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4 Challenges for Global HR professionals, from Your HR Buddy!
Extract: When business operates across international borders, economic situations as well as diversity can affect your operations! And being a strategic business partner HR professional’s contribution to the success of their organization can be really critical. And that can be from complying with different rules and regulations to integrating markets across nations and managing diverse culture of your workforce…
Extract: If you’re a hiring manager or a recruiter in the trenches, you’re not seeing a way out of it any time soon. You may need a production manager who knows calculus, or an experienced software developer, or a technology strategist with cloud-based computing experience; and you need them yesterday. Oh and, by the way, you need them at a “competitive salary” (i.e., the lowest wage possible)…
Social Media’s Real Legal Issues, by Heather Bussing, HR Examiner
Extract: When companies adopt social media, they are usually concerned about people saying bad things about them. Their first instinct is to issue a policy that dictates what people can and cannot say. This can often backfire, since being able to talk about wages, hours and working conditions is protected by the NLRA. Employers want to be careful about disciplining employees for off-duty conduct…
Rethink Performance Appraisals, by Susan M. Heathfield, About.com (Human Resources)
Extract: “In some organisations the PA system is linked to pay rises; this only leads to nepotism, favouritism, distortion , manipulation and outright cheating. What I do advocate is strong leadership and management development. Teaching those in such roles to counsel for performance improvement and the like…
Selection by Holger Falk and Alfonso Mazariegos
