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            HR News Analysis
Diversity of Autism Offers HR Challenges
Since autism affects individuals in a wide variety of ways, it's important for employers to respond with individualized approaches, when necessary. It's also important, experts say, to focus on the quality of work by the employee instead of his or her social skills. MORE


Measuring Competency One Badge at a Time?
Some organizations are talking about awarding badges to demonstrate skills, but the practice is still in its infancy. Nevertheless, HR leaders should make sure hiring managers are aware of this potential new trend. CHROs may also want to consider using badges in their employee-development activities. MORE


Future of Class-Action Cases Still Unclear
Six months after the Supreme Court's decision denying certification in the largest class-action ever brought, the impact continues to ripple throughout the state and federal court systems. Defendants must now be able to show much more individual proof of bias than before -- and belonging to a single gender or race is insufficient to link together claims into class-action litigation. MORE


Will Shortage of Talent Derail the Brazilian Economy?
Brazil is on track for yet another year of above-average GDP performance. This boom, however, poses challenges for the country. Chief among them is a shortage of qualified labor. MORE


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            HREOnlineTM Highlights
Jobs Headline the Davos Meetings
By Peter Cappelli
The need for more job creation, increased training and education, and concern over rising income inequality dominated the discussions at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting. And people from the emerging economies -- especially China, India, Brazil and the smaller countries of Southeast Asia -- were doing much of the lecturing. MORE

 
Women's Tug of War
By Julie Cook Ramirez
For employers in emerging markets, women hold the key to winning the talent war -- if they can overcome the cultural issues that have traditionally held them back. "The goal is not to become Western women," says one expert. "The goal is to reconcile tradition and culture with ambition." MORE

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            Features

Turning Strategy into Action
By Carl C. Hoffmann
Too often, HR leaders purchase technology as a way to gather and incorporate analytics into their business planning processes. Instead, they should create and pursue the analytic processes before making such expenditures. Here are some straightforward steps that will enable HR's effective participation in the annual planning process. MORE


Managing HR Shared-Services Talent
By Marc Solow, Candace Rogers and Greg Vert
HR shared-services organizations allow companies to reduce costs, while improving services and increasing customer satisfaction. To be most effective, however, HR leaders must develop broad and effective talent-management strategies and practices to identify opportunities for improvement, to maintain alignment with business objectives and to stay competitive in the market. MORE


Coaching in Context
By Casey Mulqueen
Adapting personalities, behaviors and work styles is crucial to effectively coaching and managing employees. HR leaders must include recognition and understanding of work styles in their organizations' coaching training, with the first step having managers become aware of their own work styles. MORE


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Talent Management
By Peter Cappelli
Jobs Headline the Davos Meetings
The need for more job creation, increased training and education, and concern over rising income inequality dominated the discussions at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting. And people from the emerging economies -- especially China, India, Brazil and the smaller countries of Southeast Asia -- were doing much of the lecturing.MORE
Peter Cappelli's Past Columns

   
HR Leadership
By Susan R. Meisinger
Wariness of NLRB Increases
All HR executives should be concerned about recent developments at the National Labor Relations Board. Where once you may have just skimmed the news about the agency, you may now want to pay closer attention.MORE
Susan R. Meisinger's Past Columns

Benefits
By Carol Harnett
Creating an Employee Benefits Framework
In a back-and-forth conversation, Harvard Medical School's Ron Kessler and Carol Harnett discuss some healthcare-plan design and ROI strategies for HR leaders, including the impact of recurring or chronic health conditions on accident and injury prevention.MORE
Carol Harnett's Past Columns

   
HR Technology
By Bill Kutik
Is Salesforce.com in Your Future?
The December announcement that Salesforce.com is acquiring Rypple has sparked a flurry of speculation about how the poster child (and largest) SaaS software company is moving into HCM. The senior executives in charge make clear that their effort will be both larger -- and smaller -- than you think. MORE
Bill Kutik's Past Columns

            Legal Clinic
By Keisha-Ann G. Gray
Best Performance-Evaluation Practices
The Legal Clinic offers some best practices for preparing for -- and conducting -- performance evaluations. Effective evaluations often result in improved employee performance, but, if not, the accompanying documentation will be useful should termination be necessary. MORE