Sentences with phrase «affecting human resources»

Identify and execute legal requirements and government reporting regulations affecting human resources functions and ensure policies, procedures and reporting are in compliance.

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Diane Gherson, IBM senior vice president of human resources, said the company's «first priority has been to identify and engage IBMers who may be affected, in order to provide any assistance they need,» according to a memo IBM sent to Fortune.

A 2016 survey by a national job portal found that more than 60 % of human resources personnel found that an applicant's appearance affected his or her chances at getting the job.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management — effectively, the government's human resources department — disclosed that it had fallen victim to a massive data breach that may affect roughly 4 million current and former federal employees.

In a memo to workers that IBM sent to Fortune, Diane Gherson, IBM Senior Vice President of Human Resources, said the company's «first priority has been to identify and engage IBMers who may be affected, in order to provide any assistance they need.»

Under this initiative, senior Company human resources, compliance, credit, and legal personnel compiled and analyzed extensive information about the Company's incentive plans, including plan documents, eligibility criteria, payout formulas and payment history, and held extensive interviews with business line managers to understand how evaluation of business risk affects incentive plan performance measures and compensation decisions.

The four industries most affected are technology, call centers, human resources, and manufacturing.

The «Hurricane Harvey Recovery: How Donors Can Help» webinar on August 29, 2017, gathered several expert panelists to discuss catastrophic flooding in Texas and Louisiana, and how to allocate resources — human, financial, and technical — to meet the needs of Hurricane Harvey - affected communities.

Pollution in the ocean directly affects ocean organisms and indirectly affects human health and resources.

Decisions made during that time can have lifelong consequences, and well informed «First Responders» are a vital resource for information and support for families in the window of time that most strongly affects human bonding and family health.

The affected COCOBOD executives are Deputy Chief Executive — Agronomy and Quality Control, Deputy Chief Executive — Finance and Administration, Deputy Chief Executive - Operations, Director — Human Resource, Director Civil Works, Deputy Director Civil Works, Procurement Manager, Director of Estates and the Deputy Director Finance.

The project focused on the rights to health and to food, and the background research on the environmental factors affecting the realization of particular human rights became a resource for the human rights and environmental communities undertaking the development of standards, benchmarks, and indicators.

The results offer a new way to think about how status affects workplace relationships, said Robert Lount, co-author of the study and an associate professor of management and human resources at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business.

Human - induced climate change, which affects temperature, precipitation and the nature of extreme events, is increasingly driving biodiversity loss and the reduction of nature's contributions to people, worsening the impact of habitat degradation, pollution, invasive species and the overexploitation of natural resources.»

As the human population climbs, these cumulative changes will ultimately affect our economies and our well - being, because natural ecosystems perform — free of charge — many functions which we take for granted, such as purification of our wastes, production of harvestable resources, regulation of our climate, and restoration of the oxygen that we breathe.»

The interagency committee shall include research and program representatives of agencies conducting global change research, agencies with authority over resources likely to be affected by global change, and agencies with authority to mitigate human - induced global change.

«The availability of the human genome sequence, as well as other genomic resources, has profoundly affected biomedical research and thinking.

«GTEx will begin to provide researchers with a comprehensive view of genetic variation and a more precise understanding of how it affects genes critical to the normal function of tissues and organs,» said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. «This resource will add a new dimension to our understanding of human biology and the mechanisms that lead to disease.»

In a recent series of interviews, human resource officials in six school districts and a statewide charter school system reported a variety of ways and degrees to which schools are being affected by a shortage that many predict will worsen.

«We recognize that we are in a severe teacher shortage that's affecting the entire nation and Arizona ranks last in per - pupil funding,» said Jason D. Hammond Garcia, director of human resources at Phoenix # 1.

Since these school boards aren't usually involved in the day - to - day management of employees, and rely on the recommendations and advice of superintendents, supervisors, and human resource employees in making employment decisions, most — if not all — school districts could be severely affected.

Human Resource Director Tooele County School District Terry will cover the law and how districts will be affected.

Michael Jones, human resources director at Littleton Public Schools, also shared how teacher shortages are affecting principals» abilities to hire experienced, qualified teachers.

OECD recognizes that a clear human and material resource distribution gap affects student performance, stating, «disadvantaged schools tend to... be more likely to suffer from teacher shortages, and shortages or inadequacy of educational materials... than advantaged schools.»

One source close to the company told Reuters the impending layoffs could hit as many as 6,000 people and affect RIM's legal, marketing, sales, operations, and human resources divisions.

