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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. While it can feel like a localized issue, such market changes are just as possible in U.S. industries and it emphasizes the importance of the retention process in HR.

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If Your Business isn’t Agile, You Won’t Have a Future. It’s That Simple

Great Leadership By Dan

Tiny niche players can emerge from nowhere to take the market or make expensively researched products obsolete overnight. Benchmarking visits by groups of peer leaders to companies in other markets, to share issues and developments, are on the increase.

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The Office Christmas Party and Legal Liability

HR Digest

Gender equality, workplace behavior and ethics, and stringent human resource policies and cases of sexual harassment have rendered the infamous ‘50s and 60s gatherings largely obsolete. Do not insist on plus one or restrict participation based on sexual orientation of the employee. Alcohol consumption. Social Media.

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Praising Customers for Ethical Purchases Can Backfire

Harvard Business Review

” These customer-praising marketing messages are part of a broader trend in “corporate societal marketing,” which aim to emphasize companies’ social efforts to consumers. We conducted six studies on diverse samples with over 450 participants, from undergraduate students to working adults.

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The Tech Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2015

Harvard Business Review

It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem. Our 2015 trends offer great opportunity – along with some unusual new challenges – for managers in all industries.

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

In retrospect, if I had to write it again, I’d include a section or chapter on ethics. The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Ethics Information & technology Innovation' but sometimes, they will.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate. Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Marketing’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s. Access to global markets.

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