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10 Dead Simple Ways to Improve Your Company Culture

Bonusly

What’s the company culture like at your organization? While individual teams can have sub-cultures of their own, company culture is always informed by your larger company values, mission, and goal. But… where do you start? ??. Company culture is never a one-size-fits-all solution, but there are some easy, actionable steps you can take today to improve your company culture, both in the short and long term.

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Is flexible working the future of employment?

Hppy

According to a report published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 46.4% of employees in London worked at home “at some point” in 2020, with many taking this new-found way of working into the new year too. Many companies, in fact, decided to pivot towards a more flexible way of working over the past year, giving their employees freedom to choose their hours and whether they want to work from the office or to be flexible.

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Learning ‘At the Moment of Need’ Transforms HR Tech Training

SHRM Resources

When recruiters for the global staffing firm ManpowerGroup had to quickly learn how to use a newly implemented applicant tracking system (ATS), they weren’t given.

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Full-Time vs. Part-Time Employees

Helpside

Each business is unique with individual and changing needs. Each company needs to decide which types of employees will best meet the needs of the organization. When considering the schedules of your employees, you may want to weigh the pros and cons of full-time versus part-time employees. . The interesting thing about full-time and part-time is that there is no set definition for either.

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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Clark Construction Combines Great Talent With Field Mobility for a Bright Future

Workday

As they are with many industries, talent acquisition and retention are critical to a construction company’s success. At the same time, construction firms often need their people to apply their knowledge, skills, and experience across many projects, often on a daily basis. To attract and retain the best available talent, Clark Construction, a 4,200-employee builder with offices and job sites across the U.S., sets itself apart from other firms in the types and levels of responsibility it offers it

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California Trucking Association Petitions U.S. Supreme Court Over AB 5

SHRM Resources

The California Trucking Association recently asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on whether federal law pre-empts California’s worker-classification law as it applies to motor carriers.

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Canada Pay Equity Act Takes Effect Today

Trusaic

The Canada Pay Equity Act goes into effect today, August 31, 2021, marking the official commencement of a major international move to advance workplace equality. The Act has been highly anticipated since its original passage in 2018. Now that the law is in full force, affected employers must develop and implement pay equity plans that address systemic gender-based discrimination in their workplaces.

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Why Cross-Cultural Communication Is Crucial In The Workplace

Hppy

Like most countries around the world, the U.S. is a proverbial melting pot of cultures that we encounter almost everywhere. Including at work. The only real response is to embrace it, as cross-cultural communication can and does drive workplace success. The U.S. already is home to thriving communities from various cultures. According to figures from 2018, more than 44 million people in the U.S. were born in other countries.

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update: my employee gave me an “it’s her or me” ultimatum

Ask a Manager

This post, update: my employee gave me an “it’s her or me” ultimatum , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Remember the manager last week whose employee given her an “it’s her or me” ultimatum ? I wrote that it seemed like that employee had it in for her coworker and wasn’t trustworthy and that the manager was pretty badly mishandling the situation.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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The Strategic Role of Automated Accounts Payable in Business

SutiHR

Previously observed as a back-office function, accounts payable (AP) is identified as the team that acts as the main hub for controlling spend management. As AP shifts into a visible role of handling spend, the employees get the opportunity to take an increasingly strategic role. If you work in AP, you might be wondering how it’s going to keep up with the demands being placed on as accounts payable takes on a pivotal role in the organization.

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Here’s why AI is making HR pros indispensable

HRExecutive

Artificial intelligence has the potential to help human resource professionals make a massive impact on their company’s culture, performance, efficiency and diversity. When embraced and applied properly, AI can become a secret weapon for hiring professionals in avoiding the obligatory, monotonous tasks they’ve always resented, while enabling hiring teams to unearth things about their candidate pools that would otherwise remain unseen.

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Don’t Let These Negotiation Myths Hold You Back—Here’s How to Shake Them

The Muse

I’ve helped 200+ people with their offer negotiations and found that these common hangups seem to get in everybody’s way. Here’s how to move past them.

