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Knowing Your Talent Ecosystem. New Innovations Helping To Streamline Your Strategic HR Functions
Zapoint and ArchPoint have teamed up helping customers manage and transform their human capital into a true competitive advantage. During this webcast you will hear from executives from both companies on how their joint approach is helping companies like yourself – quickly identify skill and competency gaps, build targeted employee development programs, guide more effective recruiting efforts, implement effective performance management, and establish a blueprint for an ongoing succession planning framework.
Second Half ’09 Dates Available to Participate in Applied Research Corporation’s Public Workshops
Program Trains Business Leaders to Effectively Engage Stakeholders in Challenging Economic Times
No Such Thing as Neutral: Leveraging Every Interaction to Maximize Motivation, Influence and Trust
In life and business “neutral” doesn’t exist. No matter what we do or say, we impact a person, a system or an outcome. This presentation will explore the ways you can move past assumptions of being neutral and unbiased to leverage your natural abilities to exponentially increase influence, motivation and the foundation for every relationship, trust.
Predicting Future Wellness: Improve Employee Health and Cost Savings
Companies today realize that a healthy workforce increases productivity, decreases absenteeism and medical expenses, and ultimately costs less to insure. Assessing employee health is the first step in any wellness program, but what type of assessment is best at identifying at-risk employees?
10 Steps Guaranteed to Streamline your Immigration Process and Increase ROI
This webcast takes you through 10 Best Practices that break with some traditions and myths surrounding immigration law and immigration legal services to enable HR to meet increasing ROI pressures. You will learn how to streamline your corporate immigration process and achieve significant increases in employee satisfaction while reducing the required time and cost investments.
Preparing for the Recovery: Having the Right Players on Board
Are you ready for the economic recovery? Workforces have been decimated as a result of the downturn. Think about your current organization: what is the size of your workforce today as compared to two years ago? As the recovery progresses, businesses will return to expansion mode. Companies who acquire and possess superior talent will outpace their competition. It is imperative to have the best players on your team in order to stimulate your business. Please join us, along with your industry expert peers, as we discuss how to identify gaps in your workforce and introduce plans to fill those gaps with an optimally productive and impactful team.
Senior Executive Recruitment Regains Stability - June 2009 AESC Member Outlook Report
Senior Positions in Management and Finance on the Rise as Top Executives are Hired to Lead Organisations Out of Recession
Building a Compensation Planning Business Case
Admittedly, building a business case for a complex process such as compensation planning isn’t easy. Defining and measuring what is currently done while finding industry standards against which to measure further adds to the challenge. In this Webcast, Workscape will examine these challenges and will share the steps to successfully defining accurate guidelines and streamlining the ROI process as well as the positive outcomes that are possible. Customer case studies will be presented during this Web event.
Target-Date Funds Require Better Benchmarking, Watson Wyatt Says
Poor Returns Highlight Need for Improved Communication and Understanding of Risk
Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Applying for a Manager Position
What more of a company perspective does a manager have to consider? Joan Lloyd shares her advice with an employee who is applying for a managerial role for the first time.
Computer Fraud Casebook: The Bytes that Bite - 600 Word Review
Computer Fraud Casebook presents 42 actual computer fraud case studies written by the certified fraud examiners who participated in the investigations. Following each case study, the authors present the lessons learned from their experiences as well as recommendations to prevent future instances of fraud. Find out more. Read this review.
Computer Fraud Casebook: The Bytes that Bite - 300 Word Review
Computer Fraud Casebook presents 42 actual computer fraud case studies written by the certified fraud examiners who participated in the investigations. Following each case study, the authors present the lessons learned from their experiences as well as recommendations to prevent future instances of fraud. Find out more. Read this review.
Computer Fraud Casebook: The Bytes that Bite - Summary
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Computer Fraud Casebook: The Bytes that Bite
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Interview with Dennis Fisher, Director of Human Resources at Baptist Memorial Hospital
Interview with Dennis Fisher who is the Director of Human Resources at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
PHRI Certification Exam Preparation Course offered at IHRIM Global Forum
Register for both to Receive $100 Savings
Analytics Matter: Recruiting the Frontline Workforce
Analytics is becoming an important topic for HR. This webcast looks at how companies use analytics to hire a better front line workforce. Even in a recession industries such as retail, long-term care, hospitality and dining hire thousands of people -- analytics that lead to better hiring can have a big impact on workforce performance and hence profitability. If you have a large frontline workforce this webinar will provide insights on how to use analytics to reduce turnover and improve performance. HR professionals will learn how analytics can add more value to the recruiting function and to the organization as a whole.
