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What Is Human Resources?

Analytics in HR

As a department, it is responsible for managing HR activities from recruitment and onboarding, compensation and benefits, learning and development, performance management, and employee relations to separation or retirement. HR is vital in aligning the organization’s business objectives and employees’ needs and aspirations.

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Building An HR Department: A Step-By-Step Guide

HR Tech Girl

Employee relations. Human resources existence in a company is crucial because they help nurture safe a safe work environment, mitigate risks, resolve issues, and nurture employee productivity and motivation. As a general rule, they should always be concise, easy to understand, and available to all employees.

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How this HR exec built the function from the ground up

HRExecutive

Lacking succession planning, staff training, applicant tracking, guidelines for recruiting and interviewing or even a basic HR infrastructure, ACS was seriously in need of a complete HR transformation. Related: HR Executive of the Year is Ellyn Shook . Uncharted Waters.

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Everything you need to know about HR department structures

Bob

Their responsibilities include employee relations , benefits administration, and tracking professional engagement and performance. However, organizations that wish to focus on particular functions of HR—such as talent management, succession planning, or learning and development—may increase the proportion of relevant HR team members.

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4 Ways to Kill Employee Trust

HRExecutive

A wide range of tools and technologies now in use by HR organizations around the world are collecting volumes of employee-related data. Outside of HR, companies are using systems that assess employee emails for network analysis, record conference calls and video meetings, and monitor employee activities through badges.

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The Challenge of the Future Workforce #EWS2015

Women of HR

63% of employers have increased succession planning and efforts to address impeding Boomer retirement. So these groups we’re focusing our recruiting, development, succession planning, and retention efforts on are quite possibly not as happy, engaged, or loyal as we need them to be to ensure our future success.

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HR Business Partner: All You Need To Know About the Role

Analytics in HR

“In a previous role at a fast-growing startup, we recognized that turnover among new hires was increasing, and feedback indicated that new employees were feeling overwhelmed,” says Lambert. For example, HRBP needs to collect and interpret usable data when creating effective guidelines for performance reviews.