HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

There’s a global movement happening right now that is empowering HR professionals to elevate their voice and strategic contribution to the company in building a better workplace. we’re committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive company and culture. Tracy Layney: At LS&Co., At LS&Co.,

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Apple, Microsoft, and Google are the foremost companies in the world. Re-allocating burdens, from women who aspire to the companies and industries that would employ them, and adoption by those companies of specific programs, is what my book is all about. Tech, for example, has been unable to support women at any level.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

People analytics is how companies collect and analyze data regarding their employees so they can make improved decisions on workforce planning, training and development, and performance management. People analytics has helped propel HR success stories at one of the world’s most admired companies, Johnson & Johnson.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We may consider ageism at work as minor, a report from the EEOC revealed that age discrimination has a one-fifth share of all discrimination cases received by the commission in 2016. This has led to many companies trying to cut costs and tightening their belts, which has translated into layoffs. ADOPT FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.

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Women on Business

APRIL 17, 2012

Countries are already adopting their own laws – France, for example, has moved to give women 20% of places in the board room, and 40% in six years, while the Netherlands has made it 30% by 2016. 21% of those companies have NO women on the board. Even Italy has got in on the act. Where are we now?

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

"Workforce Skills Upgrade: A New Competitive Advantage" SAP is one of the few companies leading diversity & Inclusion, having implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade since 2017. It is the world’s first company to incorporate neurodiverse talents into its workforce. PHOTOS: SAP.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives should factor in multiple aspects of diversity, such as class and disability , as well as gender and race. Employers who exclude class from discussions about diversity and inclusion risk losing or alienating talented employees. For example, what are elite sports?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. companies and 10 Indian companies.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2016

8, 2016 for the seventh cohort of the Leveraging Military Leadership Program. The fact is that military professionals have built capabilities during their careers in essential and in-demand competencies, such as planning, problem-solving, team building, crisis management, managing diversity and dealing with ambiguity.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Whereas modern economic theory sees people as isolated individuals only seeking pure economic gain, Deming saw employees as having diverse goals and desiring to make a contribution at work. Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most pre-eminent philosophers in the world. At 89, he continues to teach and write and learn.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The business case for diversity is clear. Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. And many diversity programs fail. I asked three questions: Why do you care about diversity?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

In today’s workplace, diversity is more than just a buzzword; it’s a way to build a stronger business. At Pinterest, we understand that diverse teams yield smarter , more innovative results, which are essential in the competitive, dynamic tech industry. Setting diversity goals isn’t enough.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 10, 2020

At a firm level, this is usually translated into higher wages for employees at the most innovative firms, with new research from the London School of Economics showing that over 12 years, from 2004-2016, the typical worker in a non-innovative firm in the U.K. It is made even more so with the huge diversity in the modern workforce.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 15, 2016

I, for example, proudly break the stereotype of the reserved British person by being blunt and speaking my mind; seldom will you find me acquiescing about things I’m passionate about for the sake of English decorum. There’s no doubt that millennial talent represents a valuable asset for the continued success of many companies.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

AUGUST 28, 2023

For example, there will always be something to do: A task to complete, an objective to achieve and a goal to accomplish. Organizations are embracing diversity, striving for equity and mandating inclusion like never before. In 2016, 74% of employees were willing to support organizational change. Sixty percent of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In numerous studies , diversity — both inherent (e.g., For example, a 2009 analysis of 506 companies found that firms with more racial or gender diversity had more sales revenue, more customers, and greater profits. With so much at stake, why aren’t these companies making more headway?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

While it’s still early days (we launched this accelerator in early 2016), we believe the accelerator has scored enough successes to prove that the model can work. It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2017

The companies that think their employees’ digital IQs are unimportant are probably few and far between. After all, in just one decade the concept of “digital” has changed from a niche skill set to something that’s mandatory for virtually all blue-chip companies. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Our approaches, we think, can be helpful to other companies working to address this imbalance. In 2015, we conducted a workforce analysis that revealed a significant shortage of women in leadership at our company. We held our own feet to the fire by sharing our findings with leaders and employees in 2016. We went all-in.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2015

It’s a collection of 101 original short stories from an incredibly diverse group of people from 20 countries around the world. It should be complete and on bookshelves in the Fall of 2016. I started my own company. When I wrote the book I had a full time job as Director of Consumer Research at the Procter & Gamble Company.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

While the “Internet of Things” and cloud computing have been useful in both internal and external communications and document sharing, solutions like these are task-specific or so complex they create more disorder in an already mixed collection of diverse applications and shared services. As companies profit, they can offer more products.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

They recognize the value of inclusion and diversity and believe it’s the right thing to aspire to. The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias. Take, for example, the hiring process. Diversity, on the other hand, spurs innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

There’s a growing skepticism about whether unconscious bias training is an effective tool to meet corporate diversity goals. Critics of such training contend that it doesn’t visibly move the needle on diversity numbers, and can even backfire. Clearly, not all trainings are equally good — and none are a silver bullet.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Most companies see investor relations as a one-way street. Yet investors can be a powerful strategic resource, providing not only capital but also less-biased insight into the threats and opportunities that a company encounters. Heini Wehrle/BIA/Minden Pictures/Getty Images. What he heard was uncomfortable.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

VP of Human Resources: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can get access to a large, diverse talent pool.”. In the examples I provided earlier I wrote “$XMM” or “X%” to serve as a placeholder. Before founding his own company, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Co.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In fact, 94% of the senior executives who responded to a recent global survey conducted by our firm, Strategy&, said that growth was a priority for their companies. A few companies, however, do succeed in growing year after year. In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

For example, an introvert may want to try her hand at a sales role, where research shows that extraverts are more likely to perform well. Apple and Microsoft are good examples of companies keeping their leaders in learning mode. Stretch assignments were used 76% of the time by the companies surveyed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

We believe these same measures can be successfully adopted and adapted by other companies in pharma and other sectors that seek to avert, or reverse, innovation stagnation. Roivant was addressing some sobering realities: In 2016, only 22 new drugs were approved by the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

This was painfully obvious to us while reading the newly released diversity and inclusion report from a large Silicon Valley company: Its 19 pages never specifically address Asian Americans. demographic — more highly educated, for example, and with higher median incomes than any other racial group. of the U.S. population.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 6, 2016

In addition to building fitness and wellness programs into their cultures,top companies are also recognizing the impact of purpose on the emotional wellbeing of their employees (and, ultimately, their bottom line). Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. But it’s not only physical action that makes a difference.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. ” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. Is there a framework that might assist you to tackle the CEO appraisal task?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Prominent recent examples of the latter include Apple and Electrolux hiking their prices by 20% and 10%, respectively. The Canadian dollar, for example, depreciated 25% between 2013 and 2016, yet Canada’s trade balance remained virtually unchanged. Thus uncertainty is increasing in diverse ways well beyond the UK.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. Upskilling need not be a path out of the company or industry, but a means of advancing within it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. For the moment, this is good news for those companies still experimenting or piloting AI (41%).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

Many companies have soared on the wings of radical ideas, from Polaroid’s instant camera to the sharing economy of firms like Airbnb. In 2016, two decades after (barely) surviving the ire of locals to become a three-Michelin-star destination, Osteria secured the top spot on the list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Netflix’s global growth is a big factor in the company’s success. This is a remarkable achievement for a company that was only in the U.S. internet companies have scaled internationally, of course (Facebook and Google are two obvious examples). before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015.

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