Be a Hero in your company! Show how Talent Management, Happiness and the bottom line go together!
Studies have proven that happy employees are more productive and will positively affect the bottom line. What can you do as far as Learning and Talent Management to fully engage your employees?
CompareHRIS.com Plans to Make HR Software Selection Fun
Yes, you read that correctly. Over the next six months, CompareHRIS.com will be holding a number of cash prize contests to reward their site's visitors.
Diana Kerekes: Her Unique Business Model is Changing the Financial and Career Paths of Individuals
Individuals are Being Guided to New Areas of Success in their Lives via a Creative New Jersey Entrepreneur
Computershare clients sweep top honours at Global Equity Organization Awards
Computershare (ASX:CPU) is delighted to announce that two of its clients were awarded prestigious accolades at the 2009 Global Equity Organization Awards in Paris yesterday. Shell and Logica both walked away with top awards for outstanding share plans.
Global RPO results and how KellyOCG is responding to meet clients needs
Building on the success of the inaugural 2008 report, this year’s survey analyzes the key global trends in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO). The survey sample includes more than 600 respondents from across the globe. Listen as we share highlights form this years global RPO report, discuss key differentiators within a successful RPO and talk more about the success of a global RPO program.
HRMStrategies 2009 Conference and Technology Exposition
Two hot topics reverberated the International Association for Human Resource Information Management’s HRMStrategies 2009 Conference and Technology Exposition: knowing which HR technology vendors are viable in today’s economy and how to better interpret HR metrics so they may be used in strategic and actionable business decisions.
"Why Won't Rosie Drive More Rivets?"
Ascent Management Consulting's White Paper Answers Employee Motivation Question
By the Numbers: 2nd Annual Benefits Trends Report Summary
To say that 2009 is something of a roller-coaster year for business is a bit of an understatement. As an HR professional, you’re playing a more strategic role than ever in helping the organization to reduce costs, improve processes and drive employee engagement… especially in the area of employee benefits. Workscape has once again teamed-up with Workforce Magazine to conduct its 2nd Annual Employee Benefits Trends report and we would like you to join us for an exclusive webcast. During this hour-long interactive discussion, you’ll have an opportunity to review the results and learn how over 700 of your peers are responding to today’s most challenging benefits-related issues.
Confronting Prejudicial Comments in the Workplace
When prejudicial comments slide into the workplace, how do you react? The Stress Doctor is in, Mark Gorkin shares his advice.
Selecting Frontline Leaders: Identifying and predicting leadership potential in frontline managers
In good times and bad, frontline leaders – those who supervise entry-level employees – have a major impact on your business. Given the scope of their duties and the stakes associated with frontline leader effectiveness, it is tough to exaggerate the importance of being able to reliably, accurately identify frontline leadership potential. If managers (and HR professionals for that matter) could be equipped to assess characteristics important for leadership success on the front lines, what would those qualities be? This informative webinar will provide you with tips for identifying entry level employees with frontline leadership potential, and characteristics to look for when assessing current frontline leaders.
How State of Montana Improved Services, Reduced Costs by Creating an Effective Employee Portal
In this webcast we’ll discuss the latest trends in on-demand HR communications and portal technology and how the State of Montana created a technology platform attaining the efficiencies of a call center but within a self-service model.
Increasing Critical Thinking in the Workplace: The Raw Material of 21st Century Success
How to Identify and Develop Employees Who Think Effectively and Efficiently
This session outlines how to systematically build critical thinking skills in an organization through selection, leadership development, high potential, and succession programs. Emphasis is placed on how to effectively measure critical thinking skills and increase capabilities.
