Wed.Apr 11, 2018

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5 Reasons to Consider Implementing Flextime

ClearCompany HRM

Thanks to technology, it’s now easier than ever to connect with your friends, family and coworkers with nothing more than a mobile device and an internet connection. With less need for the amenities of a traditional office, comes less need for the traditional 9-5 work schedule. One survey of marketing and advertising executives found that 76% of companies offered some form of flexible work arrangement.

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4 Millennial Myths that Should Not Impact Your Talent Strategy

Lighthouse

While there is a growing number of publications on generational differences, much is incorrect or misleading. Typically information falls into one of two categories: First, widely generalized statements that apply to anyone. Often these are a marketing exercise, like “Top 8 Tips for Managing Millennials in the Workplace.” Suggestions include tips like “explain the company vision” or “provide professional development,” neither of which are surprising or unique

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More Money, More Problems (When You Terminate an Employee)

HR Daily Advisor

One of the most common questions we receive is what an employer can do when an employee is terminated and owes the company money. In response, our clients hear one of the most common phrases in this area of the law—no good deed goes unpunished. Below are some guiding principles regarding employer benefits and employee termination. What Are We Talking About?

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Using HR and IT Collaboration to Improve Talent Management

Cornerstone On Demand

This piece originally appeared on the ATD blog. Human Resources and IT departments haven't historically been closely linked or aligned within an organization. But as technology continues its rapid evolution, this partnership will become more important than ever. Already, 33 percent of HR teams are using some form of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and 41 percent are building mobile apps to deliver HR solutions, according to Deloitte's 2017 Global Human Capital Trends report—IT teams

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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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Staffing Agency vs. Marketplace: What is the Difference?

MBO Partners

There are an expanding number of ways to reach independent professional talent. Knowing the key differences between staffing agencies and online marketplaces can help you determine how best to reach independent talent for your unique project needs.

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10 Takeaways from WorkHuman 2018

WorkHuman

By Lauren Brown. “The growth of this movement is palpable,” said Alice Carroll from OhioHealth about attending her second WorkHuman. She’s right. Since the first conference four years ago, attendance has grown by 500%. This is the beginning of a culture shift in HR that attendees are making happen – and the movement is moving fast. The last three days have been a torrent of emotions.

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How Has HR Changed In The Last 10 Years? My Interview with Jack Altman from Lattice.

Josh Bersin

Read more» Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Five Common Mistakes Restaurants Make with ACA Compliance

ACA Times

3 minute read: Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 , the reporting requirements set forth by the IRS have proven to be complicated and time consuming. Minimizing cost and increasing employee retention in the restaurant space is difficult already. Add the administrative burden of the ACA to a restaurant owner’s to do list and you’re looking at another full-time job.

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I got in trouble because my coworker saw maxi pads in my car, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I got written up because my coworker saw maxi pads in my car. One of my coworkers complained because she saw a package of maxi pads in the backseat of my car when she parked near me in our parking lot. I had stopped at the store on the way into work, and they were in a bag along with shampoo and toothpaste.

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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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Why Global Mobility Matters

Hppy

We live in a globalised world. Businesses that limit themselves to small regions and markets without paying attention to the bigger picture will stand out as being stuck in the past. Also read: Try These 9 Tools For Engaging and Managing Remote Employees. Operating across multiple markets is now the standard but being able to work well in one area won’t necessarily translate into success in another.

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AMBITION WEEK: Recognizing Ambition In Your Recruiting Process.

The HR Capitalist

Capitalist Note: I'm tagging this week "Ambition Week", celebrating the people in your organization that want to dominate the world. You know these people - they are the ones that often do great things, and occasionally put tire tracks across a teammates back in the process. Are you better off with or without these people? Let's dig in and decide together.

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The importance of employee empowerment in the workplace

Limeade

We’ve talked a lot about the importance of employee engagement , but employee empowerment is a key predictor of engagement (and other outcomes) — it’s also different from engagement. More companies now understand that when you give employees more responsibility and power, it can actually benefit both the people and the business. In fact, according to the Harvard Business Review , research has shown that, “when employees feel empowered at work, it’s associated with stronger job performance, job s

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STEM’s long-standing image problem: how can we eliminate it?

HR Zone

Culture. STEM’s image problem: how can we eliminate it?

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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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Women Working with Women: How to Support One Another

Workology

In recognition of International Women’s Day earlier last month, I wanted to talk about how to deal with women at work who seem to want to tear each other down instead of building each other up. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Don't waste your money on team building activities for work

Jostle

If you listened to Google’s search results on how to improve teamwork, you’d be packing up your dysfunctional team and sending them to a retreat full of trust falls and white-water rafting.

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am I a mansplainer?

