Dice

AUGUST 12, 2015

Pop quiz: What’s the fastest-growing state for technology jobs? You might be tempted to say California or New York, or even North Carolina. But according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, it’s actually Minnesota, which saw the size of its tech workforce jump 8.36 percent over the past six months, to 37,600 workers. percent and 5.22 percent, respectively. percent, 0.63

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Insperity

AUGUST 12, 2015

You’re doing your best just to hang in there. When running a family business, it’s easy to let things fall off the radar because you’re putting out today’s fires, and not thinking about tomorrow. However, if you don’t take the time to establish clear roles, policies and procedures for your business and its employees, you’re building a house without a foundation.

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TLNT: The Business of HR

AUGUST 12, 2015

Company culture is like parenting. Parents want their kids to be happy. But if that fleeting happiness is the only goal, more important things are bypassed. You can give your kids $50 every time they go out with their friends. You can ignore it when they sneak out of the house at 2 am, or give in when they throw a wild tantrum on the grocery store floor because they want M&Ms. Engagement.

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HR Daily Advisor

AUGUST 12, 2015

While nearly everyone has heard of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), not everyone knows how many laws and regulations fall within their purview. When pressed, many would guess that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act is within EEOC responsibility—and they would be right—but that’s not all. In general, the EEOC is responsible for laws that relate to discrimination in the workplace.

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Training and learning organizations today play an active role in contributing to the bottom line of any organization by aligning their objectives to the immediate business objectives. This provides a solid ground for cost justification and encourages businesses to place training groups right where they should be, at the heart of a growing, thriving, learning culture.

Workforce Software

AUGUST 12, 2015

Certified Partners to Bring Benefits of Time, Scheduling, and Leave Automation to More Organizations Around the Globe LIVONIA, Mich. 12, 2015) – WorkForce Software®, the leading cloud-based provider of enterprise workforce management solutions, today announced details of its newly launched partner certification program. The program equips WorkForce Software partners with in-depth knowledge of the.

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45 Things

AUGUST 12, 2015

You have to work hard to connect the meaning of what people do every day to the mission of the company,” he says. For example, when Whitehurst was COO with Delta, he was charged with leading the company out of bankruptcy and restoring confidence. That was something they understood, something they could control,” he says. Being happy has nothing to do with it. Trusting outsiders to add value?

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Quantum Workplace

AUGUST 12, 2015

The old school, once-a-year performance review is tired and pretty worthless. Managers dread them. Leadership gets little value from them. And when it comes to employee motivation, productivity, and engagement, they end up doing more harm than good. There’s no way around it. Annual performance reviews need to be replaced. Our friends at findmyshift Read more. Employee Engagement

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What Do Consumers Really think about Background Checks?

First Advantage

AUGUST 12, 2015

The consumer point of view is a unique perspective often overlooked in the background screening and human capital management industries. We know that in a global economy business decisions are made often based on some level of trust. And to gauge that level of confidence, many businesses rely on background screening to provide some intelligence that helps to build a trust foundation.

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TalentCircles

AUGUST 12, 2015

By Jessica Miller-Merrell Many recruiters are using marketing techniques and tactics in their jobs, and as I talked about in a previous post , we can use inbound marketing just as much as traditional marketing. In fact, I’ve always thought it was an incredibly valuable tool for our industry since it’s typically cheaper and less time consuming than many traditional marketing tactics.

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How to Smoothly Fire and Lay Off Employees

Justworks

AUGUST 12, 2015

You know you have to lay off an employee, and you dread doing it. Firing people because they did something wrong, or simply laying them o ff because of what is happening within your business, involves sensitive emotions. Fortunately, there are some things you can do to mitigate the discomfort of letting employees go. Apply the following tips as you prepare to let someone go, as you inform your employee that his job has been terminated, and as you deal with the aftermath of the event. We've also built a more in-depth guide on how to fire an employee. Prepare for the discussion.

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Why Online Onboarding Is Better For Your Employees

TalentCulture

AUGUST 12, 2015

Let’s assume it is Monday morning where you work. Is it fairly safe to assume that you have a group of new employees sitting in a classroom being oriented to your organization?  Is your organization still running classroom-based orientation sessions? I’m not saying you should immediately abandon all classroom-based orientation sessions. That session may be weeks from their start date.

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Halogen Talent Managment

AUGUST 12, 2015

Quite often, leaders know what to do to improve, but they don’t it! That’s what HR thought leader David Ulrich discovered during research for his new book, “Leadership Sustainability: Seven Disciplines.” We sat down with David to discuss what makes an effective leadership and how organisations can build sustainable leadership to turn good intentions into effective action

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Employees at the front lines often have better ideas for innovation than others within the business, but when they walk out the door, they take those ideas with them. Want to innovate better and faster than the competition? You need to hold onto your best employees and the ideas they have. In this session we will explore how various pieces of the talent life cycle are related to retention and examine more than 20 strategies and ideas for improving retention outcomes for your business.

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Compensation Today

AUGUST 12, 2015

Tess C. Taylor, PHR, SHRM-CP, PayScale Senior Blogger The term employee engagement gets thrown around pretty loosely today, but what does this concept really mean? With 63 percent of employers concerned about employee retention, employee engagement goes a lot deeper than just smiling happy employees at the office. It’s about how employers are jumping through hoops to keep their workers plugged in.

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Improving The Workplace Culture In Your Value Stream

TalentCulture

AUGUST 12, 2015

We talk a lot about improving workplace culture. But it isn’t just the culture that influences your business and the outcomes for your customers. Every business in your value stream has its own culture, as does the value stream itself, the ways that those organizations interact up and down the value chain. The same thing applies when working in partnerships across organizations. Image: bigstock.

