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How Employee Feedback May Have Prevented Deadly Meningitis Outbreak

Great Leadership By Dan

While it is the only location implicated in the widespread contamination in 2012, ex-employees of Ameridose, a drug-manufacturing organization that has some of the same owners of the NECC, have come forward with some shocking claims. And 37 people would still be alive.

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Leading HR: Harnessing Social Power

LDRLB

Human Resource (HR) Departments are often seen as the enforcers of the organization; the unbendable glue that protects it from litigation and unscrupulous employees. Galbraith also wrote that “the long-term human resources role is to build social capital by creating richly connected interpersonal networks across the organization.”

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Pre-Employment Assessments

Coaching Tip

In its 2012 CEO Challenge report, The Conference Board identified the top two business issues CEOs care about right now: innovation and human capital. High-quality pre-employment assessments reduce two critical forms of risk--risk of poor new-hire quality, and risk of indefensible selection practices.

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Leading HR: Harnessing Social Power

LDRLB

Human Resource (HR) Departments are often seen as the enforcers of the organization; the unbendable glue that protects it from litigation and unscrupulous employees. Galbraith also wrote that “the long-term human resources role is to build social capital by creating richly connected interpersonal networks across the organization.”

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Complimentary Resource – Get the Right People: 9 Questions for Getting the Best Hires

Strategy Driven

When it comes to hiring, it’s all about quality, not quantity. And as many companies have already learned, quality hiring is now mandatory. High-quality candidates are getting harder and harder to find. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Complimentary Resource – Recruitment Technology.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. By June of 2012 we were close to 100.

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How the U.S. Army Personalized Its Mental Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. So during initial rollout from May 2012 through February 2014, we examined 80,000 BHDP surveys in four military-treatment facilities. Prior to the introduction of BHDP, it was challenging to examine quality of PTSD care in the Army. Insight Center.