Fri.Oct 13, 2017

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Companies Should Strive for Perfect Paychecks – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

One of my favorite videos is an old clip from the television show “Scrubs” where Dr. Cox gives a lesson on the endless pursuit of perfection. If you haven’t seen it, you can check it out on YouTube. We often talk about the challenges of being a perfectionist. That trying to be perfect can lead to stress and burnout. But aren’t there times when we should want the endless pursuit of perfection?

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10 Affordable Ways To Improve Team Morale at Your Company

Justworks

What is morale? And why is it important to a team's success and a company's business goals? Morale is the capacity of a group of people to pull together persistently and consistently in pursuit of a common purpose,” says sociologist Alexander Leighton. Clearly, this is something everyone wants for their company. Good morale means employees are productive, collaborate better, miss fewer workdays, and feel more satisfied by their work.

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4 HR Strategies for Optimizing a Multigenerational Workforce in the Hospitality Industry

Trinet

It is a common misconception that the hospitality industry is made up of mostly young workers. It is not uncommon for restaurants, hotels, resorts and other hospitality businesses to have four or more generations of employees working alongside one another. Here are four specific strategies hospitality employers should implement to get the most from the full generational range of employees.

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How Can HR Professionals Prevent And Spot Common Overtime Violations?

Hppy

No organization wants to face the law for overtime violations. Unfortunately, most businesses find themselves in these sticky situations because they do not understand the state labor laws. An in-house HR department or hired HR consultant can help the company overcome such problems because they are well-versed professionals in labor laws. Also read: Managing HR Compliance in the Age of Technology.

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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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Reflektive

11:16 AM]. jameskrill Still happening for me. saving drafts (the banana page). That JS error is still there, unfortunately, but I see it does say www2.pagely.reflektive.com now instead of the s23789 – so it’s seeing your change, but still not working. [11:16 AM]. Strange that it’s letting you save drafts…. Pallavi here, trying now… The post test test test appeared first on Reflektive.

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Employee engagement and GDPR: what's the link?

HR Zone

Employees. Employee engagement and GDPR: what's the link?

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The Future of HR Isn’t Human–Exploring the Benefits of Chatbots

TalentCulture

With the use of chatbots in the Human Resources arena expected to grow in 2018, it may be just the tool to help your company improve talent acquisition, create a more connected on-boarding experience and boost employee engagement. What’s a chatbot you ask? Well, “bot” is short for robot—and is a special type of robot that use artificial intelligence to chat with people.

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Bersin: Massive Disruption for HR

HRExecutive

Companies are living in a paradox right now: Brilliant new technology is flooding the workplace and changing business models and yet, employee productivity and engagement levels are going down in the U.S. and around the world, said Josh Bersin during his closing keynote at this year’s HR Tech Conference. “Within the last two years, 90 percent of companies have said their business models are under disruption by technology and the problem isn’t the technology — it’s t

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Why do UK workers feel undervalued and what can HR do?

HR Zone

Employees. Why do UK workers feel undervalued?

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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 Offbeat Leadership Qualities Leaders Should Possess

Engagedly

What qualities should a leader possess? If you were to ask this question, some of the most common answers would be charismatic, confident, intelligent, well-spoken, honest etc. There’s nothing wrong with those qualities. They are some of the […].

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Effective learning can’t be a one-size-fits-all approach

HR Zone

Development. Effective learning: one-size-fits-all won't work.

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Quantifying Company Culture

Collage

Elisha Gray is the Director of People and Culture at Street Contxt, a global communication platform for investment professionals. Combining business savvy, street smarts, and a military upbringing, Elisha brings a truly analytical mindset to modern HR. We spoke with her to learn how she thinks product development can inform people and culture and why HR metrics truly matter. __.

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Don’t Confuse KPIs and Analytics

TLNT: The Business of HR

Some companies tell me about their plans for people analytics and soon it becomes apparent that their mandate is something difference: they’ve been asked to report KPIs.

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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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Time Intelligence™ for Professional Services

Replicon

Want to chat more about Time Intelligence™ during the Technology Services World Conference? Sign up to book a meeting with Replicon during TSW. Everyone knows that time is money. But unlike money, most businesses don’t know enough about their time. What did we do to turn time into money today? How much did time cost […]. The post Time Intelligence™ for Professional Services appeared first on Replicon.

