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            HR News Analysis
Managing Security Risks
Expatriates and business travelers face significant risks around the world this year due to increased social activism, potential natural disasters, and continued risks from crime and terrorism. HR leaders need to ensure that all stakeholders are involved in creating -- and communicating -- detail-rich crisis-management policies and procedures. MORE


Predicting Team Performance
Better interpersonal relationships lead to more effective teams, according to recent research. That's especially true in larger teams, in which all members may not know each other -- or be comfortable going to the team leader when issues arise. MORE


Stress and the Compliance Officer
A majority of ethics and compliance officers are reporting sleepless nights due to work-related worries. They also have considered quitting their jobs due to the stress. Can HR do anything to help turn down the heat these employees are feeling? MORE


Diversity of Autism Offers HR Challenges
Since autism affects individuals in a wide variety of ways, it's important for employers to respond with individualized approaches, when necessary. It's also important, experts say, to focus on the quality of work by the employee instead of his or her social skills. MORE


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            HREOnlineTM Highlights
Analytics! (Did I Just Scare You?)
By Bill Kutik
Workforce analytics can seem scary and complicated, which must be two of the many reasons they have not been successfully used inside HR departments for decades. After many previous attempts by software vendors large and small, consultant Mercer may have come up with a winning combination of technology and consulting. MORE

 
Forcing a Resignation
By Keisha-Ann G. Gray
Micromanaging an employee and making working conditions intolerable in the hope that the worker will resign leave a company open to litigation based on "constructive discharge." It's up to HR leaders to educate managers on how to avoid such potential claims. MORE

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Recent postings from The Leader Board and members of the HREOnline™ Blog Network:

Steve Boese's HR Technology: Staying classy on the way out
China Gorman: The one thing…
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The Human Risk Factor
By Andrew R. McIlvaine
HR leaders at the nation's largest companies are taking steps to manage what has been identified as one of the top risks facing businesses: keeping top talent engaged, challenged and less likely to leave in a rebounding economy. MORE


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Child's Play
By Carol Patton
Some companies are encouraging multiple generations of employee families -- from grandparents to grandchildren -- to embrace healthy lifestyles. While most programs target employees' children, they are more of a strategic business decision than a warm and fuzzy benefit. MORE


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HR Strategies for a Turbulent PBM Marketplace
By David Dross
Contract disputes and mergers affecting the pharmacy-benefit-management sector -- combined with an increase in specialty biotech drugs and a plateauing of generic drugs coming into the market -- require plans sponsors and HR leaders to review the value and efficiency of their PBM relationships. MORE


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HR Technology
By Bill Kutik
Analytics! (Did I Just Scare You?)
Workforce analytics can seem scary and complicated, which must be two of the many reasons they have not been successfully used inside HR departments for decades. After many previous attempts by software vendors large and small, consultant Mercer may have come up with a winning combination of technology and consulting. MORE
Bill Kutik's Past Columns

   
Talent Management
By Peter Cappelli
Jobs Headline the Davos Meetings
The need for more job creation, increased training and education, and concern over rising income inequality dominated the discussions at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting. And people from the emerging economies -- especially China, India, Brazil and the smaller countries of Southeast Asia -- were doing much of the lecturing.MORE
Peter Cappelli's Past Columns

HR Leadership
By Susan R. Meisinger
Wariness of NLRB Increases
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
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

            Legal Clinic
By Keisha-Ann G. Gray
Forcing a Resignation
Micromanaging an employee and making working conditions intolerable in the hope that the worker will resign leave a company open to litigation based on "constructive discharge." It's up to HR leaders to educate managers on how to avoid such potential claims. MORE