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

DecisionWise

Autonomy is the power to shape your work and environment in ways that allow you to perform at your best. Some people feel stifled in their jobs. In fact, 34 percent of employees say they can’t speak up for fear of negative consequences. Autonomy doesn’t mean “no rules and free reign.” We all work under guidelines. But when we understand our parameters, and have the freedom to do our best work, we are more creative, innovative, passionate and, ultimately, more effective.

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3 Ways to Improve the Candidate Experience

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from my new book, “ The Recruiter’s Handbook: A Complete Guide for Sourcing, Selecting, and Engaging the Best Talent “ (SHRM, 2018) SHRM members can order a discounted copy at the SHRMStore. Enjoy!). Organizations with a candidate experience strategy in place realize the work isn’t over. You’ll want to regularly audit your process to ensure it’s working the way you intended.

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Are you “True” to your game?

The Tim Sackett Project

There is a phrase that is often used in a number of contexts, the phrase is: “Stay true to the game” . I’ve always almost seen it used when talking about sports, and almost always in basketball. But I’ve seen it used across pop culture for decades. “The game” is that thing you do. Maybe it’s sales. Maybe it’s accounting.

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How to Eliminate Paper with Onboarding Software for Staffing Companies

Efficient Hire

Onboarding software for staffing companies isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity. A typical employer may see new hire paperwork as a nuisance they have to deal with. But a staffing firm that focuses on hiring and onboarding new people can’t. Read more. The post How to Eliminate Paper with Onboarding Software for Staffing Companies appeared first on Efficient Forms.

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Unlocking Employee Potential with the Power of Continuous Feedback

Speaker: Erin Daruszka and Nakisha Dixon

Recent studies show that only 21% of employees feel their performance and growth are within their control. What if the answer to employee development and high performance lies elsewhere? Enter continuous feedback. Imagine a work environment where feedback isn't a dreaded annual event, but a constant source of growth. Join us to discover how ongoing, actionable feedback empowers your team to take ownership of their performance, boosting engagement and development.

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Getting Social Media Recruiting on the Right Track for Diversity

HR Daily Advisor

Recruiters may find themselves in a love-hate relationship with social media. Previously, we’ve addressed how it’s great for finding and attracting strong candidates, but it’s also possible to use social media to exclude candidates that might lead an employer to a more diverse workforce. Solutions to that conundrum do exist, though. The risk of using certain social media tools is highlighted in a December 2017 lawsuit that claims certain employers used Facebook to push job ads to young people wi

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Dear ReWorker: What Belongs In the Employee Handbook?

Cornerstone On Demand

Dear ReWorker, My company has an Employee Manual stating company policies on vacation, sick time, tardiness, overtime, absences, conduct, appearance, drug testing, etc. We do not, however, spell out company policy regarding the day-to-day operation of our business. We would like to start issuing written warnings to employees that violate operational policies by being rude to customers, charging items to customers with bad credit, not returning items to vendors in a timely manner and breaking ot

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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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How Leadership Can Reap Big Rewards By Creating A “Self-Care Culture”

15Five

We used to just call them “mental health days.” Those days when you just need to get some separation from the daily grind, refresh yourself, and do whatever it takes to get a break from multitasking and workplace tech. Of course, now we understand more clearly the link between employee happiness and outcomes like higher engagement, increased productivity, and business growth.

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New Hire Onboarding: Take a Pulse to Increase Employee Retention

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Readex Research , which provides expert survey services to help businesses understand their internal and external customers. Their services include employee experience surveys. Enjoy the post!). With unemployment levels at historic lows, it’s no wonder that employee retention is a priority.

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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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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 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. March 2018 Jobs Report: Unemployment at 17-Year Low for Sixth Straight Month -- by Robert Half. 2.

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Why Bosses Should Allow More Schedule Flexibility

Kazoo

A positive culture is the backbone of a vibrant and productive workplace, and a proper work-life balance helps to build it. There are many positive benefits of granting additional freedom to employees. From happier employees to a more relaxed atmosphere, to increased respect and trust. Below are some ways in which a liberated schedule flexibility will work in your favor: Productivity Increase Why .

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12 Tips for SHRM Annual Conference Attendees: #SHRM18

HR Bartender

For those of us in the human resources profession, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference is approaching. This year’s event will be held June 17-20, 2018 in Chicago. This is a must-go event for me. I’m really looking forward to the opportunity to see fellow bloggers that I interact with on Facebook and Twitter and people who I worked with as a SHRM volunteer.

