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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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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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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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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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6 Strategies to Navigate Social Determinants of Health for a Better Workplace

In today’s dynamic work landscape, where the lines between personal and professional life blur, understanding the intricate interplay between social determinants of health (SDoH) and emotional wellbeing is paramount. Employers must acknowledge that the whole person comes to work and every aspect of a person’s personal and professional life, especially their mental health, comes with them.

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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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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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Everything You Need to Know About Pulse Surveys

Bonusly

Surveys, surveys, everywhere! As consumers, we're constantly asked to take surveys. Prompts for surveys line the bottom of most receipts and come at the end of almost every customer service call. At work, on the other hand, we're rarely prompted to share our opinions. ??. "Most organizations (74%) will still use formal, large-scale surveys to gauge how employees feel about their jobs and workplace." – Gartner.

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The Massive Costs of a Bad Hire

6Q

Many managers would rather hire a mediocre job candidate than leave a vacant position open but it turns out that a bad hire is usually far more harmful than letting the vacancy remain until you can find a great hire. When a manager is responsible for a bad hire, they often find it hard to recognise, let alone accept, because they feel the employee is a reflection of their discernment and capability as a manager.

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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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Here Are the HR Trends to Watch in 2024 + Plus Advice for Driving Impact!

The pressure is on to create a positive onboarding experience. Plus, a sub-par onboarding process can domino into other concerns such as low performance, burnout (for you and new hires), and retention challenges. Our 2024 State of HR report will give you a realistic picture of the HR landscape and tips to onboarding effectively in the year to come.

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Many Recruiters Are on a Path to Burnout

SHRM Resources

Recruiting isn’t for everyone. The profession can be exciting and impactful—recruiters change people’s lives and can demonstrably advance an organization with key hires—but the day-to-day grind can also lead to incapacitating stress and burnout.

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Employee Engagement Happens in Moments

Jason Lauritsen

Something really weird and awesome happened to me this morning. Knowing I had a busy day of calls and meetings today, I decided to sneak into the gym for a quick run on the treadmill before the day spun away from me. Before I share what happened next, a bit of context: Despite being a natural extrovert and preaching the importance of relationships everywhere in our lives, I am a standoffish loner at the gym.

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Step up your social sourcing and get set for 2020 now

Workable

Premium job boards are a good way of reaching qualified candidates. But they still only target active jobseekers. To stand a better chance of hiring the perfect fit, you need a richer talent pool. Which means casting your net wider to include passive candidates too. And where better to find both than on social platforms? Why social sourcing matters.

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Spotlight on Service Delivery- Kaloyan Kolarov

Immedis

#PeopleBehindPayroll. Current position? I’m a QA Automation Lead at Immedis based in our office in Varna. The job that launched my career in tech / dev ? I started as a manual QA a few years ago. During that time, I worked on various projects for one for the biggest UK based security companies operating in places like Heathrow and Google and a company which was responsible for managing the delivery of the goods to Wembley, Anfield and other stadiums around the world.

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Improving Access To & Utilization Of Cancer Screening With Color

Discover how Color's comprehensive care solution is revolutionizing cancer screening adherence and knowledge. Through an in-depth case study, Color's unique approach to comprehensive cancer care has shown significant benefits in increasing screening rates and enhancing patient knowledge. Participants reported a 2-3x increase in adherence to screening guidelines over just 8 weeks, with 84% of participants increasing their familiarity with timing and frequency of cancer screening.

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How To Balance Hype And Humility In Your Executive Job Search

Forbes Coaches Council

Ironically, I have found that those senior leaders who are at the tops of their industries and have accomplished the most struggle more frequently with putting pen to paper and telling their own career stories.

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New Employee Welcome Message Examples

HR Digest

What you choose as a welcome message for your new employee will leave a first and all-time impression. Therefore it is required to careful frame the new employee welcome message which showcases a blend of professional attitude and warm welcome both to the new employee. These messages also help the new employees to have an effective boarding and comfortable settlement on their respective job positions.

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Step up your social sourcing and get set for 2020 now

Workable

Premium job boards are a good way of reaching qualified candidates. But they still only target active jobseekers. To stand a better chance of hiring the perfect fit, you need a richer talent pool. Which means casting your net wider to include passive candidates too. And where better to find both than on social platforms? Why social sourcing matters.

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The Age of the Super-Recruiter

TalentCulture

An Interview with Sanjoe Jose, CEO and Cofounder of Talview The challenges we face in terms of hiring span from finding the right talent to finding the technology that makes it possible. And we’ve seen an incredibly fast-paced phase of innovation in the field. At the forefront are leaders like Sanjoe Tom Jose, cofounder and CEO of Talview. Sanjoe is passionate about making hiring easier with cutting-edge AI and machine learning-based technologies.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Yes, if you get fired (or not hired) for holding a PA medical marijuana card, you can sue.

The Employer Handbook

Image by CMElixirs from Pixabay. With a big ‘ol tip of the cap to Phil Miles, Esq. over at Lawffice Space ( here ) and Daniel Cummins at Tort Talk ( here ), we’ve got some news that should interest Pennsylvania employers. For the first time, a state or federal court in Pennsylvania has decided ( here ) whether an individual can sue an employer that denies her employment because she has a medical marijuana card.

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Reviving Our Workplaces with Compassion

Bonusly

Many of today’s organizations have become transactional and dehumanized. The professionals that I work with increasingly tell me that they feel their employer treats them more like a human resource than a human being, and we have become so reliant on technology as a means of communication that opportunities to connect and care for one another at a basic human level are decreasing.

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The Top 5 Enterprise Talent Management Solutions, According to Users

TrustRadius HR

“Talent management” is a vague, messy set of HR processes that most enterprises can’t live without. Having the right software to manage the process can be the difference between making the most of the talent you have and leaving value untapped. . Many enterprises would likely benefit from a more comprehensive suite of HR and talent management functions that comes as a unified suite.

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Eliminating The Stigma Around Mental Health In The Workplace

Forbes Coaches Council

Such stigma is often based on wrong and distorted information and negative attitudes, and it often results in workplace discrimination and a lack of needed support.

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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Assessment Tools to Help You Find a Direction

GetFive

According to some studies, up to 85 percent of all American workers are unhappy in their jobs and feel they could be happier elsewhere. But where? They rarely know. After going through an evaluation or assessment process, however, many decide their present situation is not so bad after all. They realize they don’t need a major change, just a few tweaks here and there.

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November Job Growth Soundly Beats Expectations

SHRM Resources

U.S. employers added 266,000 new jobs in November, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report, reflecting solid job gains. Unemployment ticked down to 3.5 percent, a 50-year low.

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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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12 Actionable Tips For Starting Your Own Podcast

Forbes Coaches Council

Whether you're starting a podcast for your business or your business is your podcast, the leaders of Forbes Coaches Council share advice that will help ensure your long-term success.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.