Ask a Manager

This week on the Ask a Manager podcast, we talk about mansplaining! “Mansplaining” = the weirdly frequent phenomenon where a man gives a woman an unrequested explanation of something that she has more expertise on than he does. It was coined in an essay by a woman who described how a man at a party kept condescendingly explaining her own book – that she had written – to her.

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Ranking HR Conferences By Total Tweets and Influencer Engagement

Advos

One of many unique features of HRmarketer software is conference hashtag streaming. Globally, HRmarketer streams thousands of HR conference hashtags, providing a wealth of business intelligence, including which events your competitors attend, which events analysts and influencers engage with, vendor's share of voice, etc. For this post we analyzed all the HR conferences from 2017 [ ] The post Ranking HR Conferences By Total Tweets and Influencer Engagement appeared first on HRmarketer.

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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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30 Field-Tested Healthy Snacks for Kids

SnackNation

30 Field-Tested Healthy Snacks for Kids. Making healthy food is pretty easy once you have the basics down. Making healthy food that excites and delights the kiddos is an art. Developing palettes are often sensitive to the bitter flavors in a lot of healthy vegetables, and often, what tastes delicious to an adult tastes absolutely disgusting to a child.

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can I ask for a higher salary if I agreed to a lower range at the start of the interview process?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I was wondering if it is okay to negotiate salary on a role that a salary range was provided during the course of the interview. For example, if during the initial phone interview I was provided a range of $60K to $70K, is it acceptable to try to negotiate more once an offer is made? Obviously the recruiter asked if that range was okay, and I stated that it was a good place to start and that I wanted to hear more.

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8 Things You Need to Know About Starting a Business

Take It Personel-ly

Starting your own business can be one of the most rewarding experiences of a lifetime. However, it is very demanding since you will spend countless hours consulting with accountants, lawyers, and other entrepreneurs. You can save yourself time by getting these eight things straight before starting a business. 1. Develop a business plan Preparing a […].

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5 Steps to create a more successful team

Typelane

Creating a high performing team takes a dedication and hard work. Building a high performing team is more of a continuous process than a start and stop movement. A manager plays an important and crucial part in a team’s performance. Recent research shows that one of the top reasons that people leave their workplace, is to get away from their managers.

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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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Perfectionism in the Workplace – A Rising Challenge

HRWest

By Bart Magee, Ph.D. Perfectionism is on the rise in society and in the workplace, meaning that business leaders need to be more prepared to manage employees with perfectionist attributes. An excess of perfectionism in the workplace leads to a number of negative results including poisonous stress and anxiety, difficulty building teams, avoidance of feedback, […].

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HR & Admin Officer job description

Workable

Use this HR & Admin Officer job description template to attract and hire junior candidates for your Human Resources department. HR & Admin Officer responsibilities include: Maintaining physical and digital personnel records like employment contracts and PTO requests. Updating internal databases with new hire information. Creating and distributing guidelines and FAQ documents about company policies.

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What Do You Need for a Criminal Record Check?

Sterling Check

When I started at Sterling Talent Solutions , I had to get a background screen to be hired for the job. It was the first time I had to get a background check and I had a lot of questions. I wasn’t sure of the process, what information I had to provide, what forms I needed to fill out, how long it would take and if I took too long to provide info would it delay me getting hired for the job.

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SilkRoad Connections 2018 Agenda Spotlight: Training Sessions

Silkroad

We’re excited to highlight some of the amazing sessions from our training team at this year’s SilkRoad Connections user conference. Here are some of the hands-on sessions that will be presented. Changing How You Hire in 2018 and Beyond – Tuesday, May 1st – 8:45A . In this hands-on workshop, you will improve the candidate experience with new tools and hidden gems that allow you to understand candidates better and impact how you hire.

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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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Court: This common pay practice equals discrimination

HR Morning

One of the most common pay-determining techniques could now put your company in legal danger. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals just unanimously ruled that pay differences based on prior salaries are inherently discriminatory under the Equal Pay Act because those past salaries stemmed from gender bias. The ruling was handed down in Rizo v. Yovino, a lawsuit in which a teacher claimed she was paid thousands of dollars than a male colleague with less experience, education and seniority.

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Your Workforce Tools Are More Strategic Than You Might Think

TLNT: The Business of HR

This is not a typical article about attracting talented job candidates or retention — while a rich topic, it has become a little tired. There are volumes of research on employee retention – some focus on affirmative strategies; others on mistakes and pitfalls of the world’s most revered companies. And what is clear is that turnover has a cost.

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Fearless Decisions: How Cummins Moved to the Cloud

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

During Oracle’s HCM World 2018, we strived to bring fearless leadership to the keynote stage. Fabio Fukuda , our customer keynote, took stage and inspired the room of 2,000+ attendees with his message of fearlessness. From enrolling in commercial pilot school, to moving to Japan to work on a factory shop floor, to competing and practicing the martial art of kendo, Fabio has never let fear get in the way of his goals.

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