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Diversity in the Workplace - Benefits, Challenges, and Profitability

Hubert

First thing's first: What is diversity in the workplace? ? When John F Kennedy in 1961 signed what was to be known as the "Affirmative Action", he laid down a foundation that would encourage companies to build a more diverse workforce. The order declared that employers were no longer allowed to discriminate applicants based on their creed, racial and ethnic characteristics, skin color, cultural belonging or origin.

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How you can influence employee behaviour with evidence-based HR

Ascender

While many HR professionals enjoy interacting with diverse people across an organisation it can also cause frustration. Certain actions by employers can instil certain behaviours in their employees. Sometimes these actions (unknowingly) contribute to instilling the wrong behaviours, which is where evidence-based HR comes in. There are ways that HR leaders can encourage employees, based on ongoing data analysis, to make better decisions for themselves utilising ‘choice architecture’ in their co

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What’s the impact of seasonal affective disorder at work, and what can HR do to help?

cipHR

From high absence levels to low productivity, SAD can affect employees in many ways. Here’s how HR can make a difference. As employees return from their holidays and prepare for a new year of work, the low mood in the office can be clearly visible. But for many employees, their low mood in the winter months is more profound. Nearly two million people globally are affected by seasonal affective disorder (SAD) – but what is it, how can it affect employees at work, and what can HR do to help?

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3 Tips for Reskilling Your Workforce in 2020

Visier

To say that corporate reskilling efforts are important would be an understatement. Billion-dollar retraining programs and on-site corporate colleges have become a reality. In a 2018 McKinsey survey, 62% of executives said they will need to retrain or replace more than a quarter of their workforce before 2023. Business model disruptions, demographic shifts, and automation of rote tasks are putting more pressure on individuals to learn, and on employers to give people the right skills at the right

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New DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

There’s a new overtime salary threshold that will impact employers across the country. If you have an employee making less than $43,888 on July 1 or less than $58,656 on January 1, you’re going to have to start paying overtime. Download Paycor’s guide to learn: Which groups of employees are affected? How should you classify employees? Best ways to mitigate risk.

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How HR’s Digital Transformation Will Elevate the Candidate, Employee Experience in 2020

Sterling Check

Human resource and recruiting leaders have experienced unprecedented change in recent years. An array of workplace trends and innovations have combined to reshape how HR delivers value to its business line partners, how recruiters use next-generation technology to perform their jobs, and how the HR function is perceived in the C-suite. In this new year, many of these trends will accelerate, and new ones will also emerge.

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Tips for first-time hiring managers

Workable

That’s where I found myself this past March. I was assigned with a task that would be simple for many but challenging for me: to hire three people for my team. This was the first time I’d be a supervisor, so I was excited for this opportunity and was looking forward to working with them. But first, I had to interview candidates to find the best among them.

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Are High-Skill Occupations “Safe” from Automation?

Visier

New research using AI to match patent language with work shows that AI may reinvent high-skill work sooner than you think. Breakthroughs have unexpected effects. When Amazon first arrived on the scene, books were its early focus for product selection, buyer insights, distribution and pricing. In those early days, retailers typically lamented the plight of bookstores, but relaxed in their conviction that products like clothing, food, jewelry and fashion would be safe. .

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The Key to Engaging New Hires: Psychological Safety

TalentCulture

For those of us who are students of engagement and team-building, we know how key trust, communication and leadership are. But when Google ran two-year study into what makes teams successful, it unlocked a surprising key to high performance and fertile collaboration. Dubbed Project Aristotle, the presented five key factors of great teams: psychological safety, dependability, structure and clarity, meaning, and impact.

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3 Things You MUST Communicate to New Employees on Day 1

Workology

3 Things You MUST Communicate to New Employees on Day 1 You only get one shot at a first impression – make it a good one. Picture this: Your newest employee has just wrapped up Day 1 on the. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Getting Employee Experience Right Is Hard – But It Doesn’t Have To Be

Employee experience has expanded from a basic focus on well-being to a more comprehensive approach that covers all aspects of an employee's journey. But as important as it is to develop and retain top talent by giving employees positive experiences, tension can exist between balancing experience desires and achieving business outcomes.

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5 Eye-Opening Candidate Experience Statistics [INFOGRAPHIC]

TalentLyft

Check out our infographic showing the top 5 eye-opening candidate experience statistics! Discover the most important candidate experience statistics every employer and recruiter should know. Read More.

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Screening applicants: best methods and handy tips

Workable

Well, not yet. Lots of questions will occur down the line. How experienced is this candidate in this must-have skill? How can we interview this applicant who lives two hours away? And ultimately, how do we know who the best candidate is? In this step-by-step guide, you will find useful screening techniques and tips to follow. Before we go into details though, take a step back for a moment to make sure you’ve: Identified all must-have and nice-to-have skills : You may already know the highly impo

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The Top Eleven Recruiting Tech Tools for 2020

TalentCulture

What technologies are truly changing our recruiting capabilities for 2020? I’ve had so many great conversations with innovators in the recruiting and technology space about this. All of us agree we’re entering a new phase of evolution as the world of work gets used to a whole new way of hiring. It’s time to get comfortable with these tools. Learning how to best harness tech is also a matter of enabling it to do the […].

