Purpose This paper aims to provide insight of virtual onboarding and the importance of good technology and making good first impressions in the hybrid working era. Design/methodology/approach The paper followed a structured opinion piece byline, taking into account statistics and research from...

Purpose HR leaders and corporate benefits managers must balance organizational costs with decisions about which new tools and treatments will be covered by their employee health insurance plans. Getting it right can mean the difference between life and death for cancer patients. Most HR leaders,...

Purpose Out of sight, out of mind is not a new phenomenon. It is always been a challenge for employers with a distributed workforce. However, what is new is the scale, so employers need to address this problem, and fast. Design/methodology/approach Company culture, checking in, keeping on top of...

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to describe the relevance and application of insights from the field of neuroscience on practice and thinking of human resources (HRs). Design/methodology/approach It draws on the experience, views and insights of the authors in providing the context, some of...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between individual performance and remuneration. Design/methodology/approach The paper critically examines the importance of payment systems as a means of directly controlling employee behavior. Findings Abolishing performance ratings...

Purpose The purpose of this case study is to outline the internal communication strategies, tools, techniques and messages that can help organizations to foster transparent, deliberate communication with employees. Design/methodology/approach The author synthesizes three years of learnings and...

Purpose This study aims to describe the role of HR in people-related transformation. Design/methodology/approach Bringing together multiple databases, and the experience of a major consulting firm, this study finds that HR only occasionally is tasked to lead these important changes despite...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to ask why western organisations appear to be moving towards a single global HR model that minimises cultural differences compared with Asian organisations that seem to allow more variation in HR policies and practices. Moreover, we try to identify the...

Purpose Unionized employees have the legal right to bring a union representative with them into an investigatory interview if they request it (“Weingarten rights”). This study aims to demonstrate that employers should allow nonunion employees the right to have a co-employee accompany them in...

Purpose Today’s employees expect a consumer-like communications experience: worthy of their time, meaningful, easy to consume, delightful and consistent. An IDG survey saw that frequent, easy-to-share, modern communications correlated positively to employees’ job satisfaction; increasing the...