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The Importance of the Psychological Contract

MapHR

HR professionals are familiar with contracts. In almost every industry, companies ask potential new employees to sign at least one form or another. However, there is one contract that is not signed: the psychological contract. What is the psychological contract? Rousseau is a H. Click here.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

Resources indicate that the term “employee relations” started to gain popularity around 2006 when, according to CIDP , the meaning began to shift from the industrial relations understanding of employees as a collective whole , and instead emphasize the focus on individual employees.

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Brooks: Want better managers? You need to develop better employees

HRExecutive

HR leaders have a lot of angst about their managers, and whenever I speak to them in sales conversations, at industry events or even in a coaching dynamic, I can feel the frustration in their voices. In order to make better managers, we must have employees meet them halfway. This is a relationship, after all!

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All You Need to Know about Employee Relations

Digital HR Tech

What they do illustrate, however, is that each issue concerns either the contractual, emotional, physical or practical aspects of the employee-employer relationship – or several of these dimensions at the same time. Employee relationship management – Key principles.

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How Can We Be Happier At Work?

TalentCulture

What constitutes meaningful work is dependent on the individual, as evidenced by the importance of the Psychological Contract — so let’s move forward and integrate this into how we view our own work and how we craft management strategy. Let’s embrace individual needs and stop debating common sense.

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Melanie Hicks On How We Need To Adjust To The Future Of Work

Thrive Global

We reached out to successful leaders and thought leaders across all industries to glean their insights and predictions about how to create a future that works. As a part of our interview series called “How Employers and Employees are Reworking Work Together,” we had the pleasure to interview Melanie Hicks, PhD.

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2019 HR tech trends: which ones deserve the hype?

cipHR

The tech industry loves hype and buzzwords. What does employee engagement mean? What did the concept of the psychological contract have to tell us about matching consumerised appetites with our experiences of being at work? In many industry verticals, the compliance agenda is not about to abate.