HR Magazine 

May 2012 Table of Contents 

COVER STORY
Modern-Day Slavery
Help your company prevent human trafficking—it’s an HR problem.
By Dori Meinert

10 Action Items for May

Get started on these projects with tips from the pages of HR Magazine.

1. Set policies to prevent human trafficking among your suppliers, .p. 22.
2. Improve your grievance procedure; consider these best practices, p. 18.
3. Motivate knowledge workers with the suggestions on p. 28.
4. Cultivate HR talent with a state-of-the-art HR internship program, p. 31.
5. Create a training partnership with your local community college, p. 41.
6. Use social media to aid employees in knowledge sharing, p. 49.
7. Explain movement toward market-based pay to your senior execs, p. 55.
8. Get new hires up to speed quickly via online onboarding tools, p. 61.
9. Be alert to multistate compliance problems posed by variations in state employments laws, p. 69.
10. Build a political infrastructure for HR professionals in your state, p. 74.

Get more out of the May issue of HR Magazine with these online resources:

• Web Chat: Human Trafficking and HR. Does your company do business in California? If so, you may need to disclose your efforts to eliminate slavery from your supply chain. Attorney Trenton Norris of Arnold & Porter LLP law firm answered questions May 18. Read the archived chat here.
• Learn why more employers are using market pay rather than traditional job evaluation methods to set compensation levels across the organization.
• Find out how to use social media to promote employee knowledge sharing.
• Read this month’s Books in Brief for summaries of:
• 1501 Ways to Reward Employees – Ideas about how to recognize and reward employees, even when resources are scarce.
• Quiet – Why your organization may be undervaluing introverts in the workplace and what it may be missing by doing so.
• HR at Your Service – A view of HR through the lens of customer service.
• Great By Choice – Research on the common business practices of top-performing companies.