Step-by-Step: How to Design an Effective Mentorship Program (Part 2)
[Part 1 of this article appeared in the previous issue.] Here are four more steps to take when designing an effective mentorship program.
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How Has Tech-Savvy Workplace Impacted Training Methods?
Incorporating technology into training can offer many advantages. For one, it can save money by reducing or eliminating the need to train with expensive materials or equipment when the training can be simulated through today’s technology. It can also save money by allowing a single trainer to remotely train employees across the country or around […]
Vision Benefits Survey Findings Underscore Need to Educate Younger Employees
A new survey has found that younger employees are significantly less likely to enroll in vision benefits plans or understand the importance of eye exams. The Transitions Optical Employee Perceptions of Vision Benefits survey, conducted among 1,300 employees, reveals that 84% of Baby Boomers, 80% of Gen X and 75% of Millennials report that they […]
HR Perspectives: What Is Environmental Scanning?
Have you ever heard of a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis? If you have, the idea of environmental scanning will already be familiar to you. If not, it essentially is referring to the process of reviewing and analyzing the internal and external factors and trends that may affect your current and future actions.
Another Tech Giant Bans Salary History Inquiries
Last month, Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, issued a directive to recruiters and hiring managers: nix the salary history questions.
Employers Offer Incentives to Lure Tech Talent
Salaries for technology professionals in the United States were flat in 2017, according to the annual salary report from tech career platform Dice. But all is not lost, when it comes to attracting tech talent.
5 Reasons HR Teams Should Adopt an Agile Mindset
Two years ago, Paycor’s HR team began experimenting with an agile approach to project management. Agile is a term you’ve probably heard of (Amazon lists more than 1,000 books on the subject), but it has yet to be widely adopted by HR departments.
Taking the Buzz Word Out of Bias
Bias continues to be a big topic in diversity and inclusion, but there is more to culture change and changing mind-set than taking a test on bias. While understanding bias is one key to diversity and inclusion practices and behaviors, it can be used as a buzz word, “trend or flavor of the month,” or […]
Pretextual Failure to Promote Produce Worker Is a Recipe for Disaster
HR professionals are all too familiar with the McDonnell-Douglas burden-shifting standard for establishing discrimination from circumstantial evidence. Under the standard, an employee presents a prima facie (minimally sufficient) case that he belongs to a protected class and suffered an adverse action. The employer then presents a legitimate nondiscriminatory reason for its action, and he in […]
Private Equity CFOs Rank Operational Efficiency as Top Priority, but Take Varied Approaches to Achieve It
Private equity chief financial officers (CFOs), facing pressures including increased investor scrutiny and intensifying market competition, are seeking operational success via different pathways, according to the EY 2018 Global Private Equity CFO survey, Operational excellence: one path or many?