication Strategy Must Add Meaning to Work

Bonfyre

Organizations may often miss the mark when it comes to internal communication during change, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Communication, when delivered effectively, can be a stabilizing force for employees, keeping operations steady even in the most turbulent of times. This month on the Bonfyre Breakdown, we’re unpacking a recent IC Kollectif article that discusses the one thing every internal communication strategy needs to do to be effective through change.

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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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Employee Write Up Templates for Small Business

Workology

One of the hardest set of duties for any human resources professional or business leader is disciplining and letting go of employees. There are plenty of good reasons to write up and fire employees – poor performance, attendance issues, ethical breaches, or criminal activities – but it’s never an easy task, emotionally or professionally.

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Supreme Court declines ADA leave case: Why that’s not a bad thing

HR Morning

So the Supreme Court decided not to tackle whether extended leave is a reasonable ADA accommodation. But that could be more good news than bad for employers. The Supreme Court has declined to review an appeals court ruling in Severson v. Heartland Woodcraft, Inc. In that case, the 7th Circuit Court ruled that “a multimonth leave of absence is beyond the scope of a reasonable accommodation.” By declining to take up that case , the Court leaves the Severson ruling in effect.

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How Video Communications can Reduce Frustration and Angst in an Office Environment

Employee Communications Council

The term “office environment” can often be an alternative way of saying frustration and angst, and that is exactly what you don't want it to be. In fact, there is probably a mathematical formula somewhere that shows success going down as these go up. And vice versa. One of the chief causes of frustration and angst is bad communications. They arise when expectations aren't met.

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What Does the New OSHA® “Look Back” Ruling Mean for Repeat Violations?

C. A. Short Company

Fines are on the rise, an agency is on a mission, and a landmark court decision is shaking everything up. What does all this mean for you? If OSHA® determines your business is a “repeat violator,” it could cost you an enormous amount in fines – regardless of when the violations occurred.

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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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7 out of 10 workers can relate to this viral story about a stolen lunch

HR Morning

A recent tweet about a worker’s lunch going missing and security footage being viewed to find the culprit went viral after employees everywhere related to the common office crime. . Last week, Zak Toscani shared this saga on Twitter: A co-worker’s lunch was stolen, and HR and the victim viewed the security camera tape to find a colleague removing the man’s lunch from the fridge and tossing it into the trash.

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open thread – April 6-7, 2018

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please don’t repost it here, as it may be in the to-be-answered queue.

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4 things to know today about marijuana at work

TemboStatus

Marijuana in the workplace is this month’s #TorontoHR discussion. While Canadians wait for legalization this year, one thing is for sure: cannabis is coming. Is your workplace prepared?

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Yale School of Medicine: “Financial Health”, a Prescription for Mental Health Care

Payactiv

Chronic financial stress can manifest in physical as well as severe mental issues. Now, employers are in a position to help their employees overcome financial stress and improve their overall well-being. The post Yale School of Medicine: “Financial Health”, a Prescription for Mental Health Care appeared first on PayActiv.

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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 new Ask a Manager book…

Ask a Manager

Eeeeek! I have it in my hand! If you want it in your hand, pre-order it now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Powell’s, or anywhere books are sold. Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work is nearly all new content, and I’m so excited about it! It’ll be published by Random House/Ballantine on May 1, and if you place your pre-order here , you’ll get it as soon as it publishes.

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Simplifying Management

HR Studio Group

Some of my best ideas come from my clients. I’ve been working with one organization for about a year and recently completed their employee handbook. The Director of Operations asked me if I had a managers’ guide she could give to current and new managers—something of a primer on how to manage and handle employee performance challenges. After giving her request some consideration, I decided I could provide this information in a blog format.

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AI Is Beginning to Take On the Quality of Hire Challenge

TLNT: The Business of HR

One thing people often observe about technology is that the initial hype seems overblown, then one day the wave breaks upon us and things are moving faster than expected. Last year, when I first mentioned Ideal , a Toronto-based company offering AI to support recruiting, their clients were mostly interested in easing the burden of sorting through resumes.

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The Cheapest Way to use Digital Displays for Company Communications

BackStitch

This Post Originally Appeared in The Content Corner; my private newsletter for Internal Communications and HR Leaders. Get on the waitlist here: Apply Now.

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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 We Need Less Creative Job Postings

Evil HR Lady

Paul Bogaards is an EVP, Director, Public Relations, Knopf Doubleday, a publishing company. He’s looking to hire a publicist , and so he wrote what looks like an extremely creative job posting and published on Tumblr (not, as he says, on the official Knopf job’s page). It’s brilliant. It begins like this: The Executive Vice President, Director of Publicity and Media Relations for the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (@paulbogaards ) is seeking a Publicist to dazzle the ind

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Simplifying Management

HR Studio Group

Some of my best ideas come from my clients. I’ve been working with one organization for about a year and recently completed their employee handbook. The Director of Operations asked me if I had a managers’ guide she could give to current and new managers—something of a primer on how to manage and handle employee performance challenges. After giving her request some consideration, I decided I could provide this information in a blog format.

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Can I Have Your Number? Dealing with Changed Social Security Numbers

HR Daily Advisor

Q. One of our employees who has worked for us a little over 2 years just presented us with a new Social Security number (SSN) and said the old one we have been using is no longer her number. I have never heard of this before. Do we terminate the old record/file and rehire her with the new information, or do we just change the SSN and have her fill out a Form I-9?