By Dr. Steven Hunt, Vice President, Customer Research at SuccessFactors (Originally posted on SAP Community Network) This is the second post in a two-part blog series on employee engagement. Strategic HR Talent Management Thought Leadership Dr. Steven Hunt Employee Engagement HCM Human Capital Management performance management MORE

But for most businesses, managing employee taxes is an extremely complex endeavor, as you’ll need to manually navigate through thousands of tax jurisdictions—there are 7,000 in Pennsylvania alone—to assign the correct tax code for each employee. And the price of non-compliance is steep; in 2014, the IRS issued 6.8 The post Using Payroll Software to Alleviate Tax-Time Woes appeared first on Ultimate Software's Blog. MORE

She has nearly fifteen years of experience envisioning, designing, developing, implementing and evangelizing global Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions and holds a certificate in Strategic Human Resources Practices from Cornell University. If you want to read more from Laura, check out her talent management blog Working Girl or follow her on Twitter @WorkGal. MORE

In 2014, she was appointed senior vice president of products, and Workday now has more than 5,500 employees and 1,100 customers worldwide. She’s responsible for application direction and strategy, including Workday Financial Management and Workday Human Capital Management. Levensaler is an opinionated and decisive leader, yet at the same time, takes a collaborative approach to management. But she’s also incredibly human. MORE

I''m looking forward to the Economist''s 2014 ’s Talent Management Summit on Thursday. I’m going to devote this post to the New Global Currency and I’ll be blogging here on all the other later sessions, as well as these earlier ones, at the conference. So why aren’t talent and leadership strategies keeping pace with today’s fast-changing world? However I always explain that human capital is what people provide, it ’ s not jargon for the people themselves. MORE

Chances are that your company is turning to social media more and more to recruit the talent it needs. With more than one billion monthly users on Facebook and more than 360 million members on LinkedIn, social media is where many applicants are connected and connecting; and where social media-savvy employers are proactively reaching prime prospects to fill vacancies in the current war for talent. How Social Recruiting Helps Target Quality Talent. Talent Management MORE

By: Angie Poulsen, Human Resource Manager at First Credit Union & Insurance. Recognizing the difference is critical because, as Roberston explained, this type of conversational approach to coaching “empowers the employee to act while their manager supports them. Blogs and social media networks are great platforms to share updates and information that would be of interest to your customers, and both help demonstrate your social responsibility. MORE

As mobile job-seeking gains popularity, today’s candidates increasingly want tools that leverage the latest social and mobile technology — from mobile-enabled job alerts and postings to the ability to apply via smartphone to tracking applications, viewing job postings and reading job-related blogs, forums and articles. For example, the research found that 44% of recruiters listed LinkedIn as “extremely” or “very” useful in their pursuit of new talent. Talent Management MORE

With organizational appetites for technology upgrades growing, the HR function is more frequently finding itself in the long sought position of selecting new human capital tools that will elevate talent and facilitate the achievement of business objectives. As recently as the July/August 2014 Harvard Business Review Blog, Ram Charan, a noted CEO advisor and business author, argued that CHROs are not equipped to integrate business considerations. MORE

In my last post The Politics of Performanc e I wrote about how manager bias during the performance review process may impact an organisation''s ability to accurately identify and retain critical talent. That''s why it''s important to identify the best managers in the organisation, i.e. the ones who look out for their teams and operate with the least personal bias for the good of the organisation. But how do you identify the best managers? MORE

The most obvious example of this was when I was a Promotions Manager for a radio station where, at age 25, I had responsibility for a small team and a sizeable budget. When I learned that the man who reported to me, setting up for events and managing on-location broadcasts, earned more than I did, I was told that “my time would come” and that he had a higher salary because he was married and had a family. MORE

But for most businesses, managing employee taxes is an extremely complex endeavor, as you’ll need to manually navigate through thousands of tax jurisdictions—there are 7,000 in Pennsylvania alone—to assign the correct tax code for each employee. And the price of non-compliance is steep; in 2014, the IRS issued 6.8 The post Using Payroll Software to Alleviate Tax-Time Woes appeared first on Ultimate Software's Blog. MORE

The 2015 Human Capital Management (HCM) Vendor Brandscape Report , released just last month by The Starr Conspiracy Intelligence Unit’s (TSCIU) George LaRocque, hit the web with a splash of industry-wide social sharing. Small and medium-sized businesses—the SMB segment—are proving to be anything but puny when it comes to human capital management. If you''d like to contribute to the Namely blog, zip him an email. MORE