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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently (1999). By Patrick M.

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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. The Agile Manifesto written by a collection of 17 bright minds in 2001 , gave rise to a collection of values to guide software development in an agile, adaptive manner.

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

Harvard Business Review

The few who do are often confronted with dismissive complaint handlers who treat their experiences as interpersonal problems or instances of poor management rather than sexual harassment. decided by a federal trial court in New York in 2000 and affirmed by a federal appeals court in 2001. Consider the case of Leopold v. Baccarat, Inc.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

Here are the occupational categories that have seen the biggest declines in self-employment since 2001: These numbers stem from data collected by the Census Bureau in the American Community Survey , a rolling census of about three million people a year that the House of Representatives voted in 2012 to defund (the Senate didn’t concur).

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We Can Now Automate Hiring. Is that Good?

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately, the emphasis on cost-cutting has shifted managers’ attention away from the value they should be creating from these new latest hiring practices—and this is where the future of hiring lies. One bad way has been to screw down the requirements on the existing applicant tracking system to screen out all but a few candidates.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S.

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