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3 Ways to Make Exit Interviews More Effective

Cornerstone On Demand

AUGUST 12, 2015

Exit interviews are a double-edged sword: Your company desperately wants information from departing employees about how to improve, but employees have little motivation to provide complete, honest reasons for their departure. " Jerk managers are jerks about lots of things — and they don't take negative feedback well. The short answer is yes. Cover Your Bases With the Basics.

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OmegaHR Solutions

AUGUST 12, 2015

Three excellent reads. have an admission to make. enjoy reading what lawyers write. Not all of them, but three lawyers in particular. They make this “lawyer stuff” interesting. read many more than these three, but they in particular make it fun. have selected two posts from each lawyer that I think present information that everyone in HR and anyone that owns a small business should read. Eric B.

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Can you hear the collective groan when you launch that new compliance course? Do you get complaints both public and private from trainees about the uselessness of the training courses you've launched? Is there anything that can be done about it?

Ceridian

AUGUST 12, 2015

By Jayson Saba,VP of Strategy and Industry Relations at Ceridian. Businesses today are moving in droves toward a new way of approaching human capital management. The old method of gathering employee data and stashing it in filing cabinets is long forgotten – we now have fast-paced, high-powered methods of storing and sharing data remotely, thanks […]. Uncategorized cloud computing HCM HR HR technology human capital management human resources big data implemenation jayson saba Leadership workforce

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5 signs your job architecture could be due for a rebuild (and why you might want to)

HR Times

AUGUST 12, 2015

Posted by Gregory Stoskopf. and Lynda Phenix on August 12, 2015. It’s not uncommon for the underlying infrastructure of an organization’s jobs—what we call job architecture; also referred to as job structure, catalogue, or leveling—to become outdated and weak. Growth is a common culprit, particularly through M&A activity. Related links. Follow us @DeloitteTalent. Stay Connected.

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HRWatchdog

AUGUST 12, 2015

Proposed federal overtime rule would increase the salary threshold. The Department of Labor’s proposed federal overtime rule  comment period opened last month and more than 1650 comments have already been submitted.  The deadline for written comments is September 4, 2015. In part, the Department of Labor (DOL) proposes to update the baseline salary level for overtime exemptions. Comments. 20210.

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TLNT: The Business of HR

AUGUST 12, 2015

If you’ve ever had an employee lose their home to foreclosure, if you’ve ever had an employee lose everything in a fire, if you’ve ever had an employee deal with the costs of catastrophic medical bills, then you know that personal financial pressures are not good for your workplace. The personal financial pressures beating down on one employee impact the whole work group.

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The HR Capitalist

AUGUST 12, 2015

Let's face it - Fearful of the spotlight and conservative to a fault, HR pros generally aren't the best examples to look towards when it comes to professional branding. Kris Dunn ( Kinetix RPO , The HR Capitalist ) and Tim Sackett ( HRU Technical Resources , TimSackett.com ) think that needs to change. They found out well-branded HR pros who are actual practitioners are hard to find.  .

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Build a Foundation for Trust

Great Place to Work

AUGUST 12, 2015

Defining, Adopting, and Reinforcing Your Organization’s Core Values Core values are critically important to creating a great workplace. They act as the baseline contract between all members of the organization: leaders and employees alike. They serve as the shared commitment each employee makes to one another about how they will behave and make decisions, so leader and employee behaviors become predictable. This is the essence of trust. When leaders are committed to modeling the core values and their actions become predictable, fear within an organization disappears. Blogs

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 12, 2015

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Overweight employee keeps breaking office chairs. We have an obese employee who has broken several office chairs. We purchased two new ones just for her with a higher weight ability. She again broke the base of one of them. As a result, she has used other chairs in the office and broken them. I am getting ready to purchase more chairs and another one that goes up to 400 pounds for her. Is there anything that we can legally say to her? I’m not sure how to go about it, but this is getting close to $1,000 in chairs in the last year.

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Jelf

AUGUST 12, 2015

Today is International Youth Day. International Youth Day is a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation). The post International Youth Day: show your young employees they matter appeared first on. Education Employee Benefits Employee Engagement Financial Education young workers

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Today’s workplace is characterized by chaotic forces—low employee engagement and productivity levels, and declining employee well being. HR Leaders have a critical role in defining the vision and strategy to transform and create a more productive and happy workplace.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

The classification of 1099 contractors and W-2 employees has emerged as one of the biggest storylines within the booming freelance economy. According to the ADP Research Institute , more than one-third of midsize businesses have been fined or penalized for not complying with laws pertaining to how they manage their workforces. Fines levied by the U.S. Wage law violations. Tax trouble.

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HR Daily Advisor

AUGUST 12, 2015

Amazon.com, Inc.® founder and CEO Jeff Bezos put it best: “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.” BLR’s Employment Branding Survey conducted in June 2015 sought to learn what organizations are doing with internal and external branding. 70.8% of respondents with an internal branding initiative declared that boosting employee morale was a goal of the program. mere 8.9%

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SAP Innovation

AUGUST 12, 2015

I’m not a trained neuroscientist, but some of the conclusions about employee performance ratings based on so-called scientific studies seem dangerously misleading. This is the second in a series of blogs offering another perspective on performance management trends and challenges. Fact: “Brain science” can be misleading. You can’t just read the headline.”. Fact: Ratings have an upside.

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