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How to Convince Employers to Pay for Professional Development

WBT Systems

According to the 2014 Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement survey of the Society for Human Resource Management, 40 percent of employees rated job-specific training as “very important” to their satisfaction, and 36 percent rated professional development the same way. Review the employee handbook. Is your boss an anomaly?

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How Much Do Your Employees Know About Their Benefits?

Associations Now

A new survey found many employees don’t read their employee handbooks. If it’s via a handbook, chances are a lot of your employees may not be getting all the information. According to MetLife’s 2014 “ U.S. Tillman recommended surveying employees to determine what they need and want.

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Inside An HR Overhaul

Associations Now

For her efforts, Cacciotti recently received the 2014 Judges’ Choice Benny Award from Employee Benefit News ( ebn ). To start, Cacciotti sent out a confidential employee survey that included more than 100 questions on organizational culture, benefits, compensation, communication, training, and job satisfaction.

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Members Win When Chapters and Associations Get Along

Associations Now

A story from Inman News in April [paywall] brought this to light: After the National Association of Realtors instituted a set of “core standards” for its local associations in 2014, several small or rural associations decided their only choices were to dissolve or merge with another nearby local Realtor association.