HR Magazine 

May 2012 Table of Contents 

COVER STORY
Modern-Day Slavery
Help your company prevent human trafficking—it’s an HR problem.
By Dori Meinert

 
YOUR VOICE
HR Magazine is looking for HR professionals to discuss employee segmentation for an upcoming article. What are the advantages and disadvantages? How do you set up the segments? What employee data do you use? To share your insights, e-mail writer Bill Roberts at brobert1@ix.netcom.com. Deadline: June 15.

10 Action Items for May

Get started on these projects with tips from the pages of HR Magazine.

1. Set policies to prevent human trafficking among your suppliers, p. 22.
2. Improve your grievance procedure; consider these best practices, p. 18.
3. Motivate knowledge workers with the suggestions on p. 28.
4. Cultivate HR talent with a state-of-the-art HR internship program, p. 31.
5. Create a training partnership with your local community college, p. 41.
6. Use social media to aid employees in knowledge sharing, p. 49.
7. Explain movement toward market-based pay to your senior execs, p. 55.
8. Get new hires up to speed quickly via online onboarding tools, p. 61.
9. Be alert to multistate compliance problems posed by variations in state employments laws, p. 69.
10. Build a political infrastructure for HR professionals in your state, p. 74.

Get more out of the May issue of HR Magazine with these online resources:

• Video: Slavery in Your Supply Chain. Attorney Trenton Norris of Arnold & Porter LLP discusses what you may need to disclose about your efforts to eliminate human trafficking in your supply chain. To view, click here.
• Archived Web Chat: Trenton Norris of Arnold & Porter LLP answered questions about what a new California law requires companies to disclose about their efforts to prevent human trafficking. Read the archived chat here.
• Learn why more employers are using market pay rather than traditional job evaluation methods to set compensation levels across the organization.
• Find out how to use social media to promote employee knowledge sharing.
• Read this month’s Books in Brief for summaries of:
• 1501 Ways to Reward Employees – Ideas about how to recognize and reward employees, even when resources are scarce.
• Quiet – Why your organization may be undervaluing introverts in the workplace and what it may be missing by doing so.
• HR at Your Service – A view of HR through the lens of customer service.
• Great By Choice – Research on the common business practices of top-performing companies.