Social Media & Web 2.0: Where do we go from here? Part II
Web 2.0 and social media have experienced explosive growth in the past eighteen months. As newspapers are succumbing to the economy, companies are seeking knowledge and direction on how to initiate an interactive strategy incorporating Web 2.0 technologies and creating a platform of candidate and employee engagement.
How to Choose the Best eLearning Vendor
With the uncertain economic environment, many organizations are challenged by having to align shrinking budgets with their training and development needs. While professional development remains an essential part of organizational health, it can be costly, too. Despite the economic crisis, or perhaps because of it, chief learning officers are looking for a better cost-savings approach to learning. The virtual classroom and other e-learning opportunities provide just the solution.
Enwisen Makes JMP Securities 'Hot 100' List of Best Privately Held Software Companies
Enwisen, Inc., the leading vendor of SaaS-based software that helps employers improve the delivery of HR services while reducing the costs, has been named to “The Hot 100 – The Best Privately Held Software Companies” published annually by JMP Securities. This software industry overview, released on May 4, 2009, cited Enwisen’s industry-leading solutions that enable employers and outsourcers to deliver vital HR communications and services to employees and dependents 24x7 via the web.
The Quality Function is at a Critical Crossroads in Companies
Today’s quality professionals can be revenue generators and revenue protectors, according to a recent study by The Conference Board.
Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Who Will be Most Promotable After Recession?
How ready are you for the recession to end? Are you building your portfolio of skills and abilities so when hiring freezes are lifted, you are ready? Joan Lloyd shares her advice.
Onboarding Process & Practice
Presentation will provide information about the value of a comprehensive onboarding program and the correlation to recruitment and retention. Will include a case study from Cedars-Sinai Health System.
HR.com Launches Partnership Program with NEBS
HR.com and NEBS Canada today announced a partnership program that offers Canadian small- and medium-sized businesses comprehensive access to valuable human resources services usually only available to larger companies with a human resources department. The program also offers HR.com Canadian Premier Members discounts on NEBS products and services.
Six Steps to Communicating Workforce Analytics
The importance of effectively communicating workforce data (metrics, analytics, etc) is driven by three assumptions:
1. Business leaders possess finite blocks of time for reviewing workforce data
2. The workforce analytics process must include consideration of how the results are to be communicated
3. Data alone is not sufficient; HR must present a compelling story connects the audience to the issues, metrics, and next steps
As such, this webcast will outline tips, lessons learned, and case studies in delivering high-quality workforce analytics presentations.
Joan Lloyd’s HR Words of Advice: How to Decide on a Job You Love and an Unsolicited Opportunity
Joan Lloyd shares her advice with an employee being courted by the competitor.
Belén Bradley has joined Buck Consultants as a Director
Belén Bradley has joined Buck Consultants as a Director in the firm's Los Angeles office.
Idea Gives Hamilton Shirts a New Look
Idea Integration, the IT consulting and solutions unit of MPS Group, Inc. (NYSE:MPS), announced that its digital agency group, Idea Interactive, has redesigned the Hamilton Shirts retail consumer website, bringing its web presence up to date and making it more accessible to consumers.
Modis Named Preferred Vendor by State of New York
Modis, Inc., the information technology (IT) services business unit of MPS Group, Inc. (NYSE: MPS), announced that it has been chosen to provide IT consulting services as a preferred vendor to the State of New York / Office of the Attorney General (OAG).
Employee Free Choice Act: An Opportunity for Employers to Choose their Future
The proposed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) before Congress is making many employers feel threatened they could be bargaining with unions instead of dealing directly with their employees. Instead of focusing on whether the law is going to pass – which it will, in some form – you need to be paying attention to the real issue: How are you treating your employees every day? The fact is, union representation holds little attraction to employees who feel respected, valued, trusted, challenged, and recognized for their contributions. Based on these sample criteria, how would your employees rate their experience in your workplace?
Ten Ways to Create an Employee-centered Workplace
An employee-centered workplace is one in which all individuals, programs, processes, and systems are focused on helping employees become fully successful. Individuals who feel valued will provide excellent products and service, which will result in the achievement of organizational goals. In such an environment, everyone wins: workers, management, customers, vendors, and other stakeholders.
