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• A look inside Panasonic's talent analytics strategy

  Lydia Wu, head of talent analytics at the electronics manufacturer's North America division, says just do your best and use the simple tools you already have. Continue Reading

• HRIS department an essential bridge between HR, IT

  Emerson Electric's VP of HRIS explains why it's important to have a team that can translate HR needs into the black and white of IT -- and guide HR in how to spell it all out. Continue Reading

• Get smarter about HR data security

  HR deals with mountains of sensitive employee data and must do a better job of protecting that information. Here's a look at how they can do just that. Continue Reading

• Do you know how to improve employee experience? Test yourself

  Think you know what it takes to create a positive employee experience for your workers? Take this EX quiz to test your savvy and see where you need work. Continue Reading

• How to choose a payroll vendor: 8 keys for SMBs

  Choosing a payroll vendor is one of the most important decisions that leaders of small and medium-sized businesses can make. Learn which factors you must consider. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • HRIS (human resource information system)
  • people analytics (HR analytics)
  • workforce management (WFM)
  • human capital management (HCM)

  • employee life cycle
  • employee experience
  • human resource management (HRM)
  • Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI)

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• HRIS (human resource information system)

  A human resource information system (HRIS) is software that provides a centralized repository of employee master data that the human resource management (HRM) group needs for completing core human resource (core HR) processes.Continue Reading

• Employee engagement process balances technology and people

  Surveys and onboarding tools can help, but they're only small pieces to the employee engagement puzzle. This handbook provides a holistic view of corporate culture.Continue Reading

• people analytics (HR analytics)

  People analytics, also known as human resource (HR) analytics and talent analytics, is a form of big data that applies math, statistics and modeling to worker-related data to see and predict patterns.Continue Reading

• workforce management (WFM)

  Workforce management (WFM) is an integrated set of processes that a company uses to optimize the productivity of its employees.Continue Reading

• human capital management (HCM)

  Human capital management (HCM) is the comprehensive set of practices for recruiting, managing, developing and optimizing the human resources of an organization.Continue Reading

• employee life cycle

  Employee life cycle -- sometimes spelled as employee lifecycle -- is an HR model that identifies the different stages a worker advances through in an organization and the role HR plays in optimizing that progress.Continue Reading

• employee experience

  Employee experience is the depth and breadth of how a worker perceives his job and the company for which he works, across the entire employee life cycle.Continue Reading

• human resource management (HRM)

  Human resource management (HRM) is the practice of recruiting, hiring, deploying and managing an organization's employees.Continue Reading

• Pre-employment assessment tools enter the smartphone age

  AI and sentiment analysis are meant to make new mobile apps better at matching candidates with your organization. But experts say to tread carefully.Continue Reading

• Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI)

  HRCI (Human Resource Certification Institute) is a U.S. based credentialing organization offering certifications to HR generalists, administrators and managers. The certifications are awarded upon successful completion of competency exams that cover...Continue Reading