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Women-Centric HR Policies Pay Dividends for Companies

HR Digest

The 2018 Global Gender Gap Index finds that women have reached 68 percent parity overall, leaving a gap of 32 percent. Workplace diversity is one of the main challenges for Human Resources. Without the support of the leadership and higher up executives in the organization, HR can only pay lip service to inclusion and equality.

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How Leaders Can Fix a Negative Company Culture

Great Leadership By Dan

If it’s managers or staff who tend to reject requests or new policies, take some time to set firm boundaries and expectations: We expect you to accept new assignments, protocols, or crunch-time duties. First, make sure that you and your top leadership don’t indulge in backstabbing or blame games. Create consequences for noncompliance.

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Married BlackRock executive fired for failing to disclose office romance

HR Digest

BlackRock’s head of human resources, Jeff Smith, who suddenly left the company in July, was apparently fired for indulging in an office romance with a colleague, reports Bloomberg. In 2018, Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich resigned for a similar reason. Intel has a very strict non-fraternization policy at the workplace.

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SpaceX Fired Employees for Condemning Musk, Says Labor Agency

HR Digest

The letter circulated by the employees also called on SpaceX, which has more than 13,000 employees, to clarify its harassment policies and enforce them consistently. I am hopeful these charges will hold SpaceX and its leadership accountable for their long history of mistreating workers and stifling discourse.”

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Looking Ahead: The Biggest HR Trends in 2020

HR Digest

Human Resource is all about recruiting, mentoring and tending of the greatest assets of any company—human capital. Traditionally, Human Resources restricted itself to hiring, payroll, and some administrative duties. Companies must have a clear policy of no discrimination based on the criteria mentioned above.

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2019 HR Leaders of the Year

HR Digest

The Human Resource industry has seen some significant changes in the last two decades. Diane Gherson is a trailblazer in introducing agile technologies in human resource processes. She has utilized human plus machine interactions to formulate agile HR policies using digital tools. Diane Gherson, CHRO of IBM.

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All I want for Christmas…is $10

Surviving Leadership

In February 2018, I will be participating in the Hustle Up the Hancock in Chicago, IL. All donations will support the mission of Respiratory Health Association to prevent lung disease, promote clean air and help people live better through education, research, and policy change. That’s a lot of stairs.