New Legislation & Its Impact on Your Selection Process - New Rules Under the Obama Administration
How is the HR hiring landscape changing under the Obama administration? Join us for this one-hour educational webcast outlining recent and proposed legislation and how it could impact hiring and selection processes. Josh Ulman, founder of Ulman Public Policy & Federal Relations, and Kevin Klinvex, bestselling author and Co-Founder of Select International will discuss the top labor/employment issues on the horizon in 2009 and what employers can do to ensure they are compliant.
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR IHRIMS GLOBAL FORUM
One-day Educational Event is July 16
HablaLibre Publishing Releases the First Point-and-Click System for Hispanics
Non English-speaking Hispanics now have the possibility to supplement their income by easily building a business online with a tool that speaks their own language.
Richard Owens: Job Seekers are Helping Him Create a 'Classical' Story via His Business Model
Victims of the Job Meltdown Market Meltdown Have a Real Friend in the State of California ...
Reducing Cost Without Reducing Headcount
Kay Mason shares how the HR department can make efficiencies but not at the expense of talent.
Keeping Up in a Down Economy: What the Best Companies do to get Results in Tough Times
Most employees today feel overworked and underappreciated. During tough and challenging times when we are asking them to do even more with less, they report feeling even more stressed and fearful than ever before. To keep them from becoming myopic and instead consistently focused on the guests and opportunities at hand, management needs to especially be proactive and positive in difficult times. Dr. Bob Nelson will discuss his research and experience as to how recognition can make a practical difference during tight and recessionary times—even with little time, resources or budget. This session will use current and practical examples of what today’s organizations are doing to keep employees focused and positive in ways that can help the organization to emerge stronger from difficult economic times.
A Brief Education on Education Verification
It is generally believed by those in our trade that while employment candidates may embellish their employment tasks and positions, they will downright lie about their education.
Pro-Labor Initiatives: Preparing for the Resurgence of Unionization
President Obama ran on an employee rights platform. The prevailing Democratic Party supports labor and the new administration is pushing the pro-labor agenda. As the labor initiative gains momentum under the Obama administration, employers must prepare for the possibility of sweeping change in workforce issues. Experts remind us, however, to remain calm but not complacent.1 We need to arm ourselves with information and create a contingency plan to ready our work environments for the existing and potential changes.
Real World Contractor Screening Strategies: Learn from Applied Materials Implementation Experience
Similar to your employees, contract workers and your contingent labor pool often have access to your customers and company assets but are they held to the same screening standards? Can you easily and accurately audit your vendors and partners? Just as performing background checks on your employees helps reduce risk to your company, screening contractors and contingent employees is equally important. This webinar explores the benefits of establishing a contractor screening program and ways in which this type of program can be administered effectively and cost-efficiently. Generate ideas for how this type of program would work in your organization when you hear from Applied Materials, Inc. how they successfully screen their extended workforce.
Re-think, Re-invent, and Re-ignite Your Workforce
In today’s buyers market for hiring what are the prevailing workforce trends in the restaurant industry. We will cover best practices to re-ignite your workforce, how to strengthen your existing team and the hiring practices that you should be implementing right now.
Understanding the Talent LifeCycle: Why employees join and stay in organizations
Learn why employees join and stay in organizations and what you can do to attract the very best and increase retention rates.
Joan Lloyd’s HR Words of Advice: Office Romance in the Making
Romance rumors circulating a workplace can be difficult to manage. How do managers approach the situation? Joan Lloyd shares her advice.
Are You Up-To-Date with the Latest Veteran Changes?
If your organization has contracts or subcontracts with the federal government, to maintain those contracts, your organization is required to keep up-to-date with the regulatory requirements for veterans. Annual reports are required to be filed to the Veterans Employment and Training Services (VETS) and you are required to proactively recruit qualified veterans for employment at your facilities.
Web 2.0 Initiatives Continue to Gain Acceptance at Companies, Watson Wyatt Survey Finds
Despite their relative newness, companies are embracing Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking tools, blogs and webcasts for internal communications and as part of their overall technology mix, according to a new survey by Watson Wyatt, a leading global consulting firm.
