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COVER PACKAGE: EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Closing the Latino Education Gap
In businesses large and small, dedicated professionals are striving to improve basic skills for a growing proportion of tomorrow’s workers.
By Dori Meinert

 

Get started planting these initiatives in your organization, with suggestions from the pages of HR Magazine.

  1. By 2050, a third of the U.S. labor force will be Hispanic. Adopt strategies to support the education of these future workers, p. 28.
  2. To hire the best college grads and alumni, take full advantage of your area’s college career centers, p. 34.
  3. To spur innovation in your company, consider sponsoring a college-level “hackathon,” p. 34.
  4. Weigh all the implications of moving your offshore facilities back to the United States, p. 44.
  5. Learn some handy steps useful for introducing new HR software, p. 50.
  6. Reduce time spent with e-mail, p. 61.
  7. Embrace best practices for using salary survey data, p. 65.
  8. “De-risk” your defined benefit plans, p 79.
  9. Identify—and avoid—a handful of common HR mistakes, p. 85.
  10. Can you name the top-10 workplace issues? Compare your list to the ones your HR peers identified in a recent survey, p. 96.

 

 

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Get more out of the May issue of HR Magazine.

Read our Book Blog for summaries of:

·          Is Work Killing You? – A leading expert on managing stress offers a prescription to combat the biggest problems that contribute to burnout and low productivity.

·        Lean In – Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg examines how women unintentionally sabotage themselves in the workplace and what they can do about it.

·        Nine Minutes on Monday – Presents a simple system to turn managers into leaders by teaching them to combine engagement drivers and proven principles of motivation.

·         Talent, Transformation and the Triple Bottom Line – Learn how to motivate employees to create economic, environmental and social value to support a sustainable organization. 

 

   

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Marge Rzeszut, PHR, HR director at Leader’s Casual Furniture in Largo, Fla., is the winner of the HR Solutions Challenge for April.
Asked how to handle longtime employees who are spreading rumors about how some recently hired workers got their jobs and how much they're being paid, Rzeszut wrote: “Communication is always the key. ... I would ask the department head to meet with those employees and go over their annual evaluations and raises. Make sure they are aware of how many raises they have received.”  Read more.

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