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Employee Health Incentives: Myth or Miracle?
… employers with a total of 560,000 workers indicated that financial incentives tied to a communications strategy and workplace culture boosted employee participation in health risk assessments.Benefits-integrated incentives such as lowered health …
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Happy Talk? Keep Talkin' but Start Doin'
… believe that the responsibility for creating a happy or a dysfunctional culture rests with HR. Company dismissed. Workplace culture is shaped by the folks in charge. They determine whether the workplace has “a second-rate corporate culture …
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College Grads, Ready or Not? Employers Think Not
Two-thirds of all hiring managers don't believe recent college graduates are ready for the office, according to a recent survey.
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No Joke: Stand-Up Comedy Training for Employees Can Improve Workplace Culture
… said Cody, who believes poking fun at yourself brings a certain level of humility and humanity to Peppercomm's workplace culture . Although that style of humor works for Peppercomm, it doesn't work for every corporate culture, said Fletcher …
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They Are Worth More
That $8.25 an hour is a wage you pay to high school kids living with their parents, not an adult trying to live a decent life in a U.S. city.
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Building a Philanthropic Culture Builds a Better Brand, Too
With some 30 percent of employed people volunteering in 2012, companies tap into measured philanthropic efforts to boost their brand and business objectives.
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Companies Find a Cause to Rally Around
Benefits company Unum matches employee donations to educational programs on a 2-to-1 basis, while other financial donations means a dollar-for-dollar match.
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Learning to Save, Saving to Learn: A Portrait of the Next Generation
Neil Howe, president and co-founder of LifeCourse Associates, refers to people in their late teens as late-wave millennials. Howe says an important quality of this cohort is that they place a higher importance on education than older millennials.
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HR Data Enters the Equation
The best-performing HR departments are harvesting big data so their leaders arrive at the proverbial top table with insights about pivotal roles, critical skills and gaps, says Harry Osle, global HR transformation and advisory practice leader at The Hackett Group.
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A Look at Abercrombie and Fitch's 'Look' Policies
If you hope to claim an undue hardship defense to a religious accommodation claim based on your company's image, you need to have the hard data to back your claim. Hypothetical hardships likely will not carry the day.
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Is HR at Its Breaking Point?
Some companies are choosing to do away with traditional HR departments and divvy up the duties to other departments, but not everyone agrees that's such a good idea.
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Giving Gets a Boost by Taking One to the Team
At Hampton Inn staff meetings, team members have built bicycles and playhouses for children in need in the United States, as well as prosthetic hands for children in Latin America.
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A 'Wet One' Renders Him Gay? 5th Circuit to Reconsider Same-Sex Harassment Case
In Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Boh Brothers Constr. Co. , ironworker Kerry Woods (male) asserted that his supervisor, Chuck Wolfe, subjected him to all of the following: Called Woods names such as "faggot" and "princess." Approached Woods from behind to simulate sexual intercourse.
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Survey: 2011 Saw $20 Billion in Corporate Giving
That came in the forms of direct cash donations, cash donations through their foundations, noncash donations and matching employee donations.
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How Do We Repair Engagement Following Layoffs?
What are some practical ways to boost engagement following announcement of layoffs? It's not that great to start with and I expect it will get worse.
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Another Generation Rises: Looking Beyond the Millennials
Whatever trendy term winds up sticking—'Re-Gens,' 'Gen Z,' 'Pluralist' or 'Homelanders'—know that this group now entering its college years is your workforce of the future.
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All In Favor of Improving Maternity Leave Policies?
At a time when businesses are expecting more from their employees than ever before, I feel a little reciprocity is in order. Companies could simply go beyond the pregnancy discrimination laws and FMLA leave policies and give their employees longer and compensated maternity leave.
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The Final Four Verdict: Rutgers Fouls Out
Rutgers is a fine institution committed to building a respectful community. Parsing abusive conduct without regard to its impact on that community, its organizational values, reputation and overall brand is narrow, shortsighted and unworthy of the university.