Make Your Attitude an Asset Think of Your Employees as an Investment
Through the prime cost-cutting and downsizing years of the late 80s and early 90s, corporate executives would draw a cynical reaction whenever they mouthed the words, people are our most important asset. Now, when they say it, we are more likely to believe they really mean it. Why? Because if they dont, their very survival is threatened.
How to Make Your Employment Brand Resonate Across Borders
For employers who recruit outside of their country of origin, cultural differences, customs and the significance and logistics of candidate relocation can get in the way of effective recruiting. This webcast will examine how a Canadian employer developed a brand to work in the U.K. and Australia while staying true to its roots.
World’s Premier HR Technology Conference Unveils 2009 Agenda
Chicago’s McCormick Place THE Place to Be in September for Latest Trends
AS RECOVERY BEGINS, PREPARE FOR THE WAVE OF EMPLOYMENT LAWS
History has shown that new employment laws and regulations typically follow periods of societal change or economic turbulence. Right now we’re experiencing both: between the new presidential administration and the economic recession, we can count on a flood of employment laws on the horizon.
CEO Financial Fortunes Drop Sharply, Watson Wyatt Proxy Analysis Finds
Economic Downturn Leads to More Than $13 Billion Decline for 80 CEOs Studied
Joan Lloyd’s HR Words of Advice: Job Hunters Send Questions on References, Age Discrimination
Joan Lloyd shares her advice with job hunters.
Surviving the Downturn: Considerations Before Trimming Your Workforce
Each day, it seems there is more bad news about corporate cutbacks, rising unemployment and an economy which seems to sink deeper and deeper into recession. The unemployment rate for December 2008 was 7.2%.1 Over 500,000 jobs were lost in December, and 1.4 million were lost over the last four months of 2008.2 Consensus is growing that efforts to reverse the economic slide will not work quickly, but instead a turnaround could take a year and probably longer. Is a Layoff the Right Choice? If your company is facing revenue shortfalls and/or a decline in business opportunities, cost reduction has probably become a significant goal. You may be considering a layoff of employees to bridge the gap and reduce costs. But is a layoff truly the best course of action? Alternative and possibly more effective techniques exist to cut costs, if management is flexible concerning its business strategy, or at least its personnel strategy. When contemplating a possible layoff, take a careful look at the potential costs and savings.
Are Your Hiring Practices Identifying Service Stars?
Two Best Practice Case Studies for Evaluating Service Talent. Competitors may try to duplicate your offerings…but they can’t duplicate your people. What can ultimately set you apart is the quality of your people and their interactions with your customers. In an environment where customer loyalty is critical to business survival, the emphasis that your organization places on hiring the right service-focused people is as critical as it has ever been. However, identifying the right candidates who possess the “service gene” can be a challenge – especially when the quantity (and not necessarily quality) of your applicant pool is rapidly growing. In this presentation we will highlight two case studies from the hospitality industry, and discuss how they have been able to identify the hospitality/service gene in potential applicants. We will use these case studies as a foundation to discuss best practices of selection processes for selecting hourly level as well as management level employees. We will discuss how to use your hiring practices as a competitive advantage by using a comprehensive hiring process and targeted assessments to help hiring managers determine which candidates have the natural talent and learned skills to provide excellence in service and hospitality.
Introduction to International Background Screening of Job Candidates
Employers have long recognized that conducting due diligence on new hires is a mission critical task. Firms cannot afford to be sidetracked by employee problems such as workplace violence, theft, false resumes, embezzlement, harassment or trumped-up injury claims. Employers can be the subject of lawsuits for negligent hiring if they hire someone that they should have known, through the exercise of due diligence, was dangerous, unfit or unqualified.
The Holy Grail: HR & Learning Executives Driving Sustainable Growth in the Future
The “Holy Grail” of business is profitable growth. More specifically businesses are striving for sustainable, profitable growth. Our experiences have taught us there are three primary drivers that have the greatest impact on sustainable growth: 1) Customers,2) Culture and 3) Leadership. This model puts HR in a key position, as strategist, business partner and thought leader.
