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Accelerate Your Growth through Agile HR Practices

HR Digest

Change is the only constant and agile HR appears to be the next evolutionary stage of human resources in an organization. Originally designed for software development, Agile has gained traction in various business functions, including HR, due to its adaptive and iterative approach to work. can all adopt these agile practices.

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Billons of Dollars Wasted, Part Two - What Happened Next.

Building Personal Strength

As I said in my post on December 9th , I never did write the article exposing the "Dark Secret" of the training and development industry - that organizations world-wide were investing billions of dollars annually in instruction that fails to produce lasting changes in behavior and improved workplace performance. Brinkerhoff and Anne M.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

“I don’t think they’re missing people who are working; they’re just categorizing them using methods they developed in 1950. On Thursday, EMSI published a nice roundup of developments since 2006. They also sent me a spreadsheet with the numbers for every occupational category going back to 2001.

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

Unlike Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, the United States has generally failed to develop widely accepted skills standards for particular sectors. public workforce-development system do. Boston-based SkillWorks , founded in 2001, has placed more than half of the 500 displaced workers it has trained in new jobs.

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How HR and Judges Made It Almost Impossible for Victims of Sexual Harassment to Win in Court

Harvard Business Review

When a case does manage to reach the legal system, courts will often side with a company due to the mere presence of an official policy, regardless of whether the policy is actually effective in addressing harassment or abuse. decided by a federal trial court in New York in 2000 and affirmed by a federal appeals court in 2001.