UpstartHR

MAY 26, 2015

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the Alabama SHRM Conference. It was a great experience, and I love taking notes from other speakers throughout the day as well. My friend Dawn Burke from Daxko was speaking about stress on our employees and most notably on the HR staff. have always thought that was somewhat silly, but hearing Dawn talk about it validated my thinking somewhat.

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ATD Human Capital

MAY 26, 2015

There is no single best design, but all organizations will realize the value of performance management if they 1) define the objectives they are trying to achieve and 2) focus squarely on the performance management practices and, especially, the behaviors that matter most in driving improved performance. Click here to read full version

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The People Equation

MAY 26, 2015

Do employees really enjoy working in a self-organized structure? Holacracy —sometimes touted as a “leaderless” environment—eliminates traditional management titles and functions. The degree to which employees enjoy this organizational structure depend on many factors. Some people take well to this extreme level of self-organization, others don’t. What type of employee is a good fit for Holacracy?

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Spark Hire

MAY 26, 2015

Cultural fit is a hot topic when it comes to interviewing today’s candidates.  If you are unsure of how to know if a candidate fits in with your company culture , rest assured you are not alone.  However, there are 4 simple questions that can help you get to the bottom of a candidate’s cultural preference when it comes to work environment. 1. What is your ideal work environment?

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TLNT: The Business of HR

MAY 26, 2015

FREE TLNT WEBINAR :  Wednesday, May 27 at 2 pm Eastern/11 am Pacific. CEOs and other executives are increasingly demanding more from HR as they realize the tremendous impact it can have on business success. As HR leaders, it’s no longer enough to declare ourselves strategic partners, we’re having to prove that strategic impact with dollars and data. This webinar will fill up fast.

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Robin Schooling

MAY 26, 2015

If you work in human resources what follows is a pretty common exchange. Random Guy You Just Met: “What do you do?”. You: “I work in human resources.”. RGYJM: “Oh. So you hire and fire.”. Right? Am I right? If I had a nickel… well, you know the rest. So how do you respond to RGYJM? surely hope you don’t answer “Yup. Never once did a RGIJM say “Oh! Not once. You hire and fire.”. Oh mom.

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William Tincup: 7 Steps to Define Your Personal Brand

Cornerstone On Demand

MAY 26, 2015

HR leaders spend a lot of time thinking about how to support and enrich other people's careers. But it's also important to turn the lens on ourselves, making sure we're fully present and fulfilled at work. To wit, we asked William Tincup, principal analyst at Key Interval Research , for his advice on polishing up your personal brand: Would you hire yourself? Don't answer just yet.

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Culture University

MAY 26, 2015

Distrust is the new normal. There has been a dramatic decline over at least the past 15 years in almost every sector of our society—distrust of the police, government, financial institutions, ethnic groups, and even each other. Distrust” is the headline every night on the news. Trust vs. Fear as a performance driver In the […]. Faculty Culture Leadership Trust

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Something Different

MAY 26, 2015

<blog.skodaminotti.com> …So this morning I came across an interesting piece from Dan Alexander on Forbes. It’s a great look into some of Google’s hiring and talent management practices, and you can read it here. Most HR managers try to keep salaries within a limited range for any given position. And no one looks at that and says it’s unfair. Best, Rory.

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Workforce Software

MAY 26, 2015

As far as usability concepts go, gamification is a media darling. Pundits are fans and vendors are scrambling to incorporate gamification elements in new product releases. Yet, for all the fanfare, gamification isn’t always a perfect fit in HR software. Why not? While gamification can solve some important problems related to software adoption, not all. Workforce Management

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HR Bartender

MAY 26, 2015

I’ve noticed a few themes emerging in the professional development space that center around the need for individuals to find ways to decompress, de-stress, and detox from their digital lives. One of the ideas I heard was adult coloring books. Now before you laugh, check out these articles on CNN , Huffington Post , the NY Post and the LA Times about the popularity of adult coloring. Why not color?

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Paychex

MAY 26, 2015

It’s important for those in service industries, such as restaurants, hair salons, and hotels, to understand the difference between tips and services charges. The two types of gratuities present employers with a number of payroll challenges, including wage calculation, employee reporting, and tax requirements

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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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Symbolist

MAY 26, 2015

I am a fan of incentives. I’ve on record defending them when the book Drive came out 8 years ago and basically tried to shunt them into the dust bin of management and motivation ideas. But they shouldn’t be ignored. Incentives are great when seeking to break behavioral inertia. Incentives are very powerful. And they are very blunt. Great care should be used when designing incentive programs.

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TLNT: The Business of HR

MAY 26, 2015

Second of two parts. As I told you here yesterday (see Few Recruiting Tools Work Better Than a “‘Buddy Hire” Program ),  the buddy hire approach is where you offer to hire your target star candidate and a close colleague or friend of theirs as a package deal. But, buddy hire programs work best if they are designed to avoid the naturally occurring problems associated with hiring any friend.