What Works When Working with Recruiters
What Works When Working with Recruiters By Selena Dehne, JIST Publishing http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Article/MSN-1903-Job-Info-and-Trends-What-Works-When-Working-with-Recruiters/?sc_extcmp=JS_1903_home1&SiteId=cbmsnhp41903&ArticleID=1903>1=23000&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=9682fcdfaa76487188011c26c4071de6-296049011-JI-5
Hourly Recruiting Best Practices
In this webcast, the experts from SnagAJob.com focus on a subject near and dear to us – hourly hiring. We will focus on some of the methods we have seen, both traditional and non-traditional, to attract and retain top talent. Some of the things that we’ll cover include an overview of the hourly job workforce, keys to effective job descriptions and building your pipeline. We’ll show you how right now is the perfect time to upgrade your staff and build a stronger team. The speakers will help audience members who are new to hourly recruiting gain a fundamental understanding of best practices and suggest improvements for those with an existing strategy.
Warning! Values May Be Detrimental to Your Organization’s Health
What percent of your employees can identify your organization’s values? How many of those individuals can tell you what each value “looks like” in terms of their own performance? Unless you are able to answer nearly 100%, you may want to consider taking these steps to improve the health of your organization!
The ROI of Selection: Identifying Key Performance Factors that Drive Bottom Line Results
The ability to accurately predict future job performance has long been the “Holy Grail” in hiring. While traditional recruitment efforts have focused on work history and previously acquired skills, advances in selection science have identified personality factors that influence future job performance. This webinar will examine how pre-employment assessments can be designed to be job relevant and discuss the best practices that human resource managers can adopt to align selection tools with key performance metrics that matter most within their organization.
Assessing Sales Capability in a Competitive Economy
Increasing sales and building revenue in a competitive economy is one of the most difficult challenges currently facing organizations. A competitive market can bring out the true colors of your sales staff. Those employees who have the appropriate skills find ways to be successful no matter what the economic climate. This poses a unique challenge to HR practitioners who are seeking to determine exactly what makes certain sales people successful while others are struggling.
HROA Fetes Award Winners at Recent Gala; Winners Lauded for Taking Action in Challenging Times
Buyers and Sellers Convene at Premier New York City Venue during HRO World Event
Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: The Dynamics of Managing Non-profit Board Members
Managing any group of people has its challenges, but managing volunteers can be a little like herding fish. Joan Lloyd shares her advice.
Aflac Tops the Global Insurance Industry for Reputation
Reputation Institute Says Aflac Among Top 50 Reputable Companies Around the World
Adjusting to the Brave New World of 403(b) for plan sponsors
A Webcast – Presented By: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and Cammack LaRhette Consulting
Arbita Attends, Presents, Sponsors and Exhibits at 2009 IHRIM HRMStrategies and Technology Expositio
Leading Recruitment Marketing Technology, Media and Services Firm Lends Support to Treasured Professional Association
Visa-Related Considerations for HR Managers Handling Layoffs
As the economy continues its unpredictable decline, many businesses are seeing more and more layoffs. The aftershocks of a decimated workforce undoubtedly have an affect on the team that's left behind to pick up the pieces, often charged with doing more, with a lot less. While it's difficult for any type of business to deal with, technology companies are being hit especially hard, due to the fact that many of their employees are foreign national visa holders. Finding a way to navigate these issues -- losing specialized employees that are hard to bring back temporarily or permanently when the tide finally turns -- is posing many problems for human resource managers. However, there are some solutions that these high-profile companies should take into consideration. Maryanne Kline, associate at Sullivan & Worcester Immigration Department, has outlined these suggestion in the article below, providing positive insight for businesses interested in making changes in their workforces, but whose leaders are unsure of the necessary steps for a smooth transition.
Performance Management Practices that Boost Employee Engagement
There’s a wide body of research that shows that companies whose workers are fully engaged have better corporate performance. It’s unmistakable. In these organizations the team delivers great work, innovation, and they understand that their efforts are linked to the goals of the organization, and linked to how they will be rewarded. This webcast will discuss the significant impact that effective employee performance management can have on increasing employee engagement, and driving higher performance. You’ll hear from Steve Roesler a leading expert in the field of leadership and engagement. Steve will discuss how managers are the mediators of employee engagement because employees see managers as their personal source for direction, feedback, and development, and are expected to have--and share--accurate data that can enhance daily performance. HR Leader Kathy Anthony, of O’Sullivan Creel, will also share her experience of how she transformed her organization to one where performance management is ingrained in their culture, and where employee satisfaction and engagement has vastly increased.
