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About The Right Workplace: The interpretation and practice of the corporate culture adopted by managers is a key determinant in the day-to-day experience of staff and how they describe the culture. This column on workplace relations shows how the actions and behavior of managers will influence each staff member’s description of the culture—and ultimately, organizational performance.
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The Importance of Induction: Induction has to be about how the employee is welcomed to the organization: how they establish their relationship with colleagues and with supervisors; how they engage with the overall direction and vision of the organization and how they see their role within the structure. How the individual responds to this and performs will then be a matter of assessment during the probation period. HR Managers have a responsibility to develop more welcoming processes for bringing new staff on-board. read more
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Leadership and the Comfort Zone: I have often wondered how we should prepare those we expect to take on leadership roles in our organizations. HR practitioners need to think outside their own comfort zone to provide more effective leadership solutions for their organizations. read more
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HR & Community Engagement: Building and Re-creating Local Relationships: HR can play a role in building these competencies within the business and actively seeking ways of using the community engagement framework as an active source of new talent. read more
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About Diversity Diva: The Diversity Diva tackles real world, down-to-earth topics about workplace diversity and inclusion issues in a way that creates and supports a fair, equitable, positive and efficient workforce.
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The Olympics and the Distribution of Pride in America: Pride is a funny thing in this country. During the Olympics, we can get all giddy about national pride. “Let’s go, USA!” But on American terra cotta, do you ever notice how when different groups of Americans choose to self identify as something other than just “American,” a lot of folks can get very annoyed? read more
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The Tattoo Debate: Are You Judging Candidates by Their Qualifications or Their Body Art?: One of the issues that I’ve tackled over and over again in my years of writing about and talking about diversity is the issue of tattoos. Tattoos are in a rare category as a diversity issue. They aren’t a genetic, physical, biological or physiological category of difference. In some ways, tattoos aren’t even really a class or a sociological division anymore... read more
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Social Media Policies On The Wrong Side Of A Diversity Issue: If you are involved in any Social Media sites at all, particularly Facebook or Twitter, one topic that's all the rage is the issue of prospective employers having the ability to access the Facebook pages of applicants. Privacy issues aside (and that is a pretty big "aside" for me), any company that engages in this policy is putting themselves on the wrong side of a diversity issue, if not an outright discrimination issue. read more
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About Breaking the Mould:
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Lessons from Maverick: The Problem with Top-Down Driven Change: The book Maverick by Ricardo Semler is a narrative about a company identifying the need for a transformational change, then telling the story of how that change was executed. The example, however, falls short of being a paradigm on a number of fronts. read more
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"You're Not the Boss of Me!": Telling people what to do actually destroys their ability to do it. People enjoy challenges; we enjoy achieving our goals and being proud of what we have done. What we hate is being told what to do. read more
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Engagement Matters: The Impact of Training on Employee Turnover: Employee turnover is a major concern for many organizations today. High employee turnover can have a devastating effect on a company, especially if the lost employees are high performers. Although there are several factors that influence the decision to leave an organization, one factor that is linked with the decision to stay is training. read more
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Transform HR Shared Services Challenges to Successes: The implementation of HR shared services and the complete transformation of HR is not an easy task and comes with a variety of challenges. read more
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Taking HRSS to the Next Level: Avoiding the Implementation Hangover: ESS is by far more readily adopted as compared to MSS, due to the prevalent challenges of change management. The implementation of these services are carried out with enthusiasm however, they don’t reach their required potential due to “implementation hangovers.” read more
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About Talent Engagement: One of the biggest issues that stunt growth for any organization large or small is worker productivity. With economic volatility currently impacting profits, productivity issues can tip firms over the brink of zero margins, Stevens shares low-cost recommendations to rectify the morale and worker productivity issues in your organization.
