Organizational & Employee Development

The share of job seekers working in human resources and looking for jobs outside HR has fallen from a year ago but is still disconcertingly high.
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Global HR

The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratization in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) issued an update on the companies that are subject to the Emiratization targets in...
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Sage HR Blog | Easy to implement HR tips!

Productivity, whilst at the same time gaining more from less, are critical focuses for business leaders in 2023. Whilst Human Resources professionals and business owners are tasked with  identifying new strategies that will improve their organisation and employee experiences. It’s a crucial tool to also leverage the insights available through data analysis to determine whether the strategies are working and how best to develop more optimised ways of working and outcomes. 
Advanced analytics is transforming the HR landscape
This is where people’s analytics come into their own. But for those who have yet accessed the power of this information and are wondering what people’s analytics are. In short, this is the data collected relating to the human capital and workers’ performance within the organisation.
It helps to think about the growth trajectory of a people analytics team as a stairway with five steps

Everyone's Blog Posts - RecruitingBlogs

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages globally, thanks to its simplicity, versatility, and efficiency. Over the past years, the language has seen a surge in popularity, with increased adoption in various industries such as data science, machine learning, and web development. In recent years, Python has witnessed significant growth in areas such as artificial intelligence, automation, and cloud computing.
In the coming years, Python is expected to continue its growth trajectory, driven by the increasing demand for data-driven solutions and the rise of emerging technologies such as blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), and augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) applications.

Large enterprises and businesses can benefit significantly from hiring Python developers. Python developers can help businesses in areas such as data analysis, automation, and web development, enabling them to improve their processes, increase efficiency, and reduce operational costs. Furthermore, Python developers

The Independent Singapore News

Employer says her maid wants to stay over at her friend’s house Saturday night as Sunday is her day off; the helper says this is normal practice
 
Domestic helpers enjoy a picnic in the shade at “Gulung-gulung” park in Singapore, 27 July 2003. Singapore’s tough campaign to curb employer abuses against foreign maids has improved their working conditions, but civic activists are calling for more reforms saying various forms of indignities persist. AFP PHOTO/Roslan RAHMAN (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP)

SINGAPORE: An employer who hired a maid for the first time wanted to know if she should allow her helper to stay at a friend’s place overnight.
In an anonymous post to a support group on social media for domestic helpers and employers alike, the woman wrote that she hired a Filipino helper. She added that her maid’s day off was on Sunday. She wanted

The Independent Singapore News

SINGAPORE: Award-winning actress Hong Hui Fang recently attended the Malaysia International Film Festival and was asked to be the presenter for the prestigious 6th Malaysia Golden Global Awards.
In an Instagram post shared by The Celebrity Agency, Mediacorp’s talent management, they showed a compilation of what happened in these events through a short video. 
Hong Hui Fang graced the stage wearing a long black sequined dress at the #MIFFEST2023. She also attended the Shorties Awards Ceremony wearing a beautiful red dress. And then a stunning green suit for the Welcome Dinner.


 










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Netizens commented on the said IG posts. Some people wish to have more Singaporean artists represent these award ceremonies, just like Hong Hui Fang did. 
One IG user declared: “I hope to see Mediacorp’s

Human Resources News - Human Resources News Headlines | Bizjournals.com

The company, founded in Natick in 1971, sells supplies for plasma and blood collection as well as for hospital services such as homeostasis, transfusion management and vascular closure and cell salvage products.
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22/09/2023 - 12:09 /Grant Welker
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Human Resources News - Human Resources News Headlines | Bizjournals.com

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is sending representatives to a hardware store on Maui to answer questions from residents impacted by the recent wildfires.
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22/09/2023 - 00:02 /Katie Helland
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15Five

Your company’s success depends on the effectiveness of your managers.



In early Summer of 2023 15Five announced the launch of our HR Outcomes Dashboard, giving HR leaders a way to easily measure, analyze, and act with confidence on the data that connects their performance management programs to business impact. A key driver of that data is manager effectiveness. In this article, we will highlight some of the research and development process that went into building the Manager Effectiveness Indicator (MEI) to help our customers start measuring and improving their managerial effectiveness in service of impacting their organizational performance. We compiled our findings in a research report to peel back the curtain into our research and development of the MEI.








Read the full research report here




Why Manager Effectiveness Matters



The best HR leaders know that HR needs to shift from an administrative-only position to having a more strategic impact on their organization.

NIMH News Feed

During the annual meeting, this open session will feature research progress presentations from the Genes to Mental Health Network (G2MH) investigators.
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13/09/2023 - 09:03 /National Institute of Mental Health
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PsycPORT™: Psychology Newswire

The disability may be a part of a child’s identity, but it’s not the only thing that defines them.
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PsycPORT™: Psychology Newswire

Tips for parents to help their children adapt to emotional challenges and support their mental health.
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MIT News - Artificial intelligence

Songyee Yoon PhD ’00, an entrepreneur, innovator, investor, and leader in AI and the gaming industry, has been appointed as a School of Engineering visiting innovation scholar for the 2023-24 academic year.

