As our Legal Editor Heather Bussing says, “Really weird stuff happens at work.” That’s the focus of our feature article this week from Heather, When Harassment is Legal. Maren Hogan returns to the HR Examiner Editorial Advisory Board with her article Humanizing Your Brand Through Social Media: 6 Steps. John Sumser rounds up this week’s issue withCommunication Channels III, plus 5 Links: Tech Recruiting and his HR Examiner Radio interview of Recruiting Animal. Enjoy!
Social media has become such a permanent and vital part of business that the bar is being raised daily. This whole process begins with a clearly defined brand and strategy.
People often contact me because they believe they’re being harassed at work, treated unfairly, or have been wrongfully terminated. Really weird stuff happens at work.
In our feature, Thinking the Unthinkable, John Sumser writes: “The C Suite is going to hunt for and embrace data visualization companies who can help see what we’ve refused to see: HR builds processes that emphasize sameness. The business requires processes that produce differences. It’s actually that simple.
Steve Smith from The Starr Conspiracy searches for the So What Factor of Workforce Analytics while Heather Bussing has us Learning by Mistake. John Sumser interviews JIBE CEO, Joe Essenfeld. We close this week’s issue with John Sumser’s multi-part series on Communication Channels in Recruiting.
Big Data. There. I said it. Let’s speak this word no more. It’s completely separate from workforce analytics and distracts from the real issue.
It’s okay to fall down, screw up, make mistakes, and figure it out by doing it wrong. Transformation is a process. It usually isn’t pretty. You will always be learning something new, and screwing up while you do.
Disruption happens quickly.
Remember CD Stores? The world before bluetooth?
In this week’s feature Imagining Disruption, John Sumser explores disruption in HR and Recruiting with a three part series (be sure to read Immodest Disruption and Modest Disruption). And Heather Bussing wraps up this week’s issue with her post When Employers Are Liable for Harassment.
The US Supremes issued their opinion in Vance v. Ball State University this morning holding that an employer is not liable for its employee’s racial or sexual harassment unless the harasser is a supervisor of the victim employee.
Dr. Todd Dewett examines the career arc and leadership in this week’s feature post. Guest author, Randy Emelo defines a new learning leader for HR, Heather Bussing talks weasels, and John Sumser calls attention to what’s missing from recruiting software and interviews Hank Stringer on HRExaminer Radio.
People don’t know what it’s like to lead until they get there. Too often, however, professionals overestimate how well they know this new place, thus they engage the stages of promotion with surprise and elevated stress.
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