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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

Amidst all the revenue numbers and share valuations that companies wear as a badge of honor, the concept of employee relationship management has emerged as another undeniable sign of a successful organization. The UAW is also set to repeat history against Detroit’s Big Three automotive companies if their demands are not met.

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Pain VS Gain: How to Best Motivate Buyers to Buy

The Empowered Buisness

It’s a bad story: “The last guy who managed our money lost 40% of our portfolio. The following example comes from coaching a Mazda/ VW automotive dealership sales team. Dan is also the author of 5 books, including the #1 business best-seller, Sales Autopsy (Kaplan, 2006). The buyers respond by sharing a story.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. In part 2, employees rated the best-of-the-best ideas and senior management committed to implement the top 35. In IBM's 2006 jam, the company assembled 150,000 people from 104 countries and 67 client companies.

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The Defining Elements of a Winning Culture

Harvard Business Review

Rewards, development, and other talent-management practices are in sync with the underlying drivers of performance; Accountable and owner-like. When Alan Mulally became CEO at Ford in 2006, the company operated in regional silos. Our research revealed seven of these: Honest. Take Ford Motor Company.

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How Economists Got Income Inequality Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Could managers, like smart shoppers at the market, have chosen to employ more automated machinery instead of workers? How could numerous workers replace computer-controlled tools and still achieve the precise tolerances required of modern automotive technology? Of course not. They had no idea how to.

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CEOs Must Engage All Stakeholders

Harvard Business Review

billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43 Local Motors CEO Jay Rogers has not only built engagement platforms that enable crowdsourcing of automotive design while creating personalized experiences of building your own car, but its business model also enables creation of more local jobs. for Spain's financial sector.

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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business Review

However, new tariffs or more-restrictive rules of origin would likely only fall on a few industries, such as the automotive sector. Most Mexico country managers believe one of the following scenarios is likely: A long period of populist-driven uncertainty.