A Manager's Guide to Perfecting Performance Management: How to Transform Your Employee Review Process
It’s time to completely transform your employee review process. Why? Experts agree that the traditional annual employee review is holding business performance back. You know the drill: that time of year rolls around, and a stress-filled meeting is set on the calendar, dreaded by both manager and employee.


UltiPro is Ready for Health Care Reform. Are You? (2013)
The rules governing healthcare in 2013 and 2014 in the US are changing fast! The job of implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) law at a corporate level has begun. Be sure your organization is on track to comply with the new legislation by reading this newly updated white paper.


Managing a Mobile Workforce Whitepaper
With work no longer confined to the office, managers and HR are tasked with a growing set of challenges surrounding the concept of telework. These challenges include managing those employees working full-time outside of the office, whether from home or from a coffee shop, staying on top of positions that require frequent traveling and checking in virtually, and even the need to retain control of administrative tasks when working remotely ourselves.


10 Questions to Ask About HCM in the Cloud
Moving an entire aspect of your organization's infrastructure to the cloud might seem like a daunting proposition. This paper will introduce several important questions HR and payroll professionals should ask when researching potential cloud providers for their organization's people management needs.


People-Centric Recruitment Guide - Texas Roadhouse
Fostering and preserving a high-caliber culture starts with the recruitment of your workforce. Can the interview questions you ask help to identify not only high-performance candidates with the right skills, but also help you evaluate cultural fit? Yes, and every professional recruiter knows they should. What kind of questions do leading organizations ask candidates to zero in on cultural fit?


Future-Proofing Your Talent Assets
The need for skilled, knowledgeable workers continues to grow as our workforce is rapidly changing. The next few years will bring a significant change in the structure of the employee base due to the era of the Baby Boomer coming to an end. Since the start of 2011, around 10,000 Baby Boomers will turn 65 every day while there is only a fraction of qualified, younger workers available to assume their rolls and responsibilities. The rate of growth in the labor pool continues to shrink and the younger generation will continue to fill management rolls much sooner than in the past as more and more Baby Boomers retire. Never before has it been more important to invest in your organization’s future by developing a comprehensive plan for succession management.


Canadian Employment Law Compliance
This complimentary guide will give you the tools you need to avoid common risks and protect your company from hefty fines. Get your free copy today—sponsored by Ultimate Software—to help your organization stay fully compliant with Canadian employment law.


6 Strategic Benefits of Upgrading HR Technology
HR is at the center of an organization’s goals when it generates continuous innovation and excels at delighting its customers. With the right technology, HR can become the cornerstone of the 21st-century workplace—engaging the workplace; facilitating collaboration among its multifaceted multigenerational workforce; and strengthening the business for today and the future


Business Performance Toolkit for Restaurants
From catering to the needs of your customers to ensuring proper management for a huge variety of roles, restaurants rely on effective human capital management (HCM) to get the job done. The food and beverage trade involves many unique workplace scenarios and can be more complex than the average business. However, almost all organizations—from small, local restaurants to large, national chains—share many of the same challenges. High turnover rates and complications from seasonal hiring, complex, variable payroll needs, forecasting unpredictable labor trends and evaluating labor cost versus sales, and much more!


5 Methods for Managing Your Millennials
The prospect of dramatically altering your company’s management strategy to accommodate a new generation might seem daunting. However, by keeping a few key principles in mind, your managers can lead their millennial employees without missing a beat. The changes to the makeup of the future workforce are inevitable, but with these simple steps your business can thrive in this new climate.


5 Tech Solutions for HR Time Wasters
Learn how to get the most time out of your workday and avoid common productivity pitfalls with our complimentary eBook.


HCM Solution Provider Comparison Checklist
Choosing an HCM Solution Provider is an intensive, complex process. Find out which vendors have the requirements your organization needs to maximize its potential with our intuitive, comprehensive checklist.


Fostering Employee Engagement in Your Organization
While it may seem obvious that engagement should be a crucial aspect of any business environment, the reality is that fewer than 1 in 3 employees are actively engaged. Download this new guide to find out why engagement is important, how to measure it, and what can happen when engagement is missing among your workforce.


10 Ways to Wow Your New Hire
More and more, engagement, or lack thereof, is cited as a reason people leave jobs. How do you foster engagement and when does it start? Discover how 10 new hire best practices can ease new employees’ entry into your organization and help turn new hires into passionate, productive team players.


