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Ten Ways to Sabotage Dispute Management: Look at - And Avoid - Ways to Guarantee Failure of an Internal Dispute Resolution Program: More than ever, employers are recognizing that disputes involving their employees need not be unexpected, protracted, expensive and unpleasant. Indeed, many employers have devised sophisticated systems for managing employment conflicts toward a consensual resolution. These systems aim to identify problems, bring them to the attention of managers at the appropriate...; Tags: Society for Human Resource Management; White papers 2004-09-01
Seeking Full Partnership: Outsourcing has emerged as an effective strategy to rein in the costs for modern-day organizations. Such strategy also enables organizations to focus on their core skills. In recent years, outsourcing of Human Resource (HR) functions is on the rise among organizations. Organizations are resorting to HR Business process Outsourcing (BPO)...; Tags: Society for Human Resource Management, Human Resources, outsourcing, BPO, strategy, outsource, partnership; White papers 2004-07-01
The Metrics Maze: The Human Resource (HR) forms the backbone of any organization. The employees of the organization are responsible for taking the organization to ‘dizzy’ heights of success. They overhaul the organizational systems and processes and make them efficient. Therefore, it is imperative for the organization to measure the human capital possessed...; Tags: Society for Human Resource Management, human capital, workforce, Human Resources, financial; White papers 2003-12-01
HR Agenda: Compensation And Benefits: Building an elder care benefits package isn’t the end of HR’s role. It’s also necessary to determine if the benefits prove worthwhile. The article concludes that its costs in helping employees with elder care obligations so they can be on the job are substantially less than what the hospital system...; Tags: Benefits, Society for Human Resource Management, temporary worker, Human Resources, benefit, compensation, job; White papers 2003-09-01
Candidate Glut: The article asserts that the has time changed. In the past two years, the talent market has gone from famine to feast, with staffing specialists working to match a flood of applicants to fewer positions. In this transformed climate, many HR departments are amending their recruiting and screening processes to...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Society for Human Resource Management, staffing, recruiting, hiring, Human Resources, talent; White papers 2003-08-01

Retirement Plans.: HR should help employees start planning for retirement long before their final days on the job.Planning for retirement involves more than redistributing the assets in a 401(k) plan. To make the most of life after leaving the full-time workforce, experts say, employees should start long before their final days on...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Society for Human Resource Management, 401(k) plan, Social Security, health insurance, workforce, workplace, Human Resources, asset, health care, benefit, job; White papers 2003-07-01
Avoiding HR Burnout.: This article can help you survive and thrive in today’s stressful HR climate. HR has never been a job for stress wimps. Lately, however, the stress factor seems to be multiplied.“HR professionals are faced with huge challenges dealing with a workforce that is disengaged and economic pressures to do more...; Tags: Society for Human Resource Management, Human Resources, workforce, job, industry; Case studies 2003-07-01
Building A Retention Culture: Media HR executives need to better understand and have their managers understand how critical the recruiting and hiring process is to finding and keeping good people. A leader’s ability to contribute to an organization’s mission, and ultimately to the bottom line, is determined by his or her ability to attract,...; Tags: Workforce management, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Society for Human Resource Management, talent, leader, recruiting, hiring, best practice; White papers 2003-06-01
HR From the Top.: HR’s stock—and opportunities to advance into the top ranks of management—are on the rise. Whoever says that HR can’t be a route to the top hasn’t seen the recent—and encouraging—data on the subject. The article suggests that one of the factors helping drive HR’s ascent into the executive suites is...; Tags: Society for Human Resource Management, Human Resources, competitive advantage, stock; White papers 2003-06-01
Helping Employees Work Their 401(k)s.: The lackluster performance of 401(k) plans during the past few years has made many employee participants jittery, and increasingly they’re looking for employer-sponsored help on handling retirement investments. Typically, it’s HR’s role to connect em..ployees with sources of financial education, such as company-paid seminars, online investment tools and other information...; Tags: 401(k), Retirement plans, Investment, Society for Human Resource Management, 401(k) plan, worker, financial, Human Resources, performance; White papers 2003-06-01
HR Agenda: Employment And Staffing: The article provide various suggestions to improve recruiting.Technology can improve efficiencies and productivity for businesses; however, there are things that technology can’t do—especially in the area of corporate recruiting. When the subject is how to most immediately influence corporate recruiting, it is important to first talk about people and best...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Society for Human Resource Management, recruiting, staffing, Human Resources, best practice, software; Case studies 2003-05-01
Staying Power.: "When you need key people to stick with you through tough times, reward them for their loyalty.The retention bonus, once a compensation tool reserved largely for top corporate executives, is increasingly being used to retain essential mid-level and rank-and-file employees, particularly in companies facing a financial crisis.Though still less common...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Financial accounting, Society for Human Resource Management, divestiture, bankruptcy, hiring, compensation, talent, payment, merger, acquisition, knowledge, financial; White papers 2003-05-01
Holding Back Bankruptcy.: "For human resource managers in financially troubled companies, working to avoid bankruptcy, operating during it and attempting to emerge from it will challenge every skill and HR function to the utmost. While the goal is to emerge from bankruptcy with a healthy company. "; Tags: Litigation, Society for Human Resource Management, bankruptcy, Human Resources; Case studies 2003-05-01
Forging a Partnership.: CEO churn is at an all-time high. Increasingly, new CEOs enter a company, fail to deliver and are sent packing. Sometimes, if they do produce results, other companies snatch them up. Either way, the process starts all over again.CEOs are under enormous pressure to deliver results quickly. And that, in...; Tags: Society for Human Resource Management, Human Resources, CEO, partnership, health care; Case studies 2003-04-01
A Recruiting Spigot.: The ebb and flow of business can make it difficult for a company to maintain a consistent recruiting strategy and budget. A business slowdown may leave in-house recruiters expensively twiddling their thumbs on full salary—or out of jobs. A new product launch might require hiring 100 skilled professionals—to start yesterday....; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Society for Human Resource Management, recruiting, Human Resources, hiring, job; White papers 2003-04-01
Toning Up Communications: From the executive summary: ‘Writing skills are becoming increasingly important in the workplace. More employees are required to write effectively, even if their jobs never included writing previously. One reason for the change is that nearly every worker is connected via e-mail to each other and to the customers.’ Hence,...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Society for Human Resource Management, workplace, worker, benefit, job, e-mail; White papers 2003-03-01
Agenda: Training And Development: The article is about providing training to employees so that they can write well inorder to protect your company’s credibility and effectiveness. Writing skills are becoming increasingly important in the workplace. More employees are required to write effectively, even if their jobs never included writing previously. One reason for this...; Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, Society for Human Resource Management, training, workplace, worker, job, e-mail; White papers 2003-02-01
Putting HR in Rotation: The article emphasises that both formal and informal rotation programs can help you develop new business tools and take them out for a spin. Experts say the surest way for HR professionals to become strategic business partners is to learn more about the business they serve. And actually “doing the...; Tags: Society for Human Resource Management, Human Resources; White papers 2003-02-01
Off Duty, Out of Work: The article is about an employee engages in legal but controversial off-duty behavior and decision has to be made that whether to fire him or retain him.In such situations, HR must walk a fine line—one that varies with the facts in each specific case. Ultimately, when deciding whether to terminate...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Society for Human Resource Management, workplace, Human Resources, job; Case studies 2003-02-01
Structuring a New Health Plan: Providing a defined contribution health plan for employees requires more than simply picking a plan off the shelf. The article emphasises that give employees access to a fund they can use for their current health care expenses or set aside for their health costs later on, and they’ll spend the...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Society for Human Resource Management, health care; Case studies 2003-02-01