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Cafe Classic: The Future of Advancement – Move Out to Move Up?

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: As the year winds up, a time to take stock in many ways, we revisit Chris Dobyn's Classic post examining career advancement and how it may be changing. The holidays are a prime time for catching up with old friends, and this year was no exception. Friends’ accounts of past year activities often include information about their children and their evolving careers.

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How to Improve Employee Collaboration | Reward Gateway

Reward Gateway

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The ethics of workplace gift giving

Insperity

As the end-of-year holiday gift-giving season approaches, you may start to stress about buying gifts for colleagues. Workplace gift giving can be tricky. You may wonder what to buy, who should receive a gift and how to go about the process of giving presents at work. Thankfully, the etiquette is less complicated than one might think. Below are the do’s and don’ts of giving gifts at work.

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WHEN THE BOSS BULLIES THE TEAM: METH, I'M ON IT.

The HR Capitalist

By now, most of you have seen the anti-drug campaign coming out of South Dakota with ads that show regular people with one of two tag lines: "Meth, I'm On It". "Meth, We're On It". There's a lot of layers to the visual campaign, including: 1--South Dakota, like many states, has a huge Meth problem. 2--The ads show regular people. The assumption is that by being on "it", the people show are either using Meth and you don't know it, or the people shown are mobilizing to fight the epidemic.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Virtual Leaders Should Worry Less About Connectivity and More About Connections

Julie Winkle Giulioni

Virtual teams — once a novelty — have now become the norm. Last year, 43% of American employees reported working at least some time remotely. Remote work makes good business sense. Removing geographical constraints allows businesses to source the best available talent. That talent is frequently more focused, engaged and productive than their co-located colleagues.

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Employee Retention and Turnover Solutions

Bonusly

To solve employee turnover, we look at employee retention best practices and organization-specific strategies. Current best practice is to improve the employee experience in order to increase employee engagement and retention—and all the other great things that come with them, like improved business performance. The CMO of People maps the employee experience from the employee’s perspective instead of HR’s perspective.

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How to Increase Employee Happiness at Work?

TalentLyft

Employee happiness is a huge deal for a company. Employee happiness is the key to attracting and retaining your employees. Discover 8 effective ways to increase employee happiness at work. Read More.

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Writing Effective Job Descriptions: 6 Tips to Make Them Great

HRSG

Looking for tips on how to write a good job description? Here are 6 insights on writing effective job descriptions to help you improve your HR processes.

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How to Have a Holiday Party that Keeps HR Happy

Justworks

The holiday party is one of the great corporate American traditions. It’s the time when we start reflecting back on the successes and pain points of the year, and work might slow to a brief but much-needed lull. There are few better opportunities to reward your team and bring departments together for a festive celebration. While the holiday season is known for merriment and cheer, HR professionals across the country steel themselves in preparation for an inevitable uptick in employee.

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.

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How to Make Headway on Pay Transparency

Compensation Cafe

Have you measured your progress on pay transparency? It's definitely time to check. Even though every organization is starting from a different place, you should have kicked off your journey towards pay transparency by now. What is pay transparency anyway, and how do I know when I get there? What I'm talking about is giving employees enough information to understand how compensation decisions are made in your culture.

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How To Give Thoughtful Employee Gifts This Holiday Season

15Five

One of the more anxiety-inducing activities around the holiday season is trying to determine if you should give a gift to those with whom you work—colleagues, supervisors, managers, and those who report to you. If you do decide that you want to give an employee gift, the practical issue becomes: “What should I give them?” . While some may think giving employees’ gifts isn’t valued in the workplace, many find these small tokens of appreciation go a long way.

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12 Attributes to Evaluate Your Organization Culture

DecisionWise

An organization’s culture consists of the values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that employees share and use on a daily basis in their work. The organization culture determines how employees describe where they work, how they understand the business, and how they see themselves as part of the organization. Culture is also a driver of decisions, actions, and ultimately the overall performance of the organization.

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Weighing the impact of the attractiveness advantage

HRExecutive

Physically attractive people have long been viewed as more sociable, happier and successful than their less attractive counterparts. This stereotype has been documented as far back as the early 1970s in psychology journals and academic studies that showed a clear bias toward more attractive individuals in teacher assessments of students, voter preferences for political candidates and jury judgements in simulated trials, according to Comila Shahani-Denning, professor of psychology and director of

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Protect Your Business: Tackle the Future of I-9 Fraud with Expert Strategies

Speaker: Speakers

Is your business ready for the future of document fraud? AI advancements have made forgery easier, increasing risks for employers. With 85% of identity fraud last year linked to impersonation, proactive compliance is essential. Join WorkBright’s webinar on October 8 to equip yourself with crucial insights for protecting your business from fraudulent I-9 documents, including: Understanding Risks: Learn about new fraud tactics impacting your business.

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Managing Costs through Workforce Planning

hrQ

Cost-cutting is a reality of organization life. Whether caused by the economy, industry dynamics, or company actions, it is something that almost all organizations face at some point. Recent concerns about a recession have brought this topic back to the forefront for many. Too often, cost-cutting decisions are still made in very qualitative or across-the-board ways that have a long-term detrimental impact on the organization.

