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Employee Recognition: Why It’s So Important and How to Do It

Chart Your Course

Human resources firm Bersin found in a 2012 study that 87 percent of companies utilize tenure-based employee recognition programs, despite research showing these methods are outdated. In 2013, a TechRepublic and ZDNet survey found that 62 percent of companies already had or will launch some form of BYOD program by the end of that year.

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Why Social Networks Still Haven’t Cracked the Job Search Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

On the face of it, that seems to be two entirely different markets, with Facebook at Work playing in the workplace productivity market (competing with the likes of Microsoft Office, Webex , and project management software) while LinkedIn is part of the headhunting industry. After all, Facebook’s $7.87

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What Amazing Bosses Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

Yet in today’s rapidly evolving, 24/7 workplaces, it’s not always clear what managers should do to create the most satisfying work experiences and the happiest employees. If you supervise others, make sure you do the following: Manage individuals, not teams. But this is also the manager’s responsibility.

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Employee Engagement Articles

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Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. For Majority of Workers, Vacation Days Go Unused Boston Globe, December 2013. Gallup’s Workplace Jedi on How to Fix Our Employee Engagement Problem Fast Company, June, 2013. Economical Employee Engagement Human Resource Executive Online, January 2011.

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Rehiring Retirees as Consultants Is Bad Business

Harvard Business Review

A scientist or engineer would retire from the organization, wait the mandatory six months, and then field a call from a former manager with an offer to re-engage. For one thing, at GEGRC, internal analysis predicted a potential tsunami of retirements hitting the two top technical levels between 2008 and 2013.

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If the Board Monitors the Company, Who Monitors the Board?

Harvard Business Review

By 2013, that fixed portion had dropped from 63 to 16 percent while the incentive fraction soared from 17 to 66 percent. With institutional investor prodding, boards have thus become far more effective monitors of management than they were a decade ago. a working partnership with top management.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. That helped account managers focus their pitch on the client’s business issues and build rapport. And that really is on the backs of marketing.”

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