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Hiring the Best People – You’ve got it all wrong!

HR Digest

During the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC), BCG and the European Association for People Management surveyed 3,400 executives, including 90 senior human resources leaders in more than 30 countries, to see how they were responding. Start by benchmarking your current hiring processes. Casting a wide net. Keep it real.

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Design Your Employee Experience as Thoughtfully as You Design Your Customer Experience

Harvard Business Review

In its 2016 Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, the firm showed that companies that excel at customer experience have one-and-a-half times as many engaged employees as customer experience laggards do. Improving customer experience is often a top business priority, but what about employee experience?

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How Deloitte Made Learning a Game

Harvard Business Review

billion business by 2016, and 70 percent of Global 2000 businesses will be managing at least one "gamified" application or system by 2014. Benchmark what your peers in similar organizations are doing with gamification and understand what works and what does not work. The technology research firm Gartner , Inc.

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Recruitment Tips to Reduce Hiring Cost For Cash Strapped Businesses

HR Digest

A study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Human Capital Benchmarking Report , says that average cost per hire can be somewhere in the vicinity of $4,129 and it can take up to 42 days to find the right person. The training report says that in 2016, employees spent an average of 47.6

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INTERVIEW: Philip Morris International’s Charles Bendotti on Emerging Contemporary Workplace Culture

HR Digest

We’re completely changing our ways of working; our mission has been redefined; we’re innovating every day and there is only one road map or benchmark: to achieve our smoke-free vision. In 2012 he was named Vice President, Human Resources Asia, a position he held until December 2016, and then Senior Vice President, Human Resources.