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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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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). In the book, he focuses on the importance of “systems thinking” to help transform a business into a “learning organisation.” Human Resource Champions (1996). By Jim Collins. ” 10. By John Whitmore. By David Ulrich.

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

Building Personal Strength

Instead, we evolved our company into a human resource development product business. Our flagship product since 1994 has been a breakthrough highly customizable multi-purpose web-based feedback survey system called 20/20 Insight GOLD. Brinkerhoff and Anne M.

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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

When the economy turned down first in the recession of 2001 and then massively so in the Great Recession starting in 2008, unemployed candidates flooded employers with applications, and companies had no choice but to use software to process and screen them. Hiring Human resources Information & technology' How is that possible?

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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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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.