UpstartHR

MARCH 22, 2016

Technology is everywhere in the workplace today, but one of the biggest problems for many companies is integrating the various systems they have. If you have a favorite performance management system and want that to feed into your company’s learning management system so you aren’t duplicating entries and potentially messing up data, good luck. Nobody speaks to each other.

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Globoforce

MARCH 22, 2016

Forward-thinking HR and business leaders are focusing more on metrics related to employee well-being and happiness, in addition to traditional satisfaction or engagement. But how do we define happiness and well-being? Are they related? Social connection – the breadth and depth of our relationships. The way we perceive stresses – as challenges instead of threats. New research on meaning at work.

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ATD Human Capital

MARCH 22, 2016

Performance management system failure most often comes down to a lack of clear purpose. It cannot be a garbage can of different objectives. However, a lack of alignment can also derail performance management systems. Is Performance Management Aligned? Managers are usually on the hot seat for failures. But wait a minute! What if individual development plans are not supported? Period.

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ClearCompany HRM

MARCH 22, 2016

If you ’ve never had the pleasure (or discomfort) of watching the television show Hoarders , you may not know how unsettling clutter can be. Stacks of newspapers, shelves collapse under canned goods. Furniture, pets and even people can find themselves disoriented and hidden under piles of old items that are no longer useful. Spring Cleaning Hiring Process

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Your employees are the most valuable asset in your organization, so ensuring that they are performing at their best should be a priority for any leadership team. This is where building a strong company culture using data becomes critical to achieving your strategic goals. Strong cultures are associated with higher employee engagement and performance, as well as stronger financial performance for the company as a whole.

Dice

MARCH 22, 2016

Whatever their specialty, software developers are in high demand—but how much are they actually earning? That depends on a number of factors, of course, including seniority, geographic location, and skillset. As with our recent article about tech-executive earnings , it’s worth taking a moment to break down our methodology. By emphasizing the median salary (i.e., Mean Salary: $117,875.

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Switch and Shift

MARCH 22, 2016

You’ve heard that investing in wellness can help reduce healthcare costs -- but is that all it can do? What’s the real ROI of employee well-being? Read More» The post Employee Well-Being Impacts the Bottom Line: 4 Factors to Know appeared first on Switch & Shift. Employee Engagement Employee Health employee well being

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TLNT: The Business of HR

MARCH 22, 2016

Employers don’t leave organizations, they leave  … Best Practices Boomerangs Culture HR Insights HR Management HR Trends Leadership Offboarding Onboarding Talent Management Workforce Featured

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QAspire

MARCH 22, 2016

The purpose of an organization is to enable people in doing meaningful work that delivers value to the customers and hence to the business. Organizations start purely with this promise but when they scale, they end up stifling people’s ability to deliver value. The list goes on.”. The post further offers 8 symptoms of organizations on the cup of change.

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Since the 1950s, business leaders have embraced a variety of management techniques designed to improve employee performance. In 1999, John Doerr introduced Objectives – Key Results (OKRs) to Google, a model he first learned about at Intel, and revolutionized goal setting. Today, OKRs are a de facto standard for aligning company and individual goals.

ej4 HR

MARCH 22, 2016

There are over 893 groups in LinkedIn dedicated to change management, a fact which tells us two things: One, executives and business owners are worried about change and want to learn how to manage it effectively, and two, they believe change management is something they can learn. It’s no wonder training for change management has [.]. The post Can You Truly Teach Change Management? appeared first on. Leadership Training Performance Improvement Training & Development

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Reward Gateway

MARCH 22, 2016

Last month, we had 100% of our employees engage with our internal communications platform. You read that right. Every single one of our employees logged into our platform to check our multiple blogs and campaigns. Open & Honest Communication

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Dice

MARCH 22, 2016

How many tech workers are either independent contractors or freelancers? Roughly 1 million, according to new data from CompTIA (PDF). Overall tech employment stood at 6.7 million in 2015, according to the firm, which represents a significant increase from 6.5 million employed in 2014. In total, that’s the equivalent of 5.7 percent of the total U.S. private-sector workforce.

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How fast should you respond to emails at work?

HR Zone

MARCH 22, 2016

Perform. How fast should you respond to emails at work

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Employees today want more than a steady, well-paid job at a promising company. In this competitive job market, employers are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit, retain, and motivate top talent. Yet, they continue to rely on outdated employee engagement strategies that no longer work. As pressures increase from an evolving workforce, organizations from startups to enterprises must prioritize employment engagement now more than ever.

Paychex

MARCH 22, 2016

Are you as an employer fully aware of your various payroll tax and deposit responsibilities? Employers who neglect these responsibilities may face stiff penalties from state and federal tax agencies. Here's an overview of what every employer should know about the subject

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David Zinger

MARCH 22, 2016

Let’s Focus on Work and Love our Labor. have recently been looking at pictures of best employers and great places to work. There are so many pictures of fun that one could easily confuse engagement with just having fun, running on the workplace treadmill, and sipping away a morning with a lovely latte. That is why I define employee engagement as: good work done well with others every day.

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TalentCulture

MARCH 22, 2016

Rapid changes in technology have affected businesses in more ways than we can count, from globalization and organizational adjustments to a workforce clamoring for remote and mobile job opportunities—and human resources has had to adapt swiftly. If HR wants to continue to play a critical role in helping businesses anticipate and manage organizational change, it must have technology at its core. Talent analytics and workplace analysis will become more commonplace, and companies using the data available to them will be far more competitive.  . Get Smarter With Big Data.