Yoon, who is as a member of the MIT Corporation, serves as president and chief strategic officer of NCSOFT, a world leader in game publishing and digital entertainment. Under her leadership, NCSOFT has expanded to include locations in seven countries on three continents. She played a pivotal role in founding the NCSOFT AI Center, a state-of-the-art AI research facility that has helped the company develop and integrate the latest AI and machine learning technologies into their products.   

In 2021, Yoon founded Chamaeleon, an early-stage venture capital firm. As a managing partner at the firm, Yoon focuses on consumer software, content and media, and deep and frontier tech. She particularly supports entrepreneurs working at the intersection

AWS Machine Learning Blog

As customers accelerate their migrations to the cloud and transform their business, some find themselves in situations where they have to manage IT operations in a multicloud environment. For example, you might have acquired a company that was already running on a different cloud provider, or you may have a workload that generates value from unique capabilities provided by AWS. Another example is independent software vendors (ISVs) that make their products and services available in different cloud platforms to benefit their end customers. Or an organization may be operating in a Region where a primary cloud provider is not available, and in order to meet the data sovereignty or data residency requirements, they can use a secondary cloud provider.
In these scenarios, as you start to embrace generative AI, large language models (LLMs) and machine learning (ML) technologies as a core part of your business, you

MIT News - Artificial intelligence

The MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology has selected five new research fellows for 2023-24. Now in its third year, the initiative underscores the ways in which industry and research can collaborate to spur technological innovation.

Through its partnership with the School of Engineering, Accenture provides five annual fellowships awarded to graduate students with the aim of generating powerful new insights on the convergence of business and technology with the potential to transform society. The 2023-24 fellows will conduct research in areas including artificial intelligence, sustainability, and robotics.

The 2023-24 Accenture Fellows are:

Yiyue Luo

Yiyue Luo is a PhD candidate who is developing innovative integrations of tactile sensing and haptics, interactive sensing and AI, digital fabrication, and smart wearables. Her work takes advantage of recent advances in digital manufacturing and AI, and the convergence in advanced sensing and actuation mechanisms, scalable digital manufacturing, and emerging

The Straits Times Business News

September 22, 2023 11:00 AMGhibli movies often come with life lessons - creators and business leaders alike might learn some from this purchase.
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The Straits Times Business News

September 21, 2023 10:06 PME-business training for more than 240 women entrepreneurs from small businesses to start in 2024.
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The Straits Times Business News

September 21, 2023 8:00 AMGerman business magazine said Grab could pay a little more than 1 billion euros (S$1.46 billion) for the unit.
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Coronavirus | The Guardian

First comparative research of its kind finds those with lots of social interaction and supportive family coped betterSecondary school pupils in the UK experienced significantly higher rates of depression, social, emotional and behavioural difficulties, and overall worse mental wellbeing during the Covid pandemic, research shows.Cases of depression among secondary school pupils aged 11 to 13 rose by 8.5% during the pandemic compared with a 0.3% increase for the same cohort prior to Covid, according to a comparative study by researchers at the University of Oxford’s psychiatry department. Continue reading...
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21/09/2023 - 18:02 /Rachel Hall
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Coronavirus | The Guardian

The prime minister plans to set up three-person panel to look at response to the coronavirus pandemicGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMore Australian home owners selling up quick but failing to make a profitNew CoreLogic data shows the portion of owners making a loss - after selling their home within two years of buying - rose to 9.7% in the June quarter, compared to 2.7% in the same period of 2022, AAP reports.We are two years on from the height of pandemic-related lockdowns, low interest rates, and have just passed the peak of transitions from low fixed rates to high variable rates.The portion of homes sold within just two years increased by one percentage point to 8.5% over the past year, however the portion of these short-term resales where the seller incurred a loss has increased more substantially. Continue

Coronavirus | The Guardian

Exclusive: Ex-aide Cassidy Hutchinson says Trump ordered White House guests who tested positive to remove masks in Oval OfficeDonald Trump and his chief of staff Mark Meadows joked about the then US president having Covid on Air Force One after the first debate with Joe Biden in 2020 – an event at which Trump was not tested but three days before which, Meadows later confessed, Trump had indeed tested positive.On the flight, on 29 September 2020, Trump speculated about his health, saying he thought his voice had sounded “a little bit off” at a rally in Duluth, Minnesota. But he also said he did not want the media to “accuse me of something ridiculous, like having Covid”. Continue reading...
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