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Are You Satisfied With Your Employee Scheduling System? Creating employee schedules that work will have a significant impact on your business. You are probably missing out if you still rely on pen and paper. You may be spending too much time and effort entering salaries and times. Here are a few reasons to get a […]
SHRM President and CEO Makes LinkedIn’s List of Top Voices Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) President and Chief Executive Officer Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, was named a 2022 Top Voice in Company Culture by LinkedIn. The Top Voices in Company Culture list highlights 10 thought leaders who focus on building great workplaces, developing […]
How Programmatic Ads Can Improve the Calibre of Job Candidates In HRchat episode 463, we focus on data-driven recruiting. Listen as we talk about programmatic job ads, how ‘stack creep’ is a product of HR analytics and process automation, and why many Talent Acquisition pros, searching for job candidates, still struggle to establish a common […]
5 Reasons You Need To Do an Employee Background Check As a business owner, you know that protecting your company is priority number one. So, when hiring a new employee, it’s important to do your due diligence and perform background checks on each one of them. It helps to ensure that the person you’re hiring […]
Improving SMB Learning And Development Efforts If your company has less than ten people, there’s a chance that you’re running a small company that has a meager training budget and not much time to spare for training. It’s normal for small businesses to struggle with finding the resources to develop the skills of their workers […]
4 Reasons Why CEOs Support Investing in Language Training Employees of a company with an international scope must interact daily with employees from different countries who do not speak the same language as theirs. Under these conditions, it is obvious that language training for business can help to improve communication, but should this training be […]
People strategies of the world’s most admired companies in a full-employment economy In the wake of ‘the great resignation’ and the equally dramatic post-pandemic re-organization of our ways of working, a number of organizations are caught in a tough talent crunch in 2022. The challenges of attracting and retaining talent have never been more real. […]
In 2022, hourly workers are finding themselves in very high demand. Staff shortages in a variety of sectors and turnover rates of 150% — an increase of 68% since 2017– mean businesses that once took their ability to attract and retain staff for granted are now encountering strong resistance to their favorite strategies. There were […]
Employee Misalignment: 7 Things to Look Out For and How to Fix Them Are you and your employees aligned over how to improve your workplace? Employees want to work in an organization where they feel safe to grow and thrive in their careers; meanwhile, HR leaders want to ensure employees have the tools and resources […]
“Just drop into my office and tell me what’s on your mind…” “If you need to report an issue or incident, call this number…” Organizations have relied on open-door policies and whistleblower hotlines for gathering feedback for a while. However, these methods are no longer proving effective — but were they ever really effective in […]