Busting the Myths of HCM Cloud Technology
Not sure about the value of cloud computing when it comes to your organizations people management? Youre not alone. Most companies have yet to fully grasp the benefits offered by this ground-breaking technology. With so much conflicting information out there, its important to understand the difference between cloud fact and fiction. Read this complimentary paper to discover the truth about SaaS in the cloud.


From HR Manager to HCM Strategist in 4 Easy Steps
Leave the role of tactical administrator behind and start making more of an impact as a proactive, innovative leader.


10 Questions HR & Payroll Vendors May NOT Want You to Ask
When an organization decides to improve its HR, payroll, and talent management processes and enters the market for a new human capital management (HCM) solution, the discovery phase can be overwhelming. Not all solutions and vendors are the same, and uncovering the pros and cons to make an informed decision may be more difficult than the decision itself. Efficient, cost-effective HCM has become mission-critical for most businesses. You can’t afford to select a solution only to find that it lacks the functionality you really need and then be stuck with it. Nor can many companies handle the disruption and cost of switching to yet another solution if one doesn’t work out. Doing thorough due diligence on the front end pays off and will save you plenty of frustration and money in the long run.


Top 10 Common Payroll Pitfalls—and How to Avoid Them
Even small payroll mistakes can lead to big headaches—such as regulatory fines, penalties, and damaged employee relationships. But by following some simple best practices, you can easily avoid common slip-ups regarding compliance rules and regulations, taxable fringe benefits, year-end preparation, and much more!


UltiPro Global: Unifying the World of HCM
Ultimate’s vision is to give you a comprehensive solution of record with a strong business intelligence foundation for HR, payroll and talent management—plus enable you to connect your global workforce, standardize your business processes, analyze data, and manage your organization around the world.


What Every Employer Must Know to Avoid Costly Lawsuits
This white paper will get you on the road to protecting your company from some of the most common compliance risks. This complimentary paper reviews five workplace regulations that frequently result in employer violation fines and lawsuits—FLSA, EEO, HIPAA, COBRA, and sexual harassment protection regulations—plus gives you a solution to manage your risks.


6 HR Metrics No Executive Should Be Without


Smarter Strategies for "Greener" HR and Payroll Processes
HR and payroll professionals can play a key role in supporting business practices that are beneficial to the environment. Green HR and payroll is as much about corporate stewardship as it is about making smarter decisions to improve human capital management and to reduce costs and achieve growth. New-breed solutions are transforming traditional HR and payroll transactions into lean, efficient, and paperless electronic workflows for payroll, time and attendance, reporting, recruitment, on-boarding, benefits enrollment, performance reviews, compensation planning, and much more. Read this paper to learn how you can make a difference!


Interview Guide
Herman Miller’s Interview Guide outlines seven major traits to consider when evaluating candidates for open positions. The following are defined and paired with detailed candidate questions: integrity and trust (building trust); business knowledge (business literacy); job knowledge (technical/professional knowledge); flexibility (adaptability); results orientation (energy); relationship building (teamwork/collaboration); commits time and effort to ensure success.


Gantry Group's Customer Satisfaction with HRMS & Payroll Solutions: Comparative Study
This study compares customer experiences among the leading human resource management system (HRMS) and payroll solution vendors. In addition to gaining insight into how satisfied customers are with their current HCM vendor and why, the study explores why customers switched from one vendor’s solution to another. Important insights are revealed into differences between the experiences of customers using HRMS and payroll solutions from three vendors. This study confirms that companies experience much higher levels of overall satisfaction from their HRMS and payroll solutions when provided by SaaS or on-premise software provider rather than a payroll service bureau model.


How to Assess Your Company's Culture
Susan M. Heathfield shares some of her great human resources expertise in this how-to guide. She provides several methods in which you can observe and understand your organizational culture. The results of your cultural assessment will tell you what to do more of, less of, stop, or start. Susan is a management and organization development consultant who specialized in human resources issues and in management development to create forward-thinking workplaces.


Reporting & Workforce Intelligence e-Guide for HR
Explore some of the most valuable reports and tools that HR professionals can turn to when delivering data to executives. Youll also uncover tips you can begin using immediately to gather the metrics you need to focus on business goals and anticipate future trends in the workforce.