Wed.Aug 23, 2017

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Single Racial Slur Can Establish Harassment Claim in 3rd Circuit

HR Daily Advisor

Recently, the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals—which covers Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania—ruled that to establish a claim of workplace harassment under the civil rights statute known as Section 1981, the discrimination need only be “severe or pervasive,” which can be satisfied by a single racial slur when it’s so extreme that it “amount[s] to a change in the terms and conditions of employment.” kentoh / iStock / Getty Images Plus.

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3 Ways to Make Your Campus Recruiting Efforts Count

Cornerstone On Demand

This piece is the first in our "Campus Recruiting 101" series covering how HR professionals can make the most of their campus recruiting efforts this year. With the school year right around the corner, it's time to get serious about your campus recruiting strategy. Colleges are full of talented and ambitious students—a 2016 AfterCollege Career Insights Survey found 78 percent of college seniors had their job lined up before graduating.

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Your Silver Linings (Pocket) Playbook

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience Library. Sometimes our minds drift to the things that we perceive as disappointing in our lives—a slip of the tongue, a day that didn’t go as smoothly as we’d hoped. Although it can be useful to remember these moments in order to learn from them, if we focus on them too much they have a way of bringing us down.Finding the bright side of a less than ideal situation is an important part of developing an optimistic outlook.

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Create an Inclusive Work Environment Across Generations

Everwise

The rise of Millennials in the workplace — they now make up over a third of the workforce — has led to more generations working together than ever before. Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, Generation Z: they all bring unique perspectives and experiences to today’s professional environment. This diversity of generations can also create a lack of understanding or a tendency towards bias, however unintentional.

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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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Your Silver Linings (Pocket) Playbook

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience Library. Sometimes our minds drift to the things that we perceive as disappointing in our lives—a slip of the tongue, a day that didn’t go as smoothly as we’d hoped. Although it can be useful to remember these moments in order to learn from them, if we focus on them too much they have a way of bringing us down.Finding the bright side of a less than ideal situation is an important part of developing an optimistic outlook.

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Your Silver Linings (Pocket) Playbook

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience Library. Sometimes our minds drift to the things that we perceive as disappointing in our lives—a slip of the tongue, a day that didn’t go as smoothly as we’d hoped. Although it can be useful to remember these moments in order to learn from them, if we focus on them too much they have a way of bringing us down.Finding the bright side of a less than ideal situation is an important part of developing an optimistic outlook.

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Women in Business: Driving Innovation in Senior Leadership

TalentCulture

I had the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion at the recent PegaWorld event , on the topic of how women in business are driving innovation in senior leadership. PegaWorld, an annual event put on by software company Pega, is designed to bring together business and technical visionaries from the world’s leading companies. My panelists certainly represented the best and brightest in the world of business and technology and we’ll take a look here at the panelists themselves, along with the t

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Your Silver Linings (Pocket) Playbook

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience Library. Sometimes our minds drift to the things that we perceive as disappointing in our lives—a slip of the tongue, a day that didn’t go as smoothly as we’d hoped. Although it can be useful to remember these moments in order to learn from them, if we focus on them too much they have a way of bringing us down.Finding the bright side of a less than ideal situation is an important part of developing an optimistic outlook.

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You don’t Have to be Charismatic to be a Remarkable Leader 

TalentCulture

Most people think of leaders as being charismatic. These are individuals who are constantly in front of the troops. Shouting encouragement and cheering them on. The “out front” leader plays an important role in an organization, but there is another type of leader who lurks behind the scenes that deserves special mention because they are actually more effective than the “testosterone leader.” This is the behind-the-scenes leader who sees their raison d’être to create

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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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A Rundown of All the Salary Data Sources Your Employees Are Looking At

Compensation Today

This is an excerpt from our forthcoming whitepaper entitled “The Compensation Data Landscape: A Review of Salary Data Sources, Plus How to Choose.” Enjoy! Employees have access to lots of compensation data online. Many a manager has been on the receiving end of a printed online report followed by, “I found this salary report online and it says I should earn more money.”.

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The Solar Eclipse Killed Work Productivity in America.

The HR Capitalist

OK - that title's click bait, but wait, don't leave. First up, Reuters DID report that American employers saw at least $694 million in missing output from the roughly 20 minutes that outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas estimated workers took out of their workday on Monday, Aug. 21 to stretch their legs, head outside the office and gaze at the nearly two-and-a-half minute eclipse.

