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Global professional Leo Moncada explains why every HR job these days involves a multicultural workforce.
 

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HR can be a complicated profession. Hiring, onboarding, training, performance, benefits, employee relations, compliance, strategy, frameworks, workplace planning, culture ... and the list goes on. Even with all the latest technology—designed to save time and provide a better experience—there are still strategies and systems that can be updated, changed or completely rebuilt so HR can work smarter and not harder.

The ability to find innovative ways to uncomplicate working with people is key to creating a happier and more productive workforce—both inside and outside the HR department.  

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Employee retention is top-of-mind for any organization looking to stay competitive in today’s market. Despite swaths of technological advances, in our knowledge-based, global economy an organization’s key assets are still its employees. Considering this, substantial amounts of research have been published about potential predictors and causes of employee turnover. Most of this research can be classified into two categories: individual-level explanations (e.g., job satisfaction, person-job fit, etc.) or external and organizational-level explanations (e.g., unemployment rates, job demand, etc.). However, only having these two types of explanations ignores team-level and the...

As digitalization and the accompanying democratization of work disrupt traditional business models, organizations are adopting more agile, tech-enabled ways of working. Today, employers are deconstructing jobs and dispersing work around the globe to be completed by diverse pools of talent ranging from free agents to alliance partners to full-time employees.

As organizations and their HR leaders strive to navigate this emerging ecosystem of work, culture is taking center stage. The “job” is no longer the dominant construct connecting workers within organizations. Increasingly, organizational culture is the strongest bond that binds...