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Entelo

MAY 26, 2015

"A positive self starter who needs minimum oversight.". Proactive and demonstrates sound judgment in managing multiple tasks and requests ". Growth potential.". The above are to job descriptions as "excellent communication skills" are to resumes. They're essentially space fillers, claims based on having nothing else to say, and they don't actually add anything of real evaluative utility.

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Dice

MAY 26, 2015

The sharing economy is growing at breakneck speed. Sometimes it seems that, if there’s a service desired by a reasonable amount of people, a startup with a mobile app and an army of crowd-sourced freelancers is already rushing to fulfill it. But as Uber, Lyft, Airbnb and their ilk all grew in prominence (and revenue), governments and activist groups began to take note.

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TLNT: The Business of HR

MAY 26, 2015

By Eric B. Meyer. Here are 100,000 reasons to take all forms of discrimination seriously. And, And, that includes discrimination against men. Remember my January post about the EEOC suing Ruby Tuesday, alleging that the restaurant chain discriminated against male employees for temporary assignments? Well, that case just settled for $100K! But, wait! There’s more… (more…). Legal Issues EEOC harassment HR communications HR management HR News HR trends Legal workplace discrimination

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HRWatchdog

MAY 26, 2015

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) has been working for some time on updates to Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) forms. On several occasions, DOL extended the expiration dates on the forms while the updates were pending. Now, the DOL has completed the updates to the forms, and the forms bear a new expiration date of May 31, 2018. The DOL updates were relatively minor but highlighted information relating to the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). Some of the DOL forms did not contain any revisions to the text, but merely received a new expiration date. Not a member?

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Making Competency Models Stick with Proven Results

DDI's Talent Management Intelligence

MAY 26, 2015

The days of HR-driven models are gone and have been replaced with business-driven models that support overall organizational strategies

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Is Your Communication Style A Drag On Your Team’s Productivity?

TalentCulture

MAY 26, 2015

Our verbal and listening habits have a direct effect on our productivity and our professional outcomes. These engagement habits can lead to wasteful debates over false choices and choke off relevant business facts. When ideas and facts flow easily and teams engage in authentic business-driven discussions, productivity and results soar. Start with YES to encourage information flow.

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Robin Schooling

MAY 26, 2015

Finding – and more importantly – having conversations with tech talent is an ongoing challenge isn’t it? If you’re looking for an Application Developer with Agile or JavaFX experience (by tomorrow!) it can be tempting to rush in and contact any and all hot prospects in an attempt to get some sort of activity going. So what to do? Fortunately Dice has just published a fantastic resource.

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TLNT: The Business of HR

MAY 26, 2015

It’s probable you have a list of (or at least know) the reasons why your customers buy from you. It’s also probable you don’t have the same sort of list of why anyone should want to work for you. Problem is, if you don’t know why anyone should want to work for you, how could potential applicants possibly know? more…).

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True Faith HR

MAY 26, 2015

There are good times to be a Michigan State Spartans fan. In fact, if you were a member of the MSU Class of 2015, you've known nothing but success. Michigan State is the first school in NCAA history to win four consecutive bowl games and reach the Sweet 16 in basketball for four consecutive years. So, what has that meant to the Spartan brand? were MSU's only commitments at that point.

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Paychex

MAY 26, 2015

Savvy businesses are looking to their benefits packages as a way to attract and retain the best employees in the marketplace. Read on for tips for leveraging benefits in your recruitment and retention efforts

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Newmeasures

MAY 26, 2015

With the school year coming to a close, I have been reflecting on the past year and how my kids have grown. This year marked the milestone of sending my oldest to public school and with that came the anxiety of putting my kindergartener on a bus. This would be the first time I didn’t directly hand my five year old over to the person who would be caring for her.

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Evil HR Lady

MAY 26, 2015

When you walk into what you think is a normal meeting with your boss and are surprised with a pink slip, it’s devastating. Even if you absolutely, positively hated your job, when your boss yanks it out from under your feet, it hurts and you can’t think straight. You should, however, ask a series of questions even if your brain can’t handle that task right now. But, you can always call or arrange a meeting later to ask questions. Your employer will generally provide a stack of paperwork that you can go through on your own, so you may not need to ask some of these questions.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 26, 2015

Asking the salary history of job applicants may become a banned question but employers could be required to publish hiring rates and stick to them.  This innovative intended regulatory intervention in recruiting practices is a pay equity initiative by (of course) California.   AB 1017 (Campos), the pay equity law proposed in February 2015, would ban employment advertising that demands salary history from job applicants; and it would require the minimum applicable hiring rate to be both published and paid or exceeded.  At first, I didn’t dream this idea would survive for long. 

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