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Women-Centric HR Policies Pay Dividends for Companies

HR Digest

The 2018 Global Gender Gap Index finds that women have reached 68 percent parity overall, leaving a gap of 32 percent. Without the support of the leadership and higher up executives in the organization, HR can only pay lip service to inclusion and equality. Objectives and policies of metrics with clear time frames can be implemented.

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MFG of South Dakota: Trying To Do Some Good in the World

N2Growth Blog

MFG of South Dakota is a subsidiary of the Molded Fiber Glass Companies (MFG), a leader in the field of reinforced plastics and composites, serving diverse markets with a variety of composite material systems and processes. The company was to close by February 15, 2018. In fact, that’s only the beginning of the story.

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The Competitive Ecosystem: Thinking Ahead to Interconnectedness

Leading Blog

From internet-enabled vending machines in 1982 to traffic lights in 2018. In December 2018, Larry Page, the cofounder of Google and CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, attended a gathering of about 200 of the country’s top CEOs in New York. All of this requires thinking many steps ahead. They clearly get it. Think ahead.

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Employees Demand Employers Become More Sustainable

The Horizons Tracker

Transport is currently responsible for around 27% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, and the healthcare workers are hoping to encourage their employer to adopt more cycling-friendly policies among various other sustainability initiatives. Sustainability leadership.

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Married BlackRock executive fired for failing to disclose office romance

HR Digest

In 2018, BlackRock held a meeting of its global executive committee, a group of about 20 of the company’s senior-most executives, which included both Smith and Wiseman, where Fink discussed the conduct of senior management employees and how they would be held to a higher standard of ethics and conduct. He was earlier with Times Warner.

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Looking Ahead: The Biggest HR Trends in 2020

HR Digest

The HR trends of 2020 will see the talent market evolving with recruitment going hi-tech , companies going for upskilling and reskilling. They will have to combine the role of sourcing, marketing, and strategizing. Those who do not use social and digital strategies to market the company and dive deep for talent will be left behind.

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Five No-Cost Tips for Improving Employee Engagement

The Center For Leadership Studies

And, in today’s tight job market, you don’t want to find yourself short-staffed. Many companies tout an “open door” policy. The percentage of actively disengaged (miserable) employees is at its lowest point since 2000 (13%, according to a 2018 Gallup poll ). Unfortunately, low employee engagement leads to higher turnover.

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