Browsing Tag HR
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26 March 2012 at 19 : 52 PM
Employers Forcing Job Applicants to Hand Over Facebook Passwords
What Employers Are Doing In the past few months, an increasing number of employers have been demanding access to job candidate’s social media pages as a requirement in the application process. Facebook has seen what it calls a “distressing increase” in the number of people being asked to give employers their passwords over the past few ...
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6 March 2012 at 16 : 46 PM
Ignoring Harassment Could Cost You $168 Million
Think a harassment lawsuit is no big deal for your company? Think again. A physician’s assistant who put up with unwelcome sexual comments, advances, and groping by surgeons for two years- and then was fired for complaining, was recently awarded $168 million by a California jury. This huge amount, which covers $125 million in punitive damages as ...
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27 February 2012 at 20 : 27 PM
What’s Trending in HR?
The following is a short summary of this Houston Business Journal article from John W. Allen. Here’s what HR experts are talking about in 2012: • How to cope with an HR crisis. Case in point: the scandal at PennState. HR must act quickly to address situations where an employee’s misconduct threatens the reputation of the company. There ...
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20 February 2012 at 15 : 24 PM
Fighting Identity Theft in the Workplace
All too often, the news is full of stories about identity theft leaving innocent victims with wiped out bank accounts and damaged credit. Proving that identity theft has occurred is tedious, and it can take years to clean up the mess. The crime of identity theft is not something that organizations often think about as a high-risk liability. ...
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30 January 2012 at 17 : 07 PM
Big Picture Benefits
As with any new year, 2012 has brought the expected trappings: Times Square ball drop, ad nauseum repetition of weight loss commercials, and of course… the lists. For most people, I’m referring to lists like “Top Ten Stocks to Watch in 2012” or perhaps “Top 50 Brangelina Breakups”. However, HR nerds like me have rung in 2012 with a ...
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9 January 2012 at 16 : 04 PM
Unusual Ways to Spot Exceptional Talent
A pristine resume doesn’t always translate into amazing performance on the job. Author George Anders has developed some unusual strategies for spotting your next top performer. Do They Bounce Back Quickly? In our results and reputation-driven culture, there is often the impulse to appear invincible. But people who have overcome obstacles and ...
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3 January 2012 at 21 : 19 PM
How Did We Get Here? A Brief Overview of the PEO Industry
With only about 20 years under its belt, the PEO industry is still relatively young. The initial need for “professional employers” emerged between 1980 and 2000 when the number of laws and regulations addressing employee and labor issues more than doubled. Needless to say, while managing human resources had once been relatively straight-forward and ...
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26 December 2011 at 10 : 53 AM
Strategies to Strengthen Your HR Infrastructure: Week 5
Continuing Blog Series from G&A Partners: 5 Strategies to Strengthen your HR infrastructure. This is the last post in our five week series in which we have analyzed the different ways in which you can strengthen the human resources organization of your company. Each week, this blog has discussed one strategy in-depth. Previous posts can be found ...
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19 December 2011 at 16 : 39 PM
Strategies to Strengthen Your HR Infrastructure: Week 4
Continuing Blog Series from G&A Partners: 5 Strategies to Strengthen your HR infrastructure. In this five week series, we are analyzing the different ways in which you can strengthen the human resources organization of your company. Each week, this blog is discussing one strategy in-depth. Previous posts can be found HERE. Strategy #4: Understand ...
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12 December 2011 at 16 : 51 PM
Strategies to Strengthen Your HR Infrastructure: Week 3
Continuing Blog Series from G&A Partners: 5 Strategies to Strengthen your HR infrastructure. In this five week series, we are analyzing the different ways in which you can strengthen the human resources organization of your organization. Each week, this blog is discussing one strategy in-depth. Previous posts can be found HERE. Strategy #3: ...
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