Outsourcing
Outsourcing: the strategic delegation of tasks to external experts. Learn how to embrace the power of outsourcing, streamline operations, cut costs, and propel your organization to new heights of success.
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Overhiring
Overhiring may seem like a quick fix, but it can lead to devastating consequences. Read on to discover the four key ways to prevent overhiring in periods of hyper-growth and ensure the success of your company by building a lean, motivated team.
Organizational Development (OD)
As a business owner or executive leader, how you handle and manage change is critical to your organization’s success. Read on to understand why organizational development is important for your organization's ability to achieve its goals and objectives.
Overpaying Employees
Of all the errors made in payroll calculations, overpaying an employee is the least likely to be reported. It is important to know how to quickly identify and correct employee overpayments properly so it doesn't cost your company even more to collect back.
Organizational Design
Do you want to rapidly grow your organization or maintain your competitive edge in an ever changing market but are not sure where to begin? Look first to your organizational design! Read on to learn more about how an effective organizational design can set you up for success.
Outsourcing HR
The many components of HR can be intimidating to someone not familiar with their full range. If you don’t want to tackle it all on your own, consider outsourcing HR.
OFCCP Compliance
Businesses with contracts or subcontracts with the U.S. government may be subject to special compliance requirements. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is the agency responsible for ensuring compliance. When businesses violate requirements, they could be subject to harsh penalties. Read on to learn about the OFCCP, compliance requirements that may impact your business, and how to protect your company from noncompliance penalties.
Onboarding Software
You spend a lot of effort to find and hire the right people; you want to keep them. Studies continue to show a clear correlation between an excellent onboarding experience and employee retention. Yet, a Gallup report in 2021 reported that a staggering 88% of employees surveyed did not believe that their employers did a good job of onboarding.
How would you rate your organization's onboarding experience? Onboarding provides a critical foundation for the retention of talent and strong employee engagement initiatives. If you think you need to up your game a bit, consider onboarding software. It takes onboarding to the next level by reducing costs and workload and helping you gather and analyze data that identifies opportunities for improvement.
How would you rate your organization's onboarding experience? Onboarding provides a critical foundation for the retention of talent and strong employee engagement initiatives. If you think you need to up your game a bit, consider onboarding software. It takes onboarding to the next level by reducing costs and workload and helping you gather and analyze data that identifies opportunities for improvement.
Onboarding Buddy
Onboarding buddy systems create an informal support system for new hires to rely on as they get acclimated within your company.
Continue reading to learn what an onboarding buddy is, the benefits of assigning a buddy to new hires, steps to implement a new employee buddy system and additional tips to consider.
Continue reading to learn what an onboarding buddy is, the benefits of assigning a buddy to new hires, steps to implement a new employee buddy system and additional tips to consider.
Onboarding
You’ve searched for qualified candidates, completed the interview process and selected the best fit for your open role. How do you prepare the candidate you selected for success in your company? Onboarding is the process of preparing new hires for their day-to-day responsibilities and assuring them that they made the right choice in joining your organization.
Continue reading to learn what onboarding is, why it is important for new employees, how to create an onboarding process and tips about employee onboarding.
Continue reading to learn what onboarding is, why it is important for new employees, how to create an onboarding process and tips about employee onboarding.
Organizational Commitment
Ever wonder how you can increase employee commitment in your company? Understanding organizational commitment is the first step to improving employee loyalty and workplace cohesion.
On-Target Earnings
When it comes to building a competitive commissions plan, one of the first things that should be determined is on-target earnings. This is important to determine as it is one of the first things sales reps want to know when they start a new job. In this article, on-target earnings will be explained, as well as the role they play in motivating employees.
Offer Acceptance Rate (OAR)
Improving your offer acceptance rate can decrease your time to fill and spend per hire, and increase your retention rate. Read on to show your executive team the effectiveness and cost savings that HR and recruiting can achieve.
On-Call Compensation
When a company has a need for last minute help, they may look to on-call employees. What happens when the employer requires waiting employees to limit their freedom while on-call? Here’s how to make sure your on-call employees are adequately compensated.
Onboarding Portal
Onboarding is one of those things that can be an absolute nightmare or a total cakewalk. So how can we get more “cake” for onboarding? You can start with a comprehensive onboarding portal, the virtual cookbook of simplified onboarding.
