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The Best HR Podcasts of 2023: 9 Recommendations

HR Digest

On any fair day, the balancing act performed by the unsung heroes of a company – the human resources team (HR) , is quite overwhelming. Interweaving between a podcast and a web radio show, the Happy Hour podcast was launched in 2009.

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Why is it so darn easy to say NO?

Women on Business

What if service people were given incentives for the “yes” answers they gave to customers and were docked pay for their “no” answers? If the person says “yes” they may have to do something and then take a risk for doing it. And frankly, it seems that some service people don’t feel like they are being paid to say “yes.”

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Interns to the Rescue! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

If possible, provide some financial incentive like a small hourly rate or commission for work well-done. Make sure you say in your ad description what they need to be successful with you (eg – a computer with internet access, a nice phone voice, computer skills, etc.). I have used www.internhere.com to post my request.

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Setting Expectations On Behaviors You Value: 5 Pointers

QAspire

Incentives are most often counterproductive. Best, Tanmay Other Links to this Post Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Carnival of Human Resources — October 13, 2010 @ 5:14 pm RSS feed for comments on this post. Best, Tanmay By John Hunter , October 11, 2010 @ 4:44 pm coaching is very important.

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The Cure for the Common Corporate Wellness Program

Harvard Business Review

But human resources departments can reconfigure their offerings so they are embraced, not resented. If a financial forfeiture (whether phrased as “incentive” or “penalty”) is required to raise the participation rate or if you need an elaborate “communications plan,” it’s a threat, not an offer. Health Human resources'

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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

Incentives or other extrinsic rewards—individual bonus schemes, promises of nice offices and titles, and other tangible benefits— create transactional relationships , not deep bonds to an employer. Let’s start with what doesn’t work.

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What Employers Can Do to Accelerate Health Care Reform

Harvard Business Review

I’ve had the opportunity to participate with many large, self-insured employers in three such marketplace collaboratives: one led by Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle in 2005, another led by Intel in Portland, Oregon, in 2009, and the Robert Bree Collaborative , created by the Washington State legislature in 2011. Insight Center.