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HR News Analysis

HR and Finance: Working Together

The healthcare-reform law requires a greater collaboration between HR and finance executives, as budget-setting and coverage options take on even more importance as companies begin planning for 2014, when healthcare exchanges become available. MORE

Work and Politics

As the election season heats up, a recent appeals-court decision serves as a reminder that in some workplaces and jurisdictions, political affiliation is a protected right. When deviating from normal hiring or promotion decisions, it's important to have documented reasons for doing so, experts say. MORE

Employers Skeptical of SOTU Promises

President Obama's address focused on jobs training and revitalizing the economy, but employer groups were not won over, especially considering the increasing number of federal regulations that have affected businesses during his administration. Plus, they said, many of the initiatives were ones they heard before. MORE

Engaging Employees Pays Off

New research underscores the importance of employee orientation to an organization's bottom line. Too often, the bulk of a new employee's onboarding and orientation processes are left to hiring managers. HR leaders need to expand their training of managers so they are better able to engage new employees for the long-term. MORE

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HREOnline^TM Highlights

Chronic Pain: A Chronic Drain on Productivity?

By Dr. John Schneider

Chronic pain harms employee productivity and may cause a variety of other physical and emotional problems. HR leaders can help by increasing education and training managers to be more aware of symptoms. MORE

Wariness of NLRB Increases

By Susan R. Meisinger

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

Blog Watch

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• Compensation Café: Who Owns HR?

• Steve Boese's HR Technology: Telling People What to Do

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• HR Observations: Recordkeeping Under the FLSA: A Revisit

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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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Columnists (Online Exclusive)

HR Leadership
By Susan R. Meisinger
Wariness of NLRB Increases

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

Talent Management
By Peter Cappelli
The Value of Elite Colleges

Does it pay to recruit from -- or even go to -- a prestigious university? There have been a number of studies that follow the careers of students who attended elite universities and those who just missed the criteria for admission.MORE

Peter Cappelli'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

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