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By Jim Davis, Production Editor, BLR 08/18/16 Old Saybrook, CT. The HR Daily Advisor research team today announced the results of our most recent survey: Learning Management Systems (LMSs): Best Practices in Establishing ROI and Impact Measurement. The survey was sponsored by Halogen Software.
Your boss sends an email at 5:00 AM, your teammate pings you on Slack at 10:00 PM, and your co-worker is firing off emails from a beachside cabana on vacation. Problematic? Maybe not. For many workers, the real problem isn’t the timing—it’s the pressure. Must you match their availability? Seventy-one percent of employees say they […]
So you think you’re safe because you document every employment action? Read this lawsuit-losing list of common errors, and see if you’re “guilty” of any of them. You’ve been sued by a former employee and now you’re facing the music in court. You’re not worried, though. You’ve documented why you fired the guy, and you’re […]
Conventional wisdom says, when you realize you’ve made a mistake, cut your losses and move on.
By Jennifer Carsen, JD You are undoubtedly weary of hearing about everything the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires of you in terms of the employee health care coverage you’re mandated to provide.
Image Credit: K2 images / Shutterstock.com When TV’s “The Good Wife” wore a distinctive “power suit” by Michael Kors on the show, she was trying to make an impression. When another famous political wife, who has a temporary job, wore the exact same suit to one of her husband’s important “work events,” was she just […]
Ineffective training programs cost organizations millions or billions of dollars each year. And some studies have suggested that only 10% of all corporate training is effective at all.
Employers naturally want to find out as much as they can about potential hires—after all, they’re going to invest a lot of time and money in onboarding and training. But references—both providing and obtaining them—can result in sticky situations.
Yesterday’s Advisor presented rankings of recruiting software from G2 Crowd. Today, the infographic that displays the information graphically. As was mentioned in yesterday’s issue, the grid ranks recruiting software on two scales, market presence and customer satisfaction. (Of course, these are not necessarily the two factors that will be priorities for your organization. For example, […]
The rapid rise of generative AI (Gen AI) business applications over the past two years has been exciting. Forty percent of MBA and Master in Management students say they’re already using Gen AI “multiple times a day,” indicating a rising level of comfort with this technology among the next generation of managers. Meanwhile, 85% of […]