Is talent management a worthwhile activity to undertake in your company or organization? And can it help meet your recruitment and employee retention objectives for the remainder of the year ahead? Overall, talent management is a set of integrated HR processes...
Your Employment Brand: Addressing Today’s Recruiting Challenges
With the pandemic almost under control and with a gradually recovering economy, many employers see a paradox: lots of job openings posted but not enough job applications in return. In fact, the number of job openings was up 597,000 to 8.1 million from February 2021 to...
Key Steps Organizations Can Take to Address Pay Equity
Many employers are familiar with the required annual submission of the EEOC’s EEO-1 filing, which gathers data on employees’ job categories, ethnicity, race and gender. While the EEO-1 is a compliance layer, for a two-year period (2017-2018), the EEOC also...
Five Ways to Ramp Up Your Recruiting Strategy
With the passing of the pandemic’s one-year mark, there is room for optimism with regard to reducing the pandemic’s ongoing impact with widespread vaccinations under way. The same could be said for the US economy, much of which, including company hiring, has been...
Pandemic: Planning for Your Employee Vaccination Policy
With COVID-19 vaccines becoming more widely available and with overall lower virus infection rates, many employers are discussing and making plans to have teams soon re-enter their physical office/workplace spaces. Yet employers face a bigger question at the same...
Building Your Workplace Culture: Consider Employee Surveys
With the upending of the workplace over the last year, building and nurturing workplace culture is more important than ever. One key reason for this: a healthy workplace culture – defined broadly as one in which employees feel valued, comfortable and have overt...
The impactHR Team: What We’ve Learned This Year
With the Holiday Season upon us, we hope you and your family can take time to unwind and enjoy the days ahead in anticipation of the new year. We also wish to express our sincere gratitude to our clients, partners and friends for our continued collaboration and...
Planning for 2021: Conduct an Audit of Your HR Function
With the new year looming, there’s still considerable uncertainty with public health and business conditions in the months ahead. With this in mind and the new year looming, now is a good time to take a fresh look at how you manage your organization’s people and...
Performance Management: Moving Past the Annual Review
With the workplace more than upended in this pandemic era, one traditional HR practice, the annual performance review, may begin to fall further to the wayside. One reason, according to a recent Gallup survey, is that only 20% of employees say their performance is...
Diversity and Inclusion: Fostering a Tolerant and Productive Workplace
While the overall effort to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic continues, we’ve all been witness to the continued traumas engendered by racism, hatred and discrimination across the country. With the recent incidents and acts of violence against African Americans – including...