What Can HR Do if an Employee Tests Positive for COVID-19?

HR, COVID-19

Since the coronavirus pandemic began in early 2020, businesses have been creating plans for dealing with the virus. Employees have been working remotely and social distancing rules have been in place. Offices have been observing additional cleanliness procedures and masks have been required. But what if, despite all of your company’s best plans and efforts […]

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Why Human Resource Management Must Change for the Coming Robotics Revolution

HRM, HR

The Coming Automation and Robotics Revolution Many experts have predicted that the robotics revolution and automation trends are coming sooner than you think and why it is time for organizations to prepare for the invasion of the robots and artificial intelligence. In a scenario where nearly 60% of the jobs would be lost to automation […]

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How the HR Scorecard Helps Organizations to Actualize Change Management Initiatives

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Organizational Change Initiatives Often Entail Human Resource Changes Organizational Change Initiatives need the involvement of the Human Resources (HR) function to succeed since such change initiatives are almost always dependant on personnel and human resources changes as well. Indeed, with the advent of the services sector wherein firms in the technology and financial services space […]

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Human Resource Management Best Practices in Contemporary Organizations

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HRM Best Practices in Contemporary Organizations Contemporary Organizations embrace a variety of HRM or Human Resource Management Practices. These include mandatory leaves, weekends off, variable pay, company provided transport, fun and entertainment activities, handsome bonuses as well as subsidized food and other aspects. Western Transnational corporations first introduced these practices in response to the emerging […]

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What is Employee Ghosting and How HR Managers and Organizations Can Deal with it

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What is Employee Ghosting? In recent months, a new term has entered the parlance of HR (Human Resources) professionals worldwide and that is Employee Ghosting. This term refers to the practice of prospective applicants and potential employees not “showing up” after being recruited, or not attending the final stages of the interview process after being […]

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The Role of the HR in How Corporates Can Win (and Lose) the Global Race for Talent

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How the Global Race for Talent is Playing itself out in All Fields There is a global race for talent wherein the best and the brightest of fresh graduates, experienced and lateral entry professionals, and the niche executives are all being wooed by the corporates world over. Starting with the corporates thronging colleges and universities […]

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The HRM Challenge: Managing Opinionated Employees in Polarized and Divisive Times

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How Workplaces can Become Toxic in These Polarised Times We live in extremely polarized and divisive times. With passions about politics and other topics running high and tempers flaring on social media and other online platforms, corporates and HR (Human Resource) Managers too have to deal with managing workforces that bring such passions to the […]

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HRM Strategies in Non Profits and How Similar and Different are They from Corporates

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The Differences between HRM Strategies in Corporates and Non Profits As the name implies, non profits are those entities that are engaged in social activities and which do not exist to make profits. Instead, they are established and run with the purpose of serving society and zero sums accounting wherein the intake equals the cost […]

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