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October 2016

Leadership and career
October 31, 2016

HR Nightmares: The Disconnect Between Employee Experience and Business Goals

New SilkRoad research examines top worries of HR professionals and finds that 56 percent of HR professionals have no process linking employee experience to annual business goals. CHICAGO (October 25, 2016) -- SilkRoad (www.silkroad.com), a global leader in talent activation solutions, recently announced its fourth annual "What Keeps HR Up At Night?"…
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Hiring
October 28, 2016

Hiring? 5 Tips to Help You Land the Best

In my 20-plus years as an executive recruiter, I've worked with hiring managers all over the world and in many different industries, and they all want the same thing: the best possible candidate and the lowest possible cost-per-hire. And so do you! Today you get to benefit from my experience. I…
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Compliance
October 26, 2016

Workflow Technology and HIPAA

By: Dan Waldinger Health care is continually challenged with properly managing information. Because it has traditionally operated in a paper-intensive environment, that struggle continues, even while most providers have begun to actively transition to electronic health record (EHR) systems. While work is being done to ensure that EHR systems are…
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Hiring
October 24, 2016

5 Key Considerations When Negotiating an Executive Employment Agreement

Hiring and retaining capable executives who can drive performance is a top priority for most any business. Companies should want to incentivize management employees to meet their goals and, at the same time, protect themselves from poor performance or incidents of misconduct. Talented executives with coveted skills and experience have…
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Leadership and career
October 21, 2016

10 Ways to Mentor Clever People

By: Linda Henman If you played sports in school, did the coach play everyone equally? Create an egalitarian form of governance in which each person had a say? Or, did the stars — the ones who had the innate athletic ability and drive to put it into action — receive a disproportionate…
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Leadership and career
October 19, 2016

4 Ways Technology Redefines Work-Life Boundaries

The days of being anchored to a cubicle for a standard eight-hour workday are becoming a thing of the past, as remote work begins to overshadow traditional workplace practices. To many people, this means more time with family, flexible hours and being able to work from the comfort of your…
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Leadership and career
October 17, 2016

HR Pros Need Not Work Overtime to Address New Overtime Laws

By: Jonathan Benhamou Since 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) has required most employers to document their employees’ wages, hours and other employment practices. Human Resources (HR) professionals know that under the current guidelines, job titles need to align with appropriate responsibilities and compensation, otherwise companies may leave themselves…
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Recruiting
October 14, 2016

Hire a Search Firm or Handle Hiring In-House: How Do You Decide?

Editor's note: Today I’m happy to share with you the words and wisdom of Peter Gerard, a Texas-based human capital executive and "change agent" with a reputation for turning around distressed organizations. He’s the guy you want on your team when the organization is growing rapidly or is in transition. I…
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Compliance
October 12, 2016

New DOL Guidance Seeks to Expand FLSA Liability to More “Joint” Employers

By: Beau Howard and Peter Hall According to recent guidance from the Wage & Hour Division (WHD) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), "the traditional employment relationship of one employer employing one employee is less prevalent" nowadays than businesses who share employees or use "third-party management companies, independent contractors,…
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Leadership and career
October 10, 2016

True Leadership Faces a Serious Moral Problem

By: Frank Bucaro For the past three decades, I’ve been crisscrossing the country, speaking to large and small businesses and organizations on ethics and values. The vast majority of my audiences agree that embracing ethical behavior just makes good business sense. In fact, I can hardly think of more than one person…
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