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Employee Turnover – The Hidden Cost

Chart Your Course

According to The Society for Human Resource Management, only 33 percent of businesses track employee turnover, which means 67 percent of businesses are missing out on a huge source of savings and growth. The cost to replace new staff can be as high as 60 percent of an employee’s annual salary, SHRM reports.

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Possibility Maximizer: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S. License. .   After illustrating the clear benefits of using checklists to prevent simple errors, Gawande goes on to describe how to implement them into your professional life.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

Along with a bunch of other, more headline -grabbing numbers , the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning that 14.4 What about “ The Rise of the Supertemp ” that Jody Greenstone Miller and Matt Miller reported in HBR in 2012? million Americans were self-employed in January. Of those, 9.2 million were incorporated.

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Moneyball and the Talent Mismatch Facing Business

Harvard Business Review

Annually, my firm ManpowerGroup conducts a global Talent Shortage Survey [pdf] , and remarkably, from 2010 to 2011, the percentage of employers in the U.S. reporting difficulty filling jobs jumped from 14% to 52%. But the fact is that these employers do report a "lack of available talent." million open jobs.

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Top Five Factors That Drive Employee Loyalty

Eric Jacobson

Monday, August 30, 2010 Top Five Factors That Drive Employee Loyalty A 2010 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management shows that job security is what matters most to employees. Dont limit your time for only your direct reports. And, having that job security helps to keep employees loyal.

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Large Employers Are Key to Reforming Health Care

Harvard Business Review

An example of this is the Bree Collaborative , a multi-stakeholder collaborative created by the Washington State legislature in 2011 “to provide a mechanism through which public and private health care stakeholders can work together to improve quality, health outcomes, and cost effectiveness of care.”

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New Thinking About Employee Retention

Eric Jacobson

For example: Traditional Thinking : Human Resources-driven programs like pay and recognition are essential for retention. Dont limit your time for only your direct reports. One section compares traditional thinking versus new ways to think about retention and the vital role supervisors play in retaining employees.

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