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Bottom-line maternity benefits all good firms offer

HR Morning

For many women entering the workforce, businesses that provide family-forward maternity benefits to better align with the employee’s maternity goals are increasingly attractive. By supplying mothers with provisions that allow them to maintain their breastfeeding goals, along with the proper time to heal during the postpartum period, businesses can reduce healthcare costs and turnover rates while improving morale.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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Partnership with finance: the holy grail for HR?

HR Zone

Business Should HR be partnering with finance?

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Employee Engagement is not a “program”

Employee Engagement Group

By: Bob Kelleher Employee Engagement is more than a program; it entails a cultural shift — a change in how things are done and communicated from the top to the bottom of an organization. Engagement cannot be shunted to the end of every meeting, where it will stand a higher chance of being given short. [Read More].

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#WorkTrends: Why Employee Engagement is a Joke

TalentCulture

Mark Babbitt joined Meghan M. Biro for the January 10, 2020 #WorkTrends podcast to talk about employee engagement. Meghan brought up the fact that only half of all employees feel like they have a career, and Mark concurred. We’ve turned engagement from a good idea into a joke, he noted, and pointed out that engagement levels are the same as they were in the 1980s: “If there’s eight million blog posts and hundreds of experts […].

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The Importance Of Peer Feedback At Workplace

Engagedly

Improving employee performance and increasing organizational productivity is a challenge for every manager. What can you do differently to improve your employee performance? Feedback about their performance is the first step but there’s so much more you can […].

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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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Five talent management trends to watch in 2020

HR Zone

Employees Talent management in 2020.

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Internal Mobility: Whose Responsibility Is It, Anyway?

Paddle HR

Internal mobility is crucial to building the workforce of the future and creating career growth for your employees. You’ve read about internal mobility in important industry publications. You've heard about it at conferences. Why? It’s the modern talent strategy for the modern talent professional. You’ve even brought up a few dazzling initiatives to your superiors.

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How Men Can Help To Advance Women In The Workplace

Forbes Coaches Council

One area of focus that could help move the needle is for more men to become allies or advocates in the advancement of women in today's workplaces.

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Tackling mental health issues at work in 2020

HR Morning

We are at a critical juncture in how we choose to address and tackle mental health issues at work, and in our larger society. There is no debate that the conversation is shifting. Awareness about mental health issues is becoming mainstream with actors, musicians, sports celebrities, and even the British royal family raising their voices, sharing their stories, and making it “okay to not be okay.”.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Why it’s time to say farewell to that ‘future of work’ trope forever

HR Zone

Change Say farewell to that ‘future of work’ trope.

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Let’s Commit to More Effective Meetings

DDI

Poorly run meetings are assuredly as old as meetings themselves. But what is new is that we can now draw on a body of research to have more effective meetings.

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6 Workplace Trends HRs Should Be Ready For In 2020

Engagedly

With changing times, the way organizations function has changed a lot over the past few years. We all can agree upon one thing that the workplace culture in the future is going to be very different from the […].

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Benefits of Working With a Recruiter

GetFive

When job searching, it’s tempting to go it alone. However, it also can be a lonely journey with numerous roadblocks. You apply at many positions and you may interview at a few. If you don’t get a second interview or even an offer, you’re typically left with questions on top of frustration. And this frustration builds over time. In addition to a career coach , a good recruiter can make a big difference in your job search success.

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Ethical & Data Driven AI in HCM: 3 Considerations for Enterprise Leaders

Since entering the public business domain, AI has proven to be a powerful tool for optimizing HR functions — from streamlining recruitment processes, to helping identify top talent, and even boosting employee engagement. As AI continues to grow, the main question surrounding this rapidly evolving technology has shifted from "what can we do?" to "what should we do?

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Mental health at work: giving men a voice

HR Zone

Culture Mental health: Giving men a voice.

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Employer branding is crucial in the war for talent

HR Digest

In today’s digital world, candidates want to work for companies they trust and respect. If you fail to convince them you’re good enough to work for, they’ll pass. To get more out of your recruitment efforts, you need to revisit your employer branding. The acquisition of the right talent is half the battle won in the recruitment process. It is imperative that a company hires the right person as the effort put in onboarding, training, and mentoring a recruit goes to waste and is not cost-effective

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7 Ways to Reduce Workplace Negativity

Engagedly

Employees don’t leave companies, they leave bad bosses and colleagues, and a toxic environment. You must have heard this a million times. But how often have you really invested much thought to it? If not, NOW is the […].

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