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7 Tips to Conquering the Performance Divide: The end of the year is a time for reflection as well as rebirth for organizations. As companies settle into the remaining weeks, managers in read more
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Unlocking the Morale Issue: One of the biggest issues that stunt growth for any organization large or small is worker productivity. With economic volatility currently read more
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About A Question Of Ethics: This column is designed to be a forum to discuss ethical issues that arise in daily business interactions. Explored are possible solutions to assist in making ethical business practices part of how we operate as professionals.
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Challenging the Boss on Principle: Most of us would agree that good ethics is good for business and bad ethics is bad for business. However, this basic concept begs the question, read more
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Dealing with Bullying and Incivility: [Editor's Note: This is the debut of a monthly column designed to be a forum to discuss ethical issues that arise in daily business read more
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About HR Toolkit: Idea of the Week: HR Toolkit is a collection of ideas, strategies and practical applications pertaining to human resources, training, learning, employee development, social media, and much, much more!
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16 Tips for Being Professional as you Say NO to the Chaos Around You: The goal is not to minimize distractions but to manage them for positive results. Here are real-life proven techniques that get people talking about read more
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Walk the Walk: The #1 Rule for Real Leaders: Leadership is the art of transforming how people think, feel and act. Though some experts make it seem complicated, it really has only two elements: read more
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Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods: Twitterville is primarily a business book. It is filled with examples of how people in all sizes and kinds of business are using Twitter to thrive read more
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About Phillips' Edge: Measurement and metrics are significant to any organizations success. This column focuses on how metrics are developed and used, and the trends occurring, as well as those on the horizon. Additionally focusing on fundamental issues, specific applications, and other initiatives that will attempt to stretch your thinking beyond today’s uses of metrics to where the future may take us.
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Intangibles: Measuring the Hard to Measure and the Hard to Value: This entry will delve deeper into intangibles with specific emphasis on the measurement, analysis and value of this hard-to-value data. read more
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Capturing Cost of Human Resources Programs: Easier Said Than Done: Many of the ROI articles in this column have focused on the benefits of a particular human resources project or program. After all, developing the read more
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How Human Resources Departments and Organizations at Large Can Convert Measurement Data into Money: In today’s economy, a very frequent request (or sometimes ultimatum) is “show me the money.” This request often comes from those who support or fund our projects, a key stakeholder who is concerned about the results. read more
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About Revolutionary Recruiter: Have you ever stopped to think about how the person sitting on the other side of the desk views your recruiting practices? It's easy for an outsider to say what they dislike about this industry, but have you ever done so yourself? In this column learn key tips for coming away with more value adds, practicing transparency, and thus developing an extended relationship with business leaders.
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The Nine Things that Recruiters Do that Irritate Me—A Recruiter: It's easy for someone on the other side of the table to say what they dislike about this industry, but have you ever done so? I have. read more
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The Value of Honesty in a Down Economy: “I met with a recruiter several weeks ago. I thought it went well; but looking back at the meeting, I got pumped for leads but never actually heard back from them.” read more
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Do You “Use” User Groups or Do They “Use” You?: User groups tend to be a group of individuals that specialize in a particular area that meet once a month to listen to a subject matter expert speak. Most times, these groups are sponsored by recruiting firms. read more
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About ExecMojo: Learn from the columnists of ExecMojo successful talent management and employer branding strategies that target your employee’s needs today and in the future and leverage your organization in the competitive marketplace.
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The Most Dangerous Job in Corporate America: CMO: Most successful CMOs hold accountability for the numbers and also lead product development, promotion and advertising, retention/loyalty and sales. These CMOs know the numbers, why they are the way they are and who is responsible for pulling that particular lever in the business. Based on that, they drive action in targeted areas when we needed to build on momentum or close gaps. read more
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Monogamy, Polygamy or Just Engaged?: The search for talent is complex and requires the skill of a mature professional who understands both business and the people who have the critical read more
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Call to Action—Alternative Work Arrangements: We’ve heard the statistics about 78 million boomers all being 55 and older 11 years from now, and the predictions from the Bureau of Labor read more
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