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Cost of Work

MARCH 22, 2016

“All year long I am writing about race relations in America because things are so poor – anger and hatred seem to dominate the news. We are less tolerant than any point over the last 30 years.” ” Seriously, just the thought of being educated or asked to celebrate or honor black history pisses some people off to the bone! The history of both. know women’s history month is observed in March and Black History Month is in February. know that BHM was originally a week in honor of its creator Carter G. Woodson who was born in February. White History Month? Presidents?

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A better way to develop front-line managers !It’s well documented that people leave managers – not companies. Download this guide to learn how to shift the perspective from event to journey and how to take learners through Proficiency Journeys to get results.

UrbanBound HR

MARCH 22, 2016

By now you should be familiar, or getting familiar, with these stellar young men and women. But just to be safe, Millennials are the cohort of children born between 1980 and 2005ish, and the largest age group since the Baby Boomers, totalling around 80 million. Just in the last year, they passed Generation X to become the largest percentage of the workforce. Thanks to the New York Times , now is once again a good time to discuss the ways millennials tend to stand out in an office, what the actual root cause is, and how to address it best. Millennials HR

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TLNT: The Business of HR

MARCH 22, 2016

One of the challenges of implementing a social recognition solution is developing employees’ capacity and comfort around peer-to-peer aspects. Employee Recognition Engagement HR Communications HR Management HR News HR Trends Retention & Engagement Talent Management Featured

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Strategic HCM

MARCH 22, 2016

John Boudreau has posted recently on the use of digital platforms ( see my recent post ) to transform employment and other types of work. It's an interesting read though I'm not sure whether there are really four quadrants as in the model above - I think the transformation of work and the use of technology to transform it will pretty much go hand-in-hand. And you can't (yet) do that on an app.

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The Aristocracy of HR

MARCH 22, 2016

010020000010 One of the first things I learned in Industrial Psychology was the breakdown and distribution of labor. learned what it meant to have a full-time equivalent (FTE), part-time, temporary and per-diem/on-call staff. Each of these components serves a different and essential purpose to your workforce planning.  In fact, you cannot actually get any […].

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The future of the formal performance review is sparking lively debates. No matter what side you fall on, everyone agrees that effective managers make managing performance part of their daily routine. In this infographic quickly learn “5 Critical Skills for Managing Performance” every day.

Achievers

MARCH 22, 2016

There are many ways to define or approach a company mission statement , but the intent is the same in all cases: Mission statements are meant to align an organization’s employees to a clear, primary purpose. They understand job demands and performance evaluations, but aren’t able to see how their own daily efforts impact the bigger picture. What’s more heartwarming than that? Clarks.

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The HR Capitalist

MARCH 22, 2016

Nails on the chalkboard. Atlanta traffic. Other people's snoring. YouTube ads. Waiting in a line more than 4 people deep. These things? All things that reasonable people agree we can hate. You don't like those things. Neither do I. Let's add something to that list from corporate America. Something we all should hate and agree it must be stomped out - like the pox on society it is. THAT IS ALL

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Ohio Employer's Law

MARCH 22, 2016

Employee handbooks come in all shapes and sizes. For example, some employers have policies that create a probationary period for employees during the initial few months of employment. Some employers have progressive discipline policies. Some grant formal appeal rights to employees who are disciplined or terminated. And some set forth terms of compensation, benefits, and time-off. Is your handbook a contract of employment, or a compilation of discretionary policy statements? In Staschiak v. Because the handbook lacked any disclaimer language, the court held that he could. employment policies

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Outmatch

MARCH 22, 2016

Did you think some of your selections were a sure thing? Maybe you selected prestigious schools and overlooked the underdogs. Now your bracket is busted and you are left relying on a select few in order to win your bracket challenge. The same thing occurs when companies select new talent. Companies narrow down the candidate pool and eventually select the person they feel is best for the position.

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Wanted: A better way to develop front-line managers! It’s well documented that people leave managers – not companies. Download this guide to gain key insights into why so many programs fall short and learn 4 key principles for designing an effective solution.

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HR Zone

MARCH 22, 2016

Talent. Recruiting with an 85 year old legacy at stake

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New to HR

MARCH 22, 2016

In any successful organization, the key to future success is creating an effective strategic partnership between HR and the Chief Executive. This ensures that the tactical and strategic considerations of the organization continue to work together, rather than in a disjointed manner or, worse, at cross-purposes. The first way to create an effective partnership between HR and the CEO is to make the company’s approach to human capital part of the overriding mission statement of the organization. Naturally, this then establishes hiring priorities for the organization.

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Blogging 4 Jobs

MARCH 22, 2016

With all the prognostications about the future of work perhaps the one that disturbs people the most is the one that says by the year 2030 2 billion jobs will not exist anymore. To think that almost 50% of the current jobs on earth will be gone can be pretty disturbing. So how do you make sure you are still employed if you are currently under the age of 60? Awareness. Retool.

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TLNT: The Business of HR

MARCH 22, 2016

Editor’s Note: As I wind down as Editor of TLNT — yes, I’m leaving next month— I wanted to share some of my all-time favorite TLNT posts. Here’s one from September 2013. Candidate Engagement Disengaged Employees Engagement HR Insights HR Management Retention & Engagement Talent Management Featured

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