Three Harsh Realities of Being an HR Leader
No one in an organization – a new employee on the shop floor to a senior executive in a glass skyscraper – is immune to challenges. Like a stone thrown into a pond, t...
Women Coders Are More Respected – But Only If They Hide Their Gender
Despite chauvinist suggestions that programming is a bush-whacked route for women, a gender-blind study shows that women coders write better code than men – as long as ...
Building a High Impact Learning Culture
Kaizen, Japanese for ‘small, incremental, continuous improvement’, in its contemporary form is used to improve and streamline corporate processes. Kaizen refers to ac...
Funny HR Typos That Can Kill Your Career
Typos happen, they’re ubiquitous, but some are funnier than others – especially when other people make them. No matter how many times you proofread, how many times yo...
The Work Culture Evolution
In 2014, Merriam Webster’s dictionary’s word of the year was “culture”. It was chosen for its large amount of online lookups and a noteworthy increase in lookups ...
What Your Work Wardrobe Says About You?
They say it takes only seven seconds to make an impression, and that stained collar won’t help. Clothes define what you are, even at work, so if your work wardrobe is n...
A Guide to Employee Performance Review
Everyone hates it when it’s time for the performance review. It’s a given. But there are ways to move it from the “dreaded core” category to an “engagement tool...
Meet Butterfly, Your Happiness Manager At Work
Companies paying attention to creating a happier workplace culture often turn a blind eye to the personal welfare of the employees or satisfaction of the workers. A lot o...
Dear ThirtySomething, Tilt the Screen Back Please!
Dear 35-year-old self, It’s 2030, you’re 35 – and it seems that life is blowing up on you. Riddle me this, quarterlife crisis – oh? What’s that? You think a let...
Transparency Can Help You Take Your Business To A Next Level
Transparency At Workplace What if each employee can keep a check on their performance in comparison to everyone else in the organization on a daily basis? It would be fan...
Disciplinary Procedure For Employees under the National Labor Relations Act
It is a breach of the National Labor Relations Act2 (NLRA) to release or discipline an employee because of his or her membership in a union, or due to his or her partici...
Disciplinary Procedure for a Unionized Work Force
If a union/unions represent your employees, your disciplinary procedure is most likely to be overlooked by the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). It is important that...
Psychometric Assessment: The Ultimate Employee Assessment Tool
Research indicates that it can cost up to roughly 150% of an employee’s salary in lost productivity. Much less for lower level position. Making bad hires is a cost that...
Surefire Ways to Protect Your Employees from Job Burnout
People often believe that burnout can only occur to professionals with a high job demand due to long-term emotional stress at work. But, that is not true. Burnout can als...
EU Ruling Says Employers Can Read Employees’ Private Online Communication
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that employers could, monitor employees’ private online messages in the workplace. The case revolved around a Romanian e...
Employers’ Guide to Managing Compensation Claims
Usually on The HR Digest, we talk about the direct and indirect form of compensation and its multitude of types ranging from salaries to bonuses. This article is an intr...