Onboarding Milestone
As professionals in talent acquisition, and in a crazy competitive hiring environment, we can get caught up in the day-to-day of filling one position and moving on to the next. But there is much more to consider after the job offer is accepted if you want to ensure the success of those hires!
Organizational Chart
There's no need to panic when someone asks to see the org chart and you don’t have one yet. Here are some quick types, tools and steps to create a perfect org chart for your organization.
Onboarding Feedback
An employee’s first few weeks will set them up for success or failure. Regardless of how much a company prepares for an employee’s first day, it is critical to create a safe space where they can provide feedback on their onboarding experience. Keep reading to learn more about why receiving feedback is important, how to collect the feedback and what tools to use to collect that feedback.
Occupational Folklore
What do the stories and rumors shared around the water cooler say about your company? These forms of occupational folklore, along with several others, can be advantageous to your organization if you know how to use them.
OCD in the Workplace
“Oh, I’m so OCD” is a common phrase many people will say when in reality they are not. But actual OCD has several causes, criteria, symptoms and pathology. When legitimate OCD enters the workplace, employers need to adapt.
Online Job Application
Does your company have an online job application process? Or are you still wading through email and paper, and hiring mostly people that you or your employees already know personally? Online job application tools have drastically changed the hiring process for companies large and small, improving efficiency and often leading to larger, more diverse candidate pools. This article looks at the pros and cons of implementing online application processes, provides some how-tos of creating your own online application, and includes a few recommendations on high-quality platforms to consider using.
Open Enrollment
Benefits are one of the most important factors in hiring and retaining your talent, which makes open enrollment a crucial time of year. This process can be daunting for a new HR professional, so keep reading to learn how to make open enrollment a more enjoyable experience for you and your employees.
Onboarding Checklist
The way a new employee’s time with your organization begins is crucial to their longevity, engagement, and satisfaction. But onboarding is so often given the short end of the stick! Our encyclopedia has lots of great articles to help you improve your onboarding processes. This entry will focus on the nuts and bolts of the onboarding checklist — a simple but critical tool in starting your new hires off on the right foot.
Overtime
Do you know the requirements for paying overtime to your employees? This article will explore some of the important facts you need to know about overtime and overtime pay.
OKRs
Would you or your company benefit from higher productivity? Greater inspiration? Read this article to learn more about why Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, said “Good ideas with great execution are how you make magic. That’s where OKRs come in.”
Offboarding
After an employee resigns or has been terminated, you will begin the offboarding process. This article will share with you why the offboarding process is important, what the process looks like and mistakes to avoid when offboarding.
Occupational Stress
Occupational stress impacts everyone, harming individuals and organizations. Learn how to identify early signs of stress and how to manage or eliminate its causes for both you and your organization.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
As a new HR professional you might see the word OSHA a lot in the news. You might hear myths about how OSHA will “shut down” businesses and cause headaches for HR. This article will help you learn about OSHA and dispel its myths, enable you to be compliant with OSHA standards and provide your employees with a safe, happy workplace.
One-on-Ones
One-on-one meetings have become an expected part of management. What is their value, and what makes them effective? Here's how to use one-on-ones wisely and have a positive impact on an employees' morale, productivity, and relationship with their manager.
Outplacement Firm
Layoffs are not fun for anyone, but outplacement firms can make them less expensive and less stressful for everyone. Investing in outplacement firms can save companies a small fortune by reducing unemployment costs and legal fees while improving its reputation.
Onboarding Survey
Do you want to be more confident in your onboarding process? Try creating a new onboarding survey to see how you’re doing! We all know that some surveys are more effective than others, so read these tips to ensure yours is compelling.
Offer Letter
The job offer letter is your company’s first opportunity to make a great impression on your future team member. At the same time, it is also a document that must be drafted both strategically and compliantly to avoid creating unintended legal obligations.
In this article, you will learn not only what to put in your next offer letter, but also how to do it the right way so that your candidate is just as excited to accept your offer as you are to offer it.
In this article, you will learn not only what to put in your next offer letter, but also how to do it the right way so that your candidate is just as excited to accept your offer as you are to offer it.