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3 Positive Ways to Effectively Address Employee Mistakes

HR Daily Advisor

Even in the best-run organizations, things go wrong and employees mishandle their assigned tasks. Sometimes those mistakes are significant and costly, infuriating managers who come down hard and with perhaps a bit of righteous fury on the hapless offender. But as most HR professionals know, such managerial venting just makes matters worse in the long run.

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Hosting an Office Halloween Party: Dos and Don’ts

Evil HR Lady

It’s that time of year again, All Hallow’s Eve is right around the corner. If you’re thinking about throwing an office Halloween party, you may be wondering: what is (and what is not) appropriate? Consider the following points: Culture and Industry Matter. If your business is a funeral home, dressing up as a creepy vampire is a terrible idea. However, if your business is an after-school hangout for teens, that might be perfect.

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Why diversity initiatives fail

HR Zone

Culture. Why diversity initiatives fail.

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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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The Workplace: What to do when you think your co-workers are being racist

Workplace Coach

Question: When Alaska’s recession forced me to look for employment in a new state, I applied for every job I could find that made sense. My criminal justice BA got me hired as a police trainee. I’m thrilled, because I love law enforcement. Unfortunately, the community that hired me and the entire police force are super conservative. I’m a liberal and have always been involved in social justice.

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weekend free-for-all – October 14-15, 2017

Ask a Manager

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly no work and no school.). Book recommendation of the week: 4 3 2 1 , by Paul Auster. This is four stories in one — all starting with the birth of the same person, but they then diverge into separate narrations of the paths his life might take.

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HR Technology is Outpacing Leadership Skill #HRTechConf

The Tim Sackett Project

It’s the big HR Technology takeaways 2017! So, as you’re reading this I’m flying back home from ‘the’ HR Technology Conference. Another great show put on by Steve Boese and the LRP team! There are so many things I take away from this year’s show and I wanted to share some of the bigger ones: – HR and TA Technology sophistication are surpassing leadership ability in those functions.

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HR Checklist — Preparing for the New Year

Mercer

Our HR Checklist helps you prepare for the New Year now while things may be a bit more relaxed. Here are our thoughts to help get you started. The post HR Checklist — Preparing for the New Year appeared first on Mercer PeoplePro Blog.

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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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Avoiding Attrition: How Leading SMBs Retain Talent as They Grow

Great Place to Work

Employees are drawn to small businesses for their friendly colleagues, entrepreneurial leaders and the chance to bring new ideas into the world. Once a business starts to grow, though, attrition can become an unexpected side effect of success. “The way you make decisions and communicate with 100 people won’t necessarily work with 1,000," said Marcus Erb, vice president at Great Place to Work.

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Five for Friday: Rudeness at work

Jostle

Rudeness is toxic in a workplace. It leads to unhappy employees and lower quality, decreased productivity. And what's worse is that it's contagious. Rudeness is actually rising in the workplace.

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How One of the Big 4 Is Helping Workers Cope With the Bots

TLNT: The Business of HR

The workplace is transforming, as companies take advantage of developing technologies and tools. The digital transformation of the global business ecosystem will ultimately impact employees at every level and every company. So how can businesses work with employees to help them navigate these shifts?

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open thread – October 13-14, 2017

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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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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How Digital Workplace Solutions Solve Common Onboarding Challenges

HR Daily Advisor

Employers need to attract and retain high quality talent to achieve operational stability and business growth. But holding onto the cream of the crop isn’t easy — and it’s a challenge that is made more difficult in organizations that lack robust onboarding processes. Across a range of industries, employers are embracing digital transformation in order to solve common onboarding challenges and create connected workplaces that produce engaged and satisfied employees from day one.

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Friendly court reminder: Policies can’t stop workers from talking about pay

HR Morning

By now, most savvy companies know they can’t bar employees from discussing such things as salaries and working conditions. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t some companies out there that try to do it anyway. . Worker spoke up, was disciplined. Take the recent case of Banner Health System, which had adopted a Confidentiality Agreement, identifying forbidden topics like “[p]rivate employee information (such as salaries, disciplinary action, etc.) that is not shared by the employee.”.

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The Healthcare Employee Engagement Enigma: 4 Flawed Assumptions that Limit Improvement

DDI

When it comes to tackling healthcare employee engagement, barriers often stand in the way.