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Faces of HR: How One HR Pro Builds Inclusive Communities and Empowers Women

By Bianca Herron, Editor, HR Daily Advisor Staff Oct 17, 2024 Faces of HR

Updated: Oct 17, 2024

Carmen Amador Barreiro is a passionate organizational psychologist dedicated to creating positive and inclusive workplaces. With a global perspective shaped by her multicultural upbringing, Barreiro brings a unique approach to her work, focusing on engagement, leadership, performance development, emotional intelligence, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Currently serving as the Community Lead for the Oyster People […]

The Evolution of Retirement: From Pensions to 401(k)s and What It Means for Employee Retention

By Lin Grensing-Pophal, Contributing Editor Sep 13, 2024 Benefits and Compensation

Updated: Sep 13, 2024

In the modern, information-based economy, human talent is incredibly important to just about any organization. Finding, recruiting, and retaining that talent is consequently extremely important as well, and businesses have many strategies aimed at retention, from creating diverse and inclusive workspaces to tenure-based bonuses and advancement schemes. But what ever happened to the ultimate corporate […]

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Bay Area Hosts 3 of Nation’s 6 Hardest-Working Cities, So, Congratulations

By Mark I. Schickman, Freeland Cooper & Foreman, LLP Apr 26, 2018 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Apr 26, 2018

I am reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, in which Yuval Noah Harari posits, among other things, that the “Agricultural Revolution,” which created the first stable, large civilized communities, was a disaster, with the successful farmer working much longer and harder than her nomadic hunter-gatherer tribal ancestors, a day spent running through woods replaced by plowing, […]

Building the Case for Automating Time and Attendance

By Stephen Bruce, PhD, PHR Mar 18, 2014 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Mar 21, 2014

Yesterday’s Advisor featured consultant Mollie Lombardi and product manager Jim Mansfield’s tips for automating time and attendance. Today, more of their practical advice, plus an introduction to the all-things-HR-in-one-place website, HR.BLR.com. What Can Be Gained with Technology and Integration? In a word, efficiency and productivity, says Mansfield. An employee asks for a day off. The […]

Should You Cross-Train? Here Are the Benefits

By Lin Grensing-Pophal, Contributing Editor Jan 22, 2018 Learning & Development

Updated: Jan 22, 2018

Cross-training is a technique employed by some organizations in which an employee spends some time doing—or at least trains to do—work in a different business function. For example, a marketing employee might spend some time working in the operations group. A finance employee might spend time with the sales unit. The same process can be […]

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Do’s and Don’ts of Female Retention and Advancement

By Lauren E.M. Russell, Attorney, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP Apr 15, 2020 Diversity & Inclusion

Updated: Apr 15, 2020

Research shows women are graduating from college and professional programs in roughly equal numbers to men—in fact, their graduation rates in many fields are outpacing their male counterparts’. And yet, when we look at the upper echelons of leadership, men greatly outnumber women.

How to Keep A Five-Generation Workforce Happy

By Delaney Rebernik, HealthLeaders Jan 24, 2024 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Jan 24, 2024

We’re in an unprecedented moment for people leaders. “This is the first time in our history in the United States of having five generations at work,” says Larry Callahan, MA, chief people officer at Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Health, which has more than 22,300 workers across 16 hospitals and more than 750 care locations throughout the […]

When Leaders Clash

By Lin Grensing-Pophal, Contributing Editor Feb 21, 2023 Learning & Development

Updated: Feb 28, 2023

A certain archetype typically comes to mind when people think of a leader: confident, assertive, determined, in charge, etc. Those characteristics are great in many situations but not necessarily when they lead to toxic conflict between leaders in an organization. While most companies have a single leader in the form of a CEO, many companies […]

Harnessing Technology to Manage JDs and Talent Management

By Stephen Bruce, PhD, PHR May 7, 2014 Recruiting

Updated: May 25, 2018

Yesterday’s Advisor featured consultant Gordon Medlock’s tips for managing job descriptions in today’s integrated environment. Today, the need to link the JDs to your Integrated Talent Management (ITM) program.   Talent management won’t work without the technology required to support it, says Medlock, who is Senior Talent Management Consultant with HRIZONS. Tech support should provide: […]

5 Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Top Creative Talent

By Tiffani Martinez, Otter PR May 17, 2024 Recruiting

Updated: May 17, 2024

For many companies, recruiting top talent looks a lot like a game of hide and seek. The company is “it” and seeking through a pile of resumes in search of someone with great skills, a positive attitude, and an outstanding track record of delivering great work. When the company finally sets its sights on that […]