Employee Communication
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No Joke: Stand-Up Comedy Training for Employees Can Improve Workplace Culture
Infusing comedy into workplace culture has the potential to improve employee communication skills, build a tight-knit team of employees and lower turnover rate.
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Johns Hopkins Shooting Spurs Improvements to Hospital's Workplace Violence Response Program
Following the shooting, part of the hospital's efforts to enhance its violence prevention planning included instructive courses with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit on identifying certain behavioral patterns that often predict a violent outburst.
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Don’t Worry If Your Workers Tweet This Story Out, SilkRoad Executive Says
Of the employees surveyed by talent management software-maker SilkRoad, 43 percent worked for organizations that allowed total access to social media, 24 percent said access was monitored, and 16 percent had social media access blocked by their employer.
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Privacy Laws Threaten Compliance
California could become the latest state to ban employer access to private social-media sites used by employees. A law passed by the state Legislature last month still must get the approval of Gov. Jerry Brown, who has until the end of the month to sign it.
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Transparency is Vital to Helping Employees Cope with Workplace Violence
Midmarket executives and managers often delay or defer training employees to more readily identify and report the warning signs of violent behavior for fear of exacerbating trauma-related anxieties stemming from the original incident, workplace violence experts say.
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How to Build a Performance Management Program
Begin by defining role-based competencies and behaviors for every employee so they know exactly what is expected of them. These competencies should include the five or six qualities that define success for every member of the organization.
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Court: Worker Not Entitled to Free Speech Protections During Employment Duties
An issue in the case was the U.S. Supreme Court's 2006 ruling in Garcetti vs.
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Supreme Court Divided if Health Care Law Can Survive Without Mandate
At issue in the final day of oral arguments on health care reform was whether the individual mandate, which requires most U.S.
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Employers Get More Flexibility, No Extension in Health Care Plan Communications Rule
Benefit experts had hoped the administration would provide another extension, but none was provided in a batch of frequently asked questions issued March 19 by the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury.
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For 401(k) Advisers, Time to Shelve Old Retirement Dogmas
Plan participation, investment options are not always true measures of a plan's performance.
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Majority of Workers to Be Independent By 2020
Independent workers include those on fixed-term contracts, independent consultants, those working through temporary agencies, workers on an on-call arrangement and those who own a business with less than five employees.
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Employers Adding Value to Good Employee Health
Most early-adapting companies are in the first of three phases to a value-based approach to health care, which involves reducing or eliminating costs around specific medical conditions that have, or may in the future have a negative effect on an employer's health insurance costs.
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Special Report on Talent Management: A Resilient Bunch
Some employers, such as humanitarian organization World Vision, above, provide support and resiliency training to workers whose job is dealing with crisis situations.
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Book Excerpt: Good Company
The authors of the new book say employer goodness requires an inspiring purpose to buoy an organization during tough times.
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More About Nonqualified Plans
The four major types of nonqualified plans, according to Investopedia.com, are:
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HIV-Positive Teacher Alleges Disability, Race Discrimination
The lawsuit alleges that teachers who are not of African-American descent and have been habitually late have not been subject to adverse job actions.
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NLRB Issues Employee Notification Rule
Private-sector employers with workplaces under NLRB jurisdiction (all but the smallest companies) will be required to post the employee rights notice on bulletin boards in the same area that other notices are typically posted. The rollout has been postponed until Jan. 31, 2012.
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Trader Scandal May Hamstring UBS' Recruiting
The $2.3 billion loss the London-based trader allegedly managed to accumulate will make things difficult for the bank's wealth management business, recruiters said.
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Successful Staffing Strategies
Staffing firms and corporate human resources executives offer their best practices on developing a contingent labor strategy.
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SHRM Names Henry Jackson as New President and CEO
Most recently, he led the organization’s initiatives to educate HR professionals on the employment issues facing military veterans.
