Society for Employee Relations SFER

07/10/2021

https://psychcentral.com/health/self-care-essential-to-caregivers

A personal account by a lifetime caregiver on how self-care became more than an option, a necessity for the whole family.

05/15/2018

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The right partnership can enhance your career.

05/15/2018

Here's what 15 leaders say they learned from their mother. What are your lessons learned?

Mothers, no doubt, play quite a role in influencing their entrepreneurial children.

05/15/2018

No Contact When Reporting Your Complaint.

The wrong approach to sexual harassment can lead your company to lawsuits, or a visit from the feds.

05/15/2018

No ? Contact when reporting your complaint.

The Movement has required all brands to look within their corporate culture and be prepared for whistleblowing.

05/04/2018

Frito-Lay Will Pay $2.4M to Settle Background Check Class Action Lawsuit

Frito-Lay has agreed to pay $2.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging improper use of consumer credit reports in hiring employees.

05/04/2018

Gagging Political and Religious Discussions At Work. Why??

Religious and political discussions are a part of cognitive diversity. There is no sturdy evidence or body of work that supports the perplexing belief that religion and politics are emotional topics, that provide employees permission to act savagely and without respect for other people’s ideas.Cog...

05/04/2018

Society for Employee Relations SFER Change The Name "Human Resources" To Something More Descriptive PLEASE
Names matter.
It has been many years since the word "Personnel Departments" became described with an equally weightless word, "Human Resources Department"...
These two descriptions do not do anything, especially in this era, to create cohesive and engaged employees and departments that are respected and considered more than the employer hatchet team or the picnics and fun team.

The term human capital is even more perplexing as it rips the humanity off employees, and now equates them to mere capital for the organization.

Names matter. It creates a difference in perception, understanding and behaviors of those who hear and use such names. For example, what if the president was described as the "man in the White House"... This is very similar to the low effect with which human resources affects people.

When human resources began to have more responsibilities apart from the administrative ones, the name evolved from personnel to something very similar.

There are many problems that are stomping the evolution of the Human Resources Profession, and the name issue is not a cosmetic one. Human Resources in successful companies has become an analytics, human, employee empowerment, and employer financial creation department. However, nothing in the name describes it with the power it deserves.

I think the seriousness that people give to a matter is dependent in large part to its description, and of course the psychological and other more visible actions of that thing.

Can anyone imagine if bombs were described as "things that go boom?"

While successful companies are reviewing the value provided by human resources departments, they would be well served to consider the function that HR departments SHOULD be performing, and name them accordingly. And please, "Employee Horror place" should not be remotely encouraged in the grapevine description of HR.

05/04/2018

Old Human Resources and Employee Relations (HR/ER) is dead. Modern HR/ER has become the front-line global HR/ER practice. HR/ER encompass all people business related procedures from hiring to retirement. However, this great profession might continue to be marginalized in more organizations, unless t...

05/04/2018

Article By Shawn Doyle Culled From, Inc.com I’ve been involved in training, speaking, and consulting for 28 years–and the issues have been the same since I started. The shocking truth is that a ton of money gets spent–but it’s all wasted because of the unintentional barriers organizations ha...

05/04/2018

We live in a society in which many people, unfortunately, have decided to tie their self worth with their job or lack of a job. Consequently, because of this odd attachment of self worth to a position, in the search for a good job many are filled with near despair in a process which by its very natu...

05/04/2018

Ladies, Timidity At Work Could Damage Your Career
Sonia Johnson (Green) J.D., LLM., LLM., SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Executive Director

A while back, I facilitated a series of meetings as a guest speaker. During the meetings with these senior executives, I noticed that many of the high level female executives of this well known company said NOTHING during the meetings. Meanwhile, their male counterparts engaged in vigorous and excit...