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6 Tips for Strategic Employer Branding: A strategic business function across the employment lifecycle from pre-hire to retire

Papirfly

Is your company considered a great place to work? Are you able to attract the best talent out there? With the continued fierce competition for top candidates, your employer brand must be on its best form. In fact, a strong talent brand can cut cost per hire by up to 50% while lowering turnover rates by 28%. Make your employer branding efforts a strategic priority today with our six tips for employer branding as a strategic business function across the whole employment lifecycle from pre-hire to

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Go Your Own Way By Setting Up As a Contractor

Corn on the Job

If you work in a hands-on job, you’ve likely learned a lot from various people. You might not have gone to college, but perhaps you went to a vocational school or completed an apprenticeship, and you learned as you earned. After a while, though, you can start to think that you no longer want other people telling you what to do. You want to set up as a tradesperson and run your own business.

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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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Vulnerability - A New Leadership Competency

NoExcusesHR

I've been working for a long time. Well, actually, for a really long time, and most of that has been in leadership. Some of the "virtues" of leadership I learned early on were to never show weakness or be indecisive, because. weakness = career over indecisive = zero respect I'm guessing that mindset is not unique to the healthcare industry. However, I would suggest there is a different competency out there that is a far cry from the commonplace failings of weakness and the inability to make a de

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5 Common Employee Emotions to Navigate During Mergers and Acquisitions

Quantum Workplace

Years ago, I was hired to help a client create and execute an engagement and internal brand strategy after a multi-company acquisition. I was optimistic – getting a leadership team to understand the impact of mergers and acquisition on employees and commit to prioritizing the employee experience during change is usually half the battle! But my optimism quickly faded when I met the entire executive team onsite to kick-off their initiative.

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How can we actively sustain our personal performance at work?

HR Zone

People. How can we sustain our personal performance?

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Federal judge to EEOC: Your wellness-program incentive rules are kind’ve a big dumpster fire

The Employer Handbook

Well, maybe not in those words exactly. But, the judge did have some scathing words for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s take on wellness-program incentives. Remind me. What are these incentive rules? Back in 2016, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission passed new regulations impacting wellness programs. Among other things, them jawns provide that, if a wellness program is open only to employees enrolled in a particular plan, then the maximum allowable incentive

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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 Recruitment Software Helps Overcome Hiring Challenges

SutiHR

HR departments are facing new challenges in one of their most key tasks – employee recruitment. Finding the right fit is the biggest challenge, as the organizations need candidates who stay with them for a long time and contribute to business growth. To be successful, recruiters need to gather candidate data from various sources, find. The post How Recruitment Software Helps Overcome Hiring Challenges appeared first on SutiHR.

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Three Ways to Boost Engagement with Remote Workers

Ceridian

You might have read a recent article that found that remote workers earn more, quit less and are happier than their office-bound colleagues. This is great news for both remote workers and the companies they work with. But it also highlights the point that a company’s engagement with remote workers becomes even more important when you don’t have daily, in-person face time.

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How to Create a Workplace Culture Your People Will Love

Talent Anarchy

The operating system of most organizations is written into its culture. Good or bad, workplace culture is what shapes how we do things, including how we interact with and treat our coworkers. At the heart of workplace culture is values. If we value openness, for example, the way we approach a disagreement might be quite different than if we value harmony or subordination.

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Are you an inspirational leader?

HR Zone

Culture. Are you an inspirational leader?

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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 to Evolve beyond Your Old Open Door Policy

Bonusly

Do you have a minute? Institutional barriers to effective workplace communication, while relatively easy to identify, are certainly hard to disassemble and take out of practice. The open door policies of the 1980s may have given way to today’s open offices and open floor plans, but the crux of open door policies isn’t about the door. The underlying principle is that leaders provide transparency and encourage feedback and open communication by listening to their employees’ concerns and ideas.

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A wake-up call to HR: GDPR is right around the corner

HR Zone

Business. Wake-up call to HR: GDPR is just around the corner.

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3 Ways HR Can Help Shape Organizational Strategy

Paychex

HR can play a pivotal role in shaping company strategies, training staff on strategic models, and providing the tools to help make it happen. In a recent SHRM Annual Conference presentation, Michael Wilkinson of Leadership Strategies, Inc. outlined how HR can take action.

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Do’s and Don’ts of Giving 360 Feedback!

Engagedly

The struggle with 360 feedback does not always deal with the act of giving feedback in itself. Rather, it might deal with trying not to be burnt out while attempting to give good, actionable feedback to a number […].

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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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3 Reasons Your Employees Make Bad Decisions at Open Enrollment

Benefitfocus

Tailoring your open enrollment experience can help employees make more cost-effective benefits decisions. Here's why and how.

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Employees Don’t Like How You’re Talking to Them

Workology

According to a new study 45% of workers are unhappy with how senior management communicates important information to them – especially remote workers, who are often left completely out of the. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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What does a more agile HR look like?

CultureAmp

Asking for and receiving feedback from employees is critical to creating high-performing organizations and individuals. But for a long time, feedback processes - particularly engagement surveys - have been weighed down by process, clinging to antiquated ideas of ‘best practice.’ This approach is now at odds with what organizations want and need from a more agile HR.

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