The document includes information on water quality, habitat, living resources, maritime archaeological resources, and the human activities that affect them.

Considering the production of affect, the contradictions faced by hired bodies, and the dynamics of using or being used as a human resource, the project stages situations in which a heightened demand for communication drives the outsourcing of personal investment to readymade gestures and protocols.

Keith Kloor, a journalist and environment blogger, also has weighed in on Grantham, an investment guru (and very rich man) who claims «this time is [really] different» in assessing trends in natural resources as they affect markets and human welfare.

* global warming is not significantly affected by human activity but governments expend resources and disrupt social order and economies to reduce human impact but make no provisions for dealing with the effects of warming.

It should also adopt a complementary and precautionary resource - based assessment of the vulnerability of critical resources (those affecting water, food, energy, and human and ecosystem health) to environmental variability and change of all types.

What we can do, however, is develop strategies of adaptation and mitigation, how humans will be affected, how our lives will change, and how we can prevent a dramatic loss of life due to ecological disaster, scarcity of resources, or other significant problems.

There are many who hypothesize that human behavior is affected by population density and resource scarcity.

Extreme events affect every aspect of society and nature including human health, energy, transportation, agriculture, ecosystems, and water resources.

First, as I said above, the veracity of those arguments depends, to some extent, on the ratio of positive and negative externalities, as they relate to non-climate related impacts but also w / r / t the range of sensitivity to ACO2 emissions and the unknowable pace of technological development (that to some degree is affected by the groundwork laid by current - day investment of human capital, intellect, resources, and finances).

I don't agree either on your approach of leaving ethical considerations and sustainability aside as I admit to being «Malthusian» in the sense that I believe that humans have now the power of affecting the global environment (including the resource base) so much that we can affect significantly the conditions that future generations will meet

I don't agree either on your approach of leaving ethical considerations and sustainability aside as I admit to being «Malthusian» in the sense that I believe that humans have now the power of affecting the global environment (including the resource base) so much that we can affect significantly the conditions that future generations will meet — but then you did discuss these issues in point 6.

A resource - based vulnerability framework would give policymakers a better perspective not only of how human forcings affect climate but of how climate affects risk.

The overarching science question guiding this Grand Challenge is «how will a warming world affect available fresh water resources globally, specifically in the food basket regions, and how will it change human interactions with these resources and their value to society?»

The Max - Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry contributes to the understanding of how living organisms — including humans - exchange fundamental resources like water, carbon, nitrogen and energy with their environment, and how this affects and responds to global climate and environmental change.

Requires such committee to include research and program representatives of agencies conducting global change research, agencies with authority over resources likely to be affected by global change, and agencies with authority to mitigate human - induced global change.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

It also analyzes how harmful substances and hazardous waste affect human health and the environment and discusses environmentally related disasters and conflicts and unsustainable use of resources.

The most pervasive effects of global climate change on human uses of the oceans will be due to impacts on biotic resources; transportation and nonliving resource exploitation will be affected to a lesser degree.

Habitat Loss, Invasive Species, Human Activity the Main Threats The main threats birds face are similar to what any species faces, really: Land conversion to agriculture (73 % of species affected) and direct of indirect human use of biological resouHuman Activity the Main Threats The main threats birds face are similar to what any species faces, really: Land conversion to agriculture (73 % of species affected) and direct of indirect human use of biological resouhuman use of biological resources.

The first of the TAR chapters (Chapter 7) was largely devoted to impact issues for human settlements, concluding that settlements are vulnerable to effects of climate change in three major ways: through economic sectors affected by changes in input resource productivity or market demands for goods and services, through impacts on certain physical infrastructures, and through impacts of weather and extreme events on the health of populations.

The purpose of the Regional Roundtable is for local human resources professionals, in - house counsel, and anyone who would benefit from learning about best practices and hot topics affecting the hospitality industry.

We will explain how these developments will affect the day - to - day decisions made by business owners, in - house counsel and human resource professionals.

CEOs, managers, and human resources professionals must cope with constantly changing legislation affecting the employment relationship.

For more information about how this new bill affects your company or how your company can effectively implement it into its existing practices and procedures, please contact John C. Petrella, Esq., Chair of the firm's Employment Litigation Practice Group, at [email protected], or Dina M. Mastellone, Esq., Chair of the firm's Human Resources Practice Group, at [email protected], or 973-533-0777.

Position Your Organization Ahead of the Field in Human Resources Since the founding of Hicks Morley in 1972, tremendous changes in the legal, social and technology landscape have affected the way employers in Canada manage their workplaces.