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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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4 Ways to Attract More Female Applicants at Your Next Recruiting Session

Cornerstone On Demand

The lack of women in tech is a growing concern. An analysis of half a billion candidate profiles by Entelo found that only 18 percent of tech roles, including positions in engineering, data science and product are held by women in the U.S., and the statistics are even more bleak in the C-Suite—only 10 percent of tech leaders are female. But why is this happening?

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The Challenge of Empathy

The Aristocracy of HR

000000000000 Before I get to my story, a quote from a 2017 Forbes article titled: “How Empathetic Are You, Really?” On empathy, the author Liz Guthridge says: “Being empathetic is similar to cooking. You may know the recipe for how to prepare empathy. But until you actually use the recipe a few times, taste the […].

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Why Bosses Should Allow More Schedule Flexibility

Kazoo

A positive culture is the backbone of a vibrant and productive workplace, and a proper work-life balance helps to build it. There are many positive benefits of granting additional freedom to employees. From happier employees to a more relaxed atmosphere, to increased respect and trust. Below are some ways in which a liberated schedule flexibility will work in your favor: Productivity Increase Why .

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What is Overtime Pay?

Justworks

When people think of overtime pay, they tend to think of it as wages paid for any work over 40 hours a week at one-and-a-half times the regular hourly wage. While that’s partially correct, it isn't the whole story. Looking for more guidance? Download our guide on How to Correctly Classify Your Workers today. What are the Federal Overtime Laws? Introduced in 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a federal law which regulates minimum wage, overtime, equal pay, recordkeeping, and.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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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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Manager and Employee Relationships: The Importance of Mentorship

Achievers

The title of “manager” makes it sound like your entire responsibility is simply keeping track of your employees and maximizing their performance. Of course you want to elicit high-level productivity from your team, but your fastest route to success is to offer something back to the people who work for you. The most successful managers enter into a mentoring, or “coaching,” relationship with their direct reports.

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7 Reasons Leaders Should Focus on Developing Employee Soft Skills

The People Equation

Why are we still talking about the importance of leaders developing employee soft skills? Here’s why: the more that automation in all of its forms become part of our daily work lives, the more we need to bring to bear the one thing that a machine will never be: human. And that humanity is most often talked about in the context of developing “soft skills”—those uniquely human traits that allow us to grease the wheels of human interaction.

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Trending Payroll Statistics

Staying up-to-date on the latest decisions and payroll statistics ensures businesses can remain compliant and efficient. B2B Reviews research compiled the latest data to help businesses stay on top of payroll in 2024 and prepare for the future.

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[Infographic] What Benefits Matter Most to Employees?

Hppy

People tend to stay in one place if they are comfortable at it and feel like they are being treated well. Employees, for example, could stay longer in a company if they are pleased with the benefits they receive. Benefits are a way to motivate employees and allow them to do other things that will help them grow and succeed in their careers. Providing good benefits to employees have its advantages such that if they are attracted to the benefits your business offers, they will most likely stay in

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Want Diversity in the Workplace? Rethink Your Recruitment Process

Justworks

“Building and recruiting a diverse team is easy.” That’s a sentence that you’ve probably never heard any entrepreneur or talent acquisition professional say. It’s actually quite the opposite of the truth, and diversity in the workplace has been highly emphasized over the last decade or so — with good reason. A McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that companies in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above.

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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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AMBITION WEEK: Value The Folks In Your Organization Who Are Dissatisfied (In a Good Way).

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 Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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[Infographic] 9 No-Fail Tips For Giving Productive Feedback

Hppy

If you want to grow and develop at work, it’s essential that you have access to frequent feedback and conversations focused on your professional development. At all types of organizations and at all levels, getting clear and direct feedback is important for improving at your job and mastering new skills. By making it a priority to check in often with your direct reports and your manager, you are making a commitment to their personal growth and your own.

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4 Secrets to Improve the Candidate Experience with Digital Tactics

Spark Hire

The candidate experience is one of the most important and overlooked aspects of your hiring process. To deliver an excellent candidate experience, consider all of the aspects involved. When you’re focused on attracting talent , building your employer brand, talent sourcing , and everything in between, you’re directly impacting the candidate experience.

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I’m frustrated that my employee didn’t want the post-baby flexibility I arranged for her

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: One of the people on my team announced she was pregnant. I was thrilled for her and wanted to be supportive manager. This company is too small to qualify for FMLA but they do have their own program in place for emergency and medical leave which is similar to FMLA. It allows for 12 weeks paid and we don’t have to use our vacation time first.