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News for HR - March 2009
 Article: Engagement, Performance, Retention - Where do Your Employees Fit?
Article: Where Did Loyalty Go? Ideas to Create a More Loyal Workforce
 White Paper: EAPs: Commodity or Workforce Investment?
 HR Humor: GizGeek
Webcast: Understanding I-9s and E-Verify
 Podcast: Chameleon Leadership: Adapting to Thrive
HR 180: A Tiny Fruit That Tricks the Tongue
What's New? The Latest in HR Software and Services
• Recruitment & Staffing
• Compensation & Benefits
• Talent Management
• Training & Development
Article: Engagement, Performance, Retention - Where do Your Employees Fit?
Source: EffortlessHR
The economic crisis has many companies looking at ways to save money and get through the hard times. What this normally means is that they look to lay off people, cut back benefits (which makes good employees look at other opportunities), stop training programs, reduce marketing, and basically "hunker" down. Business owner Lola Kakes thinks this is the wrong way to go.
Article: Where Did Loyalty Go? Ideas to Create a More Loyal Workforce
Source: Charlie Wonderlic, Wonderlic, Inc.
Is your workforce loyal to your company or self-motivated? If your business suddenly went through a very bad patch, which of your employees would stay and work harder to get you out of it, and which would look for new jobs? More often than not, the answer to that question depends on the type of company you have, the type of culture you have fostered, and the type of hiring you have done.
White Paper: EAPs: Commodity or Workforce Investment?
Source: Robert Levy, president, Corporate Counseling Associates
With the troubled economy, calls to Employee Assistance Programs are at record levels. Yet, Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) stand at a crossroads, and the outcome will determine whether employers are the winners or losers. Some EAPs serve as a static employee-level resource, part of a company's benefit package. Others continue the original EAP mission of supporting organizations as a strategic resource, working with employees and management to improve the performance and productivity of both individuals and the organization.
Employers have two main models to choose from: the benefits-driven model or the performance management model - and the wrong choice can have serious business consequences, particularly when crisis strikes.
HR Humor: USB Warming Mouse Pad
Source: www.usbgeek.com
For the geek who has everything - including cold hands.
Webcast: Understanding I-9s and E-Verify
Source: nowHIRE
Guest speaker Michael P. Nowlan, co-leader of the Clark Hill Immigration Practice Group (a full-service law firm), covers in depth: I-9 compliance policies, the latest legal updates about E-Verify, who is impacted by E-Verify, how to avoid non-compliance penalties and fines, why automating I-9 compliance and the E-Verify process is so important, and much more.
Podcast: Chameleon Leadership: Adapting to Thrive
Source: Coach Effect
Jennifer Mounce, president of Coach Effect, discusses the concept that great managers don't wear one style; rather they adapt, like chameleons with their color, to fit the situation at hand. Mounce has been asked if this means "not being oneself." She replies, "Absolutely not - quite the opposite." To read more, click the link below.
A Tiny Fruit That Tricks the Tongue
Source: The New York Times
CARRIE DASHOW dropped a large dollop of lemon sorbet into a glass of Guinness, stirred, drank and proclaimed that it tasted like a "chocolate shake."
Nearby, Yuka Yoneda tilted her head back as her boyfriend, Albert Yuen, drizzled Tabasco sauce onto her tongue. She swallowed and considered the flavor: "Doughnut glaze, hot doughnut glaze!"
They were among 40 or so people who were tasting under the influence of a small red berry called miracle fruit at a rooftop party in Long Island City, Queens, last Friday night. The berry rewires the way the palate perceives sour flavors for an hour or so, rendering lemons as sweet as candy.
