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What Impact Does Foreign Direct Investment Have On Productivity?

The Horizons Tracker

In our globalized world, it’s increasingly common for companies to invest internationally in a process known as foreign direct investment (FDI). It requires a more objective assessment to understand the effects of this strategy on the productivity of the host countries,” the researchers explain.

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GC25: Four Game Drives – and One Drive to Rule Them All

Engaging Leader

Assuming you have defined the right business objectives, the most important key for successful gamification is to target the right motivators: the drives that make people want to engage and that stimulate the right thoughts and actions to accomplish your objectives. In this episode, Jesse discusses: The Four “E.A.S.I.”

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5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Hire the Wrong Person

Great Leadership By Dan

DDI’s most recent trend research, Global Selection Forecast 2012 , tells us that only 51% of newly hired employees are confident that they’ve made the right decision to come work for you. We found that less than half of those in charge of their organization’s staffing rate their hiring processes as effective. P&H Mining, YUM!

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Five Strategies for Hiring Success

Chart Your Course

The National Association of Colleges and Employers estimates the average cost-per-hire in 2011 and 2012 was $5,100. The results were part of the NACE’s 2012 Recruiting Benchmarks Survey. The employer must create an actionable, repeatable process for screening new applicants and placing them within the business.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. Like anything that we use over and over again, the process eventually grows stale, and the results dwindle. It’s business as usual. Business moves along. We do more and produce less. In 1990, John W.

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Salty to Sweet: The Transformation of Mount Franklin Foods

Change Starts Here

Using the Balanced Scorecard methodology, the team developed a one-page strategy map, which detailed the objectives the team was trying to achieve and showed how they were connected. They also created a scorecard to measure their performance against each objective. Determination. By year-end, they had doubled it.

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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. HR can facilitate discussions and task forces for planning and next steps.

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