SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management)

Driving Customer Satisfaction Through HR: Creating and Maintaining a Service Climate

There are 30 years of robust evidence to support the following conclusion: service businesses where employees have a positive service climate have customers who are more satisfied. This results in…

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Skill-Based Pay: HR’s Role

Skill‐based pay is one of the most widely‐implemented, poorly understood and under‐researched human resource practices in use today. Part of the problem is that “skill‐based pay” is not a single…

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Competency Modeling Documentation

Over the past 40 years, competency modeling has evolved into an essential input tool for human resource and organizational development practices. Documentation of modeling methods, however, is often lacking. This…

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New Talent Strategy: Attract, Process, Educate, Empower, Engage and Retain the Best

In reaction to the dramatic changes the millennial culture is bringing to the workplace and the coincidence of dramatic business disruptions that are driving the need for more innovative employees,…

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Coaching for Professional Development

Coaching can be an effective and integral component of leadership development programs. Popular among human resource professionals and clients, coaching facilitates leaders’ professional growth and helps to build a powerful…

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Implementing Effective Cyber Security Training for End Users of Computer Networks

Cyber security is a concern for all modern organizations. These organizations cannot achieve their cyber security goals through hardware and information technology (IT) workers alone, so all employees who use…

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Optimizing Perceived Organizational Support to Enhance Employee Engagement Strategies for Engaging and Retaining Mature Workers

Developing and maintaining an engaged workforce remains a critical objective for HR professionals as domestic and foreign competition stiffens. Perceived organizational support (POS), involving the extent to which employees feel…

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Conducting Background Checks for Employee Selection

Background investigations are used by 86% of organizations in the U.S. to determine if applicants have previously engaged in behaviors that suggest they might engage in future counterproductive behaviors on…

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Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Workplace Decisions: Small Steps, Big Effects

Although the need for effective decision-making is ubiquitous in the workplace, in practice the failure rate of important workplace decisions is surprisingly high. This white paper discusses evidence-based strategies that…

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Data Visualization: Get Visual to Drive HR’s Impact and Influence

Data visualization is an immensely powerful technique for exploring and communicating information. To a degree far beyond traditional text or number-based formats, well-designed visualizations make data accessible, clear, enticing and…

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