Employee Confidence
Employee Confidence is an action-focused, performance oriented construct that can be used to forecast and enhance the success of the organization by measuring key components of the workplace environment and the individual employee within that environment. This webcast will provide the latest information on the levels of Employee Confidence across USA, UK, China, Russia, India, Brazil, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Canada, and Germany, the 12 largest economies in the world.
Joan Lloyd’s HR Words of Advice: HR Role: Strategic Versus Employee Advocate?
Can HR professionals be both strategic business partners as well as employee advocates? Joan Lloyd tackles the question.
A Tale of Two Buses
Robert Lis Joins Buck Consultants as Director
Robert Lis has joined Buck Consultants as a Director of New Business Development in the Berwyn, PA office.
Astra HR Launches HRVantage -- A Proprietary Assessment Tool Helping Businesses Improve Compliance
Astra HR, a leading provider of innovative outsourced human resource management solutions, today announced the launch of its proprietary HR assessment tool. HRVantage. This is a free assessment tool that Astra HR created to help business owners and HR professional's evaluate internal policies to ensure they are compliant with government employment regulations.
Building a WOW! Recognition Culture
Today’s businesses place increasing demands on their employees in order to meet the challenges of today’s economy. Give employees what they need to engage and excel. Learn how to positively impact morale and your bottom line by developing a WOW! Recognition Culture in your business. This webinar provides practical tips and budget-conscious strategies.
THE BIG FIVE: An Introduction to the Five-Factor Model of Personality for HR Professionals
The Five-Factor Model of Personality is the most current, valid, reliable means of assessing personality available. Psychologists use it as the primary means of understanding and interpreting personality. Download this pdf for more details.
Making Compliance Training Matter: Mandatory Harassment Training in California, Connecticut, & Maine
Most employers have become familiar with the mandatory harassment training mandates that require training for managers in California, Connecticut, and Maine. Unfortunately, those in the business world often refer to such mandatory training as “check the box” training, relegating it to that which must be done but which will probably be ineffective at preventing and correcting sexually harassing behavior. Employers who want the sexual harassment training to be effective must look beyond fulfilling a requirement – simply checking a box – and insist on training that makes a difference in their workplace culture.
Surprising New Global Leadership Research Findings
When US Airways flight 1549 Captain Chesley Sullenberger pulled off the ‘Miracle on the Hudson' safe landing in the Hudson River, the world called him a hero. At Senn Delaney, we call him a high thriver. This amazing story of calm under fire and creatively overcoming incredible challenges offers a compelling lesson about why state of mind matters in times of great challenge. It illustrates what we recently learned in our new Thriving Global Leadership Study™ of thousands of leaders across 60 industries and 50 countries. The findings reveal a dramatic difference between those who are facing these times of crisis with what is defined as a high-thriving state of mind and those with a lower-thriving state of mind. The survey data shows that high-thriving leaders have the exact characteristics needed for success in the times we are in.
Directors Believe Exec Pay Programs Need to Change, Watson Wyatt Survey Finds
A majority of directors who serve on corporate boards believe that the executive pay programs of U.S. companies need to change as a result of the financial crisis, according to a new survey by Watson Wyatt, a leading global consulting firm.
Joan Lloyd’s HR Words of Advice: Beware of Negative Job References
You've had several bites and interviews you felt went well, but you still haven't landed a job. How is that possible? Joan Lloyd shares some answers.
Assessing Credibility in Workplace Investigations
Human resource professionals are often confronted with situations in which they must determine whether what someone is saying is credible. When interviewing candidates, selecting vendors, handling employee relations, and most frequently, in conducting investigations, HR professionals must cut through the clutter and noise, hone in on the crux of the matter, assess the information in terms of what is most likely true, and make decisions accordingly. While is it true that the more experience one has doing this, the better he or she is at making accurate assessments, there is guidance that can help the less experienced make better assessments of credibility.
