Employee Life Cycle
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Separation of Employment
Tags Share When employment comes to an end, the organization can honor dignity through straightforward and transparent communication that prioritizes empathy, nondisparagement, mindfulness of the remaining team, and thoughtful exit interview/processes that are open, safe, and designed to leverage authentically sought feedback. Former employees can also be helpful brand ambassadors; don’t squander that opportunity by…
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Promotions
Tags Share Recognition is a core element of workplace dignity. Any organization-wide practice that involves employee recognition through promotion and advancement is therefore a systemic opportunity to advance dignity. A dignity-centered promotion process empowers workers, advances inclusion, and demonstrates fairness. Poorly formed processes, or decision-making that punishes flexibility and caregiving or injects bias, on the…
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Performance Management
Tags Share Performance reviews should be part of an ongoing process of giving transparent feedback consistently to all team members to encourage employee growth. Year-end or other scheduled reviews give managers structured opportunities to advance dignity elements like recognition, fairness, and accountability. And they give organizations important performance trend data, by functions and demographic groups,…
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Onboarding
Tags Share In any workplace, it’s important to give special care to a new employee’s acclimation—and to do so consistently for all similarly situated employees. Inclusive new hire paperwork, introductions to new colleagues, check-ins with a supervisor, an explanation of the overall team or organization and its operations, arranging for lunch or break buddies—each of…
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Recruiting
Tags Share Hiring processes offer a clear starting point for advancing workplace dignity. The dignity-honoring element of inclusion is a key factor here—organizations should consider where they look for talent (seeking to reach untapped labor pools), how they reach out to potential candidates, what signals they send with the application, how they conduct interviews, and…
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