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What's New? The Latest in HR Software and Services
Recruitment & Staffing:
LinkedIn is now allowing group members to post job openings at no charge. The jobs are separate from the group discussions and have their own channel. Only other members of the group have access to the jobs, so while that reduces the overall visibility, it makes it possible to highly target job openings. More information here: http://www.ere.net/2009/02/22/linkedin-groups-now-has-free-job-postings/
Compensation & Benefits:
Great-West Retirement Services launched Retiree Crossroads, a new interactive Web site geared specifically toward participants nearing or in retirement. The new participant-specific Web site addresses financial topics along with the emotional issues that participants may face once in retirement. Participants are able to access Retiree Crossroads through a portal on their existing participant Web site. For more information visit:
http://www.fascore.com/retiree_crossroads/
Talent Management:
Workday, Inc., a provider of SaaS-based Human Resources (HR) and Financial solutions announced new mobile capabilities to bring HR and Financial business processes to smart phones. iPhone capabilities are available now, with BlackBerry support planned for later this year. Users can review, approve, deny and revise tasks from the Workday system and view the status of ongoing business processes. Users can also search their company's worker directory for names, images and contact information. For more details visit http://www.workday.com/mobile
Training & Development:
M. Lee Smith Publishers released a new 12-DVD training program, First Line of Defense, to help employers provide supervisors with engaging, hard-hitting training in the most volatile areas of employment law. The 12 modules explore the most asked-about and trickiest areas of employment and management: Hiring, Sexual Harassment, FMLA, Wage & Hour Law, Workplace Violence, Other Harassment, Privacy, Performance Evaluations, Discipline, Discrimination, Documentation, and Firing. For more information visit http://www.hrhero.com/FLD/
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Stat of the Day
"Finding Better Balance" Survey
Source: FedEx.com
"96 percent of survey respondents (full-time, U.S. workers) believe it will be equally or more important to find a better work/life balance in 2009, compared to 2008.
47 percent of men and 46 percent of women believe it will be more important to find a better work/life balance in 2009.
Survey respondents were asked to review a list of things people do to help achieve a better work/life balance and select those they plan to do in 2009 to help them find a better work/life balance. The responses were as
follows:
• 49 percent plan to take advantage of all vacation time
• 44 percent plan to prioritize projects
• 42 percent plan to create a weekly to-do list
• 41 percent plan to leave work at a reasonable hour
• 36 percent plan to take lunch breaks on a consistent basis
• 29 percent plan to avoid doing work at home or during off-hours
• 28 percent plan to delegate activities they don't have time for
• 28 percent plan to say no to non-priority projects
• 24 percent will consider starting their work day earlier in the morning
• 21 percents plan to take advantage of flex-time options
Quick Tips
Steps Employers Can Take to Create a Healthier Workplace
Source: Nationwide Better Health
While results show that employees think they're making healthy choices at work, the growing occurrence of obesity in our country proves this may not be the case, as 75 percent of Americans are expected to fall into the "overweight" category by 2015 (School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins).
Steps employers can take to create a healthier workplace include:
• Provide healthy vending machine selections - if there's an on-site cafeteria, work with the vendor to offer healthier options. Subsidize any increased costs by charging more for unhealthy options and less for healthy options.
• Create stairwells that are inviting for employees to use (use colorful paint, hang inspiring pictures, pipe in music), set-up walking paths (with distance tracking markers), provide free or discounted gym memberships and encourage participation in group walks.
• Foster a culture that encourages a balance between work/life activities - provide free yoga classes or offer lifestyle stress management courses.
• Offer free, confidential health and wellness programs to your employees such as health risk assessments, dedicated lifestyle health coaching, and online and self-management tools.
Did You Know?
Hiring and Compensation in 2009: CareerBuilder.com
Hiring
Fourteen percent of employers plan to increase their numbers of full-time, permanent employees in 2009. This compares to 32 percent who anticipate increasing headcount in 2008. Sixteen percent plan to decrease staff levels in 2009, while 56 percent expect no change. Thirteen percent are unsure.
Employers in the Northeast are projecting one of the largest amounts of staff decreases at 19 percent, followed by 17 percent in the Midwest, 16 percent in the West and 14 percent in the South.
Hiring by Industry
Job creation in Professional and Business Services and Information Technology is expected to carry into 2009. Twenty-eight percent of IT and 23 percent of Professional and Business Services employers plan to add full-time, permanent employees in 2009; this is followed by 20 percent of employers in Transportation and Utilities, 16 percent in Sales, 14 percent in Health Care and 13 percent in Financial Services. Retail employers are also planning to expand staffs at 7 percent, followed by 5 percent of Hospitality employers.
Thirteen percent of employers say they plan to add "green jobs" in 2009, compared to one-in-ten who say they added them in 2008.
Eighty-eight percent of employers report they will be placing the same or greater amount of emphasis on recruiting bilingual candidates.
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