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One of the big trends in employee learning and development heading into 2024 is the growing importance and potential of generative AI. According to some estimates, 60 percent of workers will receive training on prompt engineering next year. For managers, trainers and HR professionals who have only recently become acquainted with or even aware of […]
Every Montana company with even a single employee should have an employee handbook. In a state with arguably the most employee-friendly laws in the country, a haphazard approach to handbooks is dangerous and can create liability with disastrous consequences.
According to one Aberdeen Group study highlighted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), only 2% of companies extend their onboarding programs beyond 1 year. However, research indicates it can take up to 8 months (and sometimes 2 years) for a newly hired employee to reach the same level of productivity as an existing […]
Ever finish interviewing a job candidate and wonder if you’ve asked enough questions—or maybe asked too many? Worse, do you wonder what problematic questions others involved in the hiring process may have asked? The human resources department probably trains managers on the do’s and don’ts of interviewing, but in spite of that training, hiring managers […]
A recent decision from the federal court in Miami provides excellent guidance on how to defeat wage and hour claims.
I-9 forms are the basic building block for an employer to meet their obligation of only hiring workers who are authorized to work in the U.S.
The world of work is changing now more than ever, and to keep up, many businesses are becoming more and more ambiguous in their role descriptions, hierarchy, and goals. How can you provide detail in a world where policy and technology change ever few hours? While fluidity may become the new workplace standard, experts are […]
A new study explores the complexity of managing benefits and the value of multiyear planning to better position Human Resources as business strategists to the executive suite.
by Mark Flora Texas Attorney General (AG) Greg Abbott has filed suit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), seeking a declaratory judgment that Texas and its agencies be entitled to maintain their current policies barring convicted felons, or categories of convicted felons, from state employment. Convicted felons and categories of convicted felons are currently […]
Most organizations are arranged in a pyramid-shaped hierarchy, with large numbers of frontline workers reporting to a smaller group of managers, who in turn report to an even smaller group of directors and VPs, all the way up to a single CEO. Even in organizations that claim to be “flat,” some level of hierarchy is […]