"Typically, organizations let this be a cultural thing and not a policy thing, " says Eric Peterson, manager for diversity and inclusion at the Society for Human Resource Management.
Last week, the Society for Human Resource Management and the Families and Work Institute held a conference on the topic in Chicago.
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The Society for Human Resource Management reported that 25 percent of employers actually maintain written policies on political activities, and some of these involve conversations about politics at work.
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About one-quarter of organizations have a written policy on political activities, according to a survey conducted during the last presidential election cycle by the Society for Human Resource Management, an Alexandria, Va.
After mass layoff announcements this fall, Society for Human Resource Management found that 23% of human-resource professionals surveyed have encountered significantly more cases of eavesdropping in the workplace over the past 12 months.
According to a 2002 study by the Society for Human Resource Management 20 percent of U.S. firms have policies on romance, while 81 percent of human resource bosses said office romances were dangerous.
The strategy is the most common way recruiters find potential candidates who aren't actively looking for a new job, according to a recent survey of 450 members of the Society for Human Resource Management.
In a 2011 survey of corporate onboarding practices by the Society for Human Resource Management, about half of respondents said that limited time and insufficient human-resources staffing prevented them from offering formal programs for new hires.
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Six out of ten private employers check the credit histories of at least some of their job applicants, and 13 percent conduct them on all candidates, according to a survey by the Society for Human Resource Management.
Fiester doesn't have to worry about those tirades anymore, but she hears lots of similar stories in her current role as operations manager at the Society for Human Resource Management, where she often fields questions about the growing issue of workplace bullying.
The 2012 National Study of Employers conducted by Families and Work Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) painted a less bleak picture related to employers providing information about eldercare services (41% of employers said they did), and time off for employees to provide care without jeopardizing their jobs (75% of employers said they offered it).
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