Maximizing the strengths and talents of your workforce to increase employee engagement and productivity, reduce attrition, and ultimately improve business results is a basic management and human resource goal.
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Last week, the Society for Human Resource Management and the Families and Work Institute held a conference on the topic in Chicago.
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Her career in the United Nations includes assignments in financial and human resource management of the United Nations Volunteers Programme, the United Nations Protection Force in Croatia and the United Nations Development Programme.
It acquired Mai Foi Consulting, an Indian human resource and payroll management company and TheRightThing, a Findlay, Ohio-based recruitment outsourcing outfit.
In a 2011 survey of corporate onboarding practices by the Society for Human Resource Management, about half of respondents said that limited time and insufficient human-resources staffing prevented them from offering formal programs for new hires.
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For example: sales managers need to have their territory planning and quota-management tools integrated with the Human Resource and Compensation applications in order to better drive behavior and achieve sales goals.
The 2012 National Study of Employers conducted by Families and Work Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) painted a less bleak picture related to employers providing information about eldercare services (41% of employers said they did), and time off for employees to provide care without jeopardizing their jobs (75% of employers said they offered it).
"Typically, organizations let this be a cultural thing and not a policy thing, " says Eric Peterson, manager for diversity and inclusion at the Society for Human Resource Management.
Other women in the article, such as Monica McGrath, a human resource consultant and adjunct professor of management at Wharton, believe a business built on female norms would also be more innovative when it comes to policy issues that relate to family.
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Half the employers in a 2011 survey by the management association reported incidents of bullying in their workplace, and about a fourth of human resource professionals themselves said they had been bullied.
The Society for Human Resource Management reported that 25 percent of employers actually maintain written policies on political activities, and some of these involve conversations about politics at work.
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At the country level, the meeting noted that the development of African LDCs had continued to be constrained by shortcomings in physical infrastructure and human resources development, low levels of domestic resource mobilization, shortcomings in macroeconomic policy design and management, and severe socio-economic consequences of local or regional conflicts.
Six out of ten private employers check the credit histories of at least some of their job applicants, and 13 percent conduct them on all candidates, according to a survey by the Society for Human Resource Management.
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