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Your Strategic HR Assessment—Follow These 7 Steps

In an article on HR.BLR.com®, Lori Kleiman, SPHR, emphasizes the importance of managers regularly reviewing their programs and processes. Identifying weaknesses and confirming compliance with relevant laws and policies is a top priority of evaluation.

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Virginia’s New Office of Civil Rights to Target Bias

Virginia Attorney General (AG) Mark Herring has launched a new Office of Civil Rights to help protect residents from discrimination. The move is seen as a response to the cultural awakening the nation experienced in 2020 after high-profile police shootings and the recognition that once-common offensive behavior toward certain gender groups is no longer acceptable […]

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Not Using AI Yet? Here Are 4 Things You Need to Know

Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly gaining traction across industries and organizations and will soon power  more learning and development (L&D) initiatives. Without AI-enhanced systems, adaptive learning and work inside the modern-day workplace would be impossible.

Getting Employees to Read Your Benefits E-Mails

By Jeffrey Hemker, national manager, Retirement Division, Invesco Plan sponsors spend a significant amount of time crafting and deploying employee benefit communications, with 73% using e-mail to get the word out. Despite these efforts, 80% of participants do not open and read materials and, of those who do open, almost half don’t fully understand the […]

I-9 completion: What immigration forms are acceptable?

Knowing what types of immigration forms can be accepted for non-U.S.-residents is a very important issue for employers handling I-9 forms. Each category (in terms of immigration status) has its own set of rules and restrictions, so it’s crucial for employers to have a complete understanding of the verification process to ensure their workforce is […]

Pay for Performance: The Big Bang Theory

For at least 10 years, the practice of managing compensation has been caught in a black hole pulling organizations towards “sameness,” say experts Myrna Hellerman CCP and Jim Kochanski. In today’s Advisor, they discuss how some Big Bang companies broke out of sameness to do what was right for the business. The Forces of ‘Sameness’ […]