HR Digest

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The American Institute of Stress reported that burnout could be linked to unanticipated absenteeism, possibly costing US businesses up to $3.5 If there are tasks that far exceed what you can handle at the moment, try to be polite in expressing why you cannot say yes to it. million annually.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

He played the political game well enough to still be there but not well enough to strengthen his reputation. He had slowly lost his political clout. These nice but somewhat absentee managers can continue to survive, unchecked for decades. It may encourage them to continue in their hands-off, low control, absentee approach.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

When these conditions are in place, it will be easier for an organization to take a firm stance against corruption, especially political corruption. Organizations need to prioritize the pragmatic, absentee and ethical stakeholders. Others who had stayed away from the market (absentee) emerge. Ethics Can Be a Differentiator.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

According to a report from the Milken Institute, direct medical costs combined with ill health-induced absenteeism and "presenteeism" — which is when employees manage to show up for work but are less productive — costs American businesses more than $1.3 and absenteeism costs fall by about $2.73.". trillion per year.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In behavioral science research , certain negative emotions, stressors, and conflicts have long been associated with incidents of workplace aggression, employee turnover, absenteeism, accidents, fraud, sabotage, and espionage. Hermann , which explained foreign policy behavior by analyzing the personal characteristics of leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

And the more polluted or contaminated the environment – in a political sense – the more these parasitic personalities will thrive. Moreover, meta-analytic studies have shown significant associations between the dark triad and counterproductive work behaviors (theft, absenteeism, turnover, sabotage, etc.).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Physical, behavioral and mental health issues such as obesity, hypertension, smoking, depression, anxiety, poor sleep, and alcohol dependence can create costs for employers through higher medical claims, reduced employee productivity and performance, absenteeism, presenteeism, and short-term disability.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

What would it look like if managers were as polite and nurturing to one another and their subordinates as they are to customers? million in decreased attrition, absenteeism, and overtime, it also drove a $2 million profit increase and 34% jump in highly satisfied customers. This advice holds true at work as well.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism. Bids of applicant cities must now be presented according to a standardised template, with covenants of support from the relevant public authorities and political actors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

The key to hiring the right managers is to select candidates based on what the job requires – that is, on their ability to inspire employees, drive outcomes, overcome adversity, hold people accountable, build strong relationships, and make tough decisions based on performance rather than politics.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

The key to hiring the right managers is to select candidates based on what the job requires – that is, on their ability to inspire employees, drive outcomes, overcome adversity, hold people accountable, build strong relationships, and make tough decisions based on performance rather than politics.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

The global women''s movement in the developing world doesn''t yet reach these women, focusing instead on helping the poorest of the poor, cultivating female political leaders, and building the business acumen of female entrepreneurs. When these educational programs are offered for women through their workplace, the factories benefit, too.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

With democracy in something of a pickle in recent years, there has been an understandable desire to increase voter turnout and political engagement more generally. In states where you can request a mail-in ballot without giving a specific reason (no-excuse absentee), the voting rate was about 65%.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

Gallup has discovered links between employee engagement at the business-unit level and vital performance indicators, including customer metrics; higher profitability, productivity, and quality (fewer defects); lower turnover; less absenteeism and shrinkage (i.e., They make decisions that are based on productivity, not politics.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Lots of other actors in purchasing, distribution, and brokerage have greater incentives to keep prices high than to lower prices or choose drugs that reduce longer-term medical and business costs, like absenteeism. where some political players would cry “socialism.” But we can’t envision that happening in the U.S.,

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

Absentee leadership. Political animals rise in the corporate pecking order. Revival is not too late, but whatever you do. remember, the steps you take must be transformational, not incremental. Sick companies are never turned around by doing more of the same, better. Lack of vision. High employee turnover. Mounting inventory.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

According to many experts who wax poetic about employee engagement, democratic workplaces also experience less absenteeism and turnover, two things that are mightily expensive in more traditional workplaces. American politics) are (again, imho) far from perfect. So, what we do know of democracy is limited and maybe in parts wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

“Wages are not, in fact, like the price of butter,” Paul Krugman wrote in March, “and how much workers are paid depends as much on social forces and political power as it does on simple supply and demand.” He did have a problem with absenteeism.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

However, this new study posits that the implications of this issue extend far beyond the realm of politics. The various manifestations of democratic erosion encompass a range of practices, including the purging of eligible voters, restrictions on absentee voting, and the manipulation of congressional districts through partisan gerrymandering.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

It’s been a while since I’ve weighed-in on the political front, and with the recent failure of the Budget Super Committee, I thought it would be an interesting time to examine the difference between statesman and politician. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Despite the demonization of the ACA on the campaign trail, there are elements of the law that are quite popular across the political spectrum. The policy and politics promise to be nettlesome at best, and many experts are weighing in. For businesses, the costs of health-related absenteeism run into the billions nationally.

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