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Employee Turnover – The Hidden Cost

Chart Your Course

percent in October 2009 to 3.1 Additionally, companies with high turnover of skilled employees, such as health care workers and hi-tech positions, may have to wait some time to fill that vacant spot. Department of Labor’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Report , the number of job openings (around 3.6 percent this September.

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Advocacy to Shift Culture

Women on Business

Categories : Career Development , Female Executives , Leadership , Success Stories , Uncategorized , Women On Business Practical Organizational Development Consulting- Human Capital Development, Leadership Development, Inclusion, Advancement of Women and Executive Coaching. Bennett said: [link] [.]

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A Good Bye with Humanity

Persuasive Powerhouse

The words we use in the workplace make it difficult to be, and treat others as, human. These include “human resources&# , “human capital&# , and “talent management&#. We need to use the words that touch the heart, and to stay in touch, even at work, at what it means to express our humanity.

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The Business School Tuition Bubble

Harvard Business Review

Initial apprehensions were expressed at least as early as 2009 in places like The Economist and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Third, I heard that two of our graduates are presently working in low-skill jobs. My colleagues refer to this as the Growth Model (although it seems more an aspiration than a plan).

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What You Might Not Know About the Cuban Economy

Harvard Business Review

After 2009, the Cuban economy really didn’t recover. When you put all these pieces together around education and health care, it’s clear that Cuba is likely a champion of investment in the development of human capital—but for the last 50 years it has an extremely low economic return on this investment.

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The Traits of Socially Innovative Companies

Harvard Business Review

In the course of our research, we have found that some human capital-intensive industries are more inherently receptive to social innovation than others. Businesses that require professionals with skills in high demand are virtually required to embrace the preferences of the next generation.

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Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported on Google’s algorithm that crunched data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories to determine which employees are most likely to quit, and more recently Google was lauded for pioneering the use of big data to predict employee turnover. Predictive Analytics in Practice.