Panacea People

Panacea People | October 16, 2016

In the Human Resource Management (HRM) domain, which is using the tool to gather information about trends in organizational and individual behavior, and might even be very handy in bringing out flags on issues which need attention, but bringing about real changes to things being paid attention to, requires concentration on narratives, causality, and even judgment....

Panacea People | June 02, 2016

Singapore's employment landscape is presently undergoing seismic changes, but the sectoral transformations exhorted are being driven more by need rather than by design. Against a backdrop of a slowing economy (2.1 percent in 2015 and expected to remain between 1 and 3 percent this year), high retrenchments in the service industries (4,600 redundancies in 1Q16 compared with 3,500 in 1Q15), and falling demand for manufactured goods, Singapore has had no choice but to review, redesign, and rest...

HR Dive | January 13, 2020

Creativity was the most in-demand soft skill for applicants last year, and it has retained its place heading into 2020, according to a Jan. 9 LinkedIn Learning report. "Organizations need people who can creatively approach problems and tasks across all business roles, from software engineering to HR," the company said. Persuasion, collaboration, adaptability and emotional intelligence rounded out the top five. LinkedIn noted that emotional intelligence — defined as the ability to...

HR Dive | January 14, 2020

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has limited joint employer liability under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in final regulations published Jan. 12. The rule, slated to be published in the Federal Register Jan. 16, spells out the circumstances under which more than one business can be held liable for FLSA violations. It largely adopts the "four-factor balancing test" from DOL's proposed version of the rule while also clarifying that an employee's "economic dependence&...