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10 Ways to Enhance Your Leadership Skills for 2020

Achievers

Leaders at all levels often struggle to balance their many responsibilities. Constant demands on time, along with an expectation to be constantly connected can leave a leader feeling overwhelmed and burned out. This leads to issues with morale and performance. As 2019 comes to an end, this is the time to reflect on ways to improve for the year ahead.

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Podcast: How to Create a Positive Work Environment

DecisionWise

In this podcast episode, DecisionWise Sr. Consultant and Executive Coach, Dan Deka, discusses the topic of how to create a positive work environment. In a business setting, to create a positive experience for your customers, it starts with creating a positive experience for your team, which starts in your head with the way you are thinking. When it comes down to it, you have much more power and influence than you realize.

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20 Best Books for HR Professionals

Kazoo

Readers are leaders, and leaders are readers. Here’s a list of 20 great reads that have the power to transform both you and your organization. 1. Investing in People. Author: Wayne Cascio and John Boudreau. Summary: Cascio and Boudreau’s “Investing in People” delivers useful advice for choosing HR investments that offer optimal strategic value — and avoiding those that don’t.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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4 Tips to Avoid Getting Sick at Work

Justworks

It’s an exciting time when the holiday season comes around. You get to look forward to holiday parties, savory meals, and some vacation time. You’re finishing up end-of-year projects and want to finish the year strong, so you want to make sure you are your best self at work. But the last thing you’d want is to end up sick during this time. With the weather changing and stress levels rising, this is the prime season for getting sick at work.

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Three predictions for HR in 2020

HR Zone

Culture Three predictions for HR in 2020.

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13 Employee Engagement Trends for 2020

Vantage Circle

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. -Charles Darwin. Darwin might not have quoted the above line with respect to business, but his words seem to echo in the business world, now more than ever. And managing people is no exception. Employee engagement is a very abstract concept. It is the “emotional connect” that an employee feels towards its organization.

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Top 20 HR Events in 2020

Kazoo

Get ready to stretch yourself, grow your professional network, and open your world to new possibilities. We say hindsight is 2020, but this coming year, look forward: With these conferences and professional events, it’s impossible to say what’s on your horizon. Events ordered by date. Look out for a next to an event name to see which ones Kazoo will be attending!

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HR’s Complete 2025 Calendar of Important Dates

HR leaders can use this calendar from Paycor to track important HR and payroll tax dates. The 2025 calendar includes: Tax filing dates Federal reporting deadlines Bank holidays Links to relevant tax forms …and more! Get your 2025 HR calendar today!

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How to make accountability a core part of your workplace culture

SoapBox

Accountability in the workplace means that all employees are responsible for their actions, behaviors, performance and decisions.

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Grieving at work: how to support employees after a bereavement

HR Zone

People How to support grieving employees at work.

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The HR Scorecard: A Full Guide

Analytics in HR

The HR scorecard, or Human Resource Scorecard, is a well-known HR tool. In this article, we will explain what the HR scorecard is, the difference between the HR scorecard and the balanced scorecard, modern-day critique, and show an example template of the HR scorecard. What is the HR scorecard? One of the key problems that HR has been facing in the past decades is the perception that HR doesn’t add to the company strategy.

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the best office holiday party date story of all time

Ask a Manager

Earlier today, I asked people to share their funniest office holiday stories. I love this one with all my heart and hereby present it to you: When I was fresh out of college, a dude in my social circle invited me to his fancy work Christmas party. He was a teacher, so I’d kind of assumed I was there as friend to act as a buffer between well-intentioned female colleagues who wanted to set him up with one another, with their daughters, etc.

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[Free Templates] Plant the Seed for Successful Onboarding!

Our Free Welcome Email Templates (designed for both in-office or virtual employees) are ready for you to customize and use to plant the seeds of success for new team members.

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WOH 69: Pricing Skills Versus Jobs with Labor Market Intelligence

UpstartHR

Today’s workplace is more flexible and fluid than ever before. In some cases, jobs are too broad, vague, and slow-moving to account for the speed of business. That’s why skills have become more important than ever before not just as a measurement of capability but as a source of data for hiring and compensation. In this interview with labor market intelligence expert Cary Sparrow, Ben and Cary talk about how skills are the new currency of the business and how to use this data as an e

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The HR Guide to Ensuring Employee Satisfaction

Hppy

Obtaining the best from your employees is about more than compensation and benefits. It’s also about creating workplaces that are safe, stimulating, and enjoyable. 79% of American workers say company culture is an essential factor in job satisfaction. Respect, trust, fairness, integrity, and teamwork are crucial attributes of healthy work cultures.

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Build an Engaging Employee Experience: 9 Key Insights

Kazoo

Build an Engaging Employee Experience: 9 Key Insights. How to Maximize Your Employees’ Ability & Willingness to Perform at Their Potential. We always talk about building an engaging employee experience environment where people can thrive with the right tools, resources and culture. Where does it start? What does it look like? Keynote speaker, author, employee engagement expert and workplace culture consultant Jason Lauritsen defines employee engagement as “the degree to which an employee is