Creative Cost Control in Contentious Times: Implementing an ADR Program
With a little creative problem solving and program development, you can avoid some of the time and costs associated with the increase in employment-related claims that some companies are experiencing and others anticipate. This article discusses alternative dispute resolutions (ADR) and the questions you should ask, and answer, as you craft a program for your organization. First, you will need some additional background that will be helpful when you go to sell your ADR proposal to your management team. Discrimination claims filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) last year rose to the highest in the agency’s 44-year history, after a Supreme Court ruling that changed the way complaints may be filed.1 A record 95,402 claims were filed during the year ended Sept. 30, 2008, a 15 percent increase over the 2007 filings. More than 25 percent of claims filed contained an allegation of age discrimination while more than 34 percent of the filings included complaints of retaliation, according to the agency.2 The costs an employer will incur to resolve an EEOC charge can easily exceed $100,000. Any alternative that might reduce the number of claims proceeding to an EEOC charge or legal claim is well worth exploring.
Innovations in Succession Management Methods and Applications
The purpose of succession management is to ensure a steady supply of talent for pivotal positions within an organization. The best way to do this is to create ongoing processes and cultural norms within an organization that ensure it is constantly attracting, developing, retaining, and promoting high potential employees. Yet many companies approach succession as a once-a-year event where employees are “racked and stacked” into broad, often illdefined categories. This session explores innovations in talent management methods and technology allowing organizations to shift away from the traditional succession mindset to less disruptive and more effective approaches which are integral to ongoing TM activities. Participants will complete a series of hands-on exercises examining how these innovations can be applied within their own companies.
Caution! – Using Search Engines, MySpace or Facebook for Hiring Decisions…
Employers and recruiters have uncovered what appears to be a treasure trove of applicant information on the internet. By searching the internet and social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace, recruiters feel they are effectively able “to look under the hood” and try “to get into an applicant’s head.” … This article, however, examines why such an apparently easy to use and readily available tool has its dangers and drawbacks.
Unemployed Recruiters Place Themselves as CEO
HR.com publishes Savings and Value Survival Guide offering discounts of over $300,000 in products
HR.com has just released its premier Savings and Value Survival Guide, containing over 300 coupons offering significant discounts or free products and services that will assist HR professionals in their day-to-day activities, as well as save money on products and services that they may already use or need to run their business. HR.com publishes Savings and Value Survival Guide offering discounts of over $300,000 in products and services from over 300 suppliers
Change Management in Difficult Times
A couple of senior leaders recently confided in me that they had no idea what they are doing in these difficult times. They are in uncharted territory. No-one has been here before. They are making it up as they go along. And they are terrified. In this article I suggest that more heads are better than one, so involve your staff. They know more about what is happening than you, and they have a lot of the answers.
Are You Ready?
Are You Ready? TalentDrive today released an innovative look at the recruitment market in 2009 in the form of a dynamic video titled "Are You Ready?". This video looks back to the beginning of online recruiting, as well as all the challenges recruiters face now and in the future, showing the comparison to today's mainstream acceptance of resume posting, candidate sourcing and overall online usage. The video pulls surprising statistics, creating an informative yet exciting experience. Check out the video on YouTube here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpUBN0ZW8Mo)! You won't believe it!
Solutions you can’t delay: Proactive shields against overtime suits & the Employee Free Choice Act
Possibly the two greatest concerns for employers at this time --overtime class actions and The Employee Free Choice Act ("EFCA") -- have one thing in common: Employers who are unprepared for these challenges will face significant and costly legal issues. An employer who has proactively audited his wage/hour practices and who is sued for overtime violations is often at the mercy of plaintiffs' lawyers. Similarly, upon passage of the EFCA, unsuspecting employers, who have not taken effective preventative measures, will have few successful options at their disposal. Fortunately, there are creative and effective strategies which can minimize and/or prevent wage hour class actions (with little to no change in operations), even for employers with a substantial history of non-compliance. Similarly, employers that institute prevention strategies before being faced with an organizing campaign under the EFCA are in a position to implement policies and strategies that render their workforce much less vulnerable to union advances. This webcast will provide employers the tools they need to institute preventative measures that can literally save millions of dollars.