HR Magazine 

June Table of Contents

Definitely, before you leave for the lake or the beach, get started on these HR action items for June, with tips from the pages of HR Magazine.

1. Share your business growth plans with community leaders. Why? Contemplate the implications of business growth run amok, p. 30.
2. Begin wooing “boomerang” employees who left—but might be willing to return to the fold, p. 26.
3. Create a proposal to offer employees the chance to work on projects in departments other than their own, based on a model created by the CME Group Inc. of Chicago, p. 44.
4. Weigh the pros and cons of technology that automates hiring in companies of all sizes, p. 46.
5. Do your employees have enough opportunities for advancement? If not, consider this ambitious action plan, p 54.
6. Adopt one new HR practice that takes customers’ likes and dislikes into account, p. 58.
7. Experiment with the “appreciative inquiry” method of change management in one department or business unit, p. 68.
8. Avoid potential fines and lawsuits by thoroughly understanding labor rules imposed by Mexico’s new labor law, p. 83.
9. Expand the audience for your next big HR training session by making it available via videoconferencing technology, p. 95.
10. Make sure your top business leaders know all the ways the United States’ current debate about gun control affects workplaces, p. 105.

Get more out of the June issue of HR Magazine with these online resources.

Read our Book Blog for summaries of:

• The Performance Appraisal Tool Kit – This practical book provides a customizable appraisal template covering the essential areas of performance management.
• Lean HR  – HR practitioners will learn how to apply lean principles to build a systematic approach to improving HR practices and lowering costs.
• The New Rules of Recruiting – Why the field of recruiting is rapidly changing and what you can do to keep pace with how to look for, connect with, and attract talent.
• Painless Performance Conversations – Communication and performance strategies that any manager can use to effectively influence employee performance.