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will I be fired if I refuse a Covid test, I didn’t get a thank-you after helping someone, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, will I be fired if I refuse a Covid test, I didn’t get a thank-you after helping someone, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Will my employer fire me on the spot if I refuse to get a Covid test? On September 13, the healthcare company I work for will begin requiring unvaccinated employees to get weekly Covid testing, at employee expense, with results to be submitted to your manager.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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How to Nurture Organisational Culture and Engage Your Employees

6Q

Excellent business behaviour is key to the collective success of an organisation. Let’s discuss organisational culture; what it is about, its importance to achieving and maintaining success, and how to achieve a well-cultured corporation. Organisational culture is simply the proper way to behave within an organisation. It is the collection, principles, values, and practices that guide the actions of all team members.

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Remote recruitment overseas: what do employers need to know?

HR Zone

Acquisition Four ways to recruit overseas employees.

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25 of the Highest-Paying Jobs in America—and How to Get Them

The Muse

From physicians and other healthcare professionals to roles in engineering, sales, marketing, finance, and more—all with average annual wages above $125,000.

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my office got us turtles to take care of and bring home on weekends

Ask a Manager

This post, my office got us turtles to take care of and bring home on weekends , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work for a nonprofit and Covid has been very stressful for us. We are understaffed, overworked and underpaid, like many nonprofits. But recently our president announced something that is suppose to “bring staff together”: they got every office a turtle to keep and take care of.

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The Employer’s Guide to Early Cancer Detection

A comprehensive early detection strategy for cancer is no longer a nice-to-have for employers; it’s a must. The reality is 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, and the physical, emotional, and financial impact on both employees and employers is great. To help improve your employees’ health outcomes and reduce cancer-related costs, download The Employer’s Guide to Early Detection.

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Information overload: How to manage it

Insperity

Culturally, the concept of information overload has been around since the ‘70s when Alvin and Heidi Toffler first coined the term in their book Future Shock. At that time, car phones were about to become the latest communication craze, just like the computer before it. Information, it seemed, was about to come from everywhere. And now it does. What does information overload feel like?

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Performance management and wellbeing in a virtual world

HR Zone

People Performance management in a virtual world.

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Top 10 Qualities of a Team Leader

6Q

Maintaining the grip within a team and guiding them towards a vision is quite a tough job. A leader is someone to whom all the team members look up to at every step in a workflow. The achievement of a team working towards a goal hugely depends on the shoulders of the team leader, and he has to take the load for the success of the whole team. Here are the top 10 qualities of a team leader, to keep track of a team and head them towards the right path.

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my company wants me to investigate what expensive medical treatments employees are having and why

Ask a Manager

This post, my company wants me to investigate what expensive medical treatments employees are having and why , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I took a job a few months ago doing benefits for a new company and recently have started to feel uneasy about one of my job duties. For now this particular duty has been delegated to my manager (who has experience in benefits but only started at this company a week before me), so I haven’t been doing it, b

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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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The Power of People You Overlook

SHRM Resources

Changing your mindset about aging employees, workers with disabilities, military veterans, people who were formerly incarcerated and people with criminal records means.

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How women can break into non-exec board positions

HR Zone

Change How women can break into non-exec board positions.

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8 Entry-Level Roles to Break Into the Technology Industry

The Muse

These jobs are great entry points into the tech sector, whether or not you can code. Plus, learn what each role is, which skills you need, and what jobs you can get next.

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Tips for Virtual Networking During #SHRM21

SHRM

The SHRM Annual Conference and Expo is back! The last time I attended the conference was in 2019—which feels like such a long time ago—and that’s because it got canceled in 2020. So, I’m excited and looking forward to my third annual conference. Have you been seeing my countdown on Twitter? Lol. Next week, from September 9th through the 12th, SHRM will be holding its 2021 Annual Conference and Exposition (SHRM21) in Las Vegas with the theme, “Now More Than Ever.

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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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In business and sport, the difference between dreams and reality is persistence

Take It Personel-ly

As Beverly Sills once said, “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” Mt Robson is the most prominent and highest mountain in the rocky mountain range. The mountain is heavily glaciated with a colossal snow-capped peak. It has an insane failure rate for climbing to the peak. Only 10% make it with lousy […].

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Why a ‘punctuated week’ (not just a four-day working week) is a game changer for employee wellbeing

HR Zone

People Is it time to adopt the ‘punctuated week’?

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Q&A With Steve Flook, President & CEO of iHire

Workology

This interview is part of a new series on Workology that features an HR Technology company, its founder and its features. For this post, we’re talking to Steve Flook, President and CEO of iHire. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.