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Essential HR Strategies for Managing Gig Workers Effectively

HR Digest

This shift highlights the critical role of Human Resource (HR) strategies in managing gig workers effectively, considering their increasing prevalence across industries. This includes the adoption of new talent acquisition strategies, onboarding processes, and performance management systems tailored for short-term and flexible roles.

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Investing In People Builds Resilience Against The Covid Recession

The Horizons Tracker

The risk is that when faced with the intense pressure an external shock, such as a recession, places upon managers, they can be tempted to take short cuts, reduce costs to the bone, and fundamentally break these implicit contracts, both through reducing pay and benefits, but also shortchanging employees in a variety of ways.

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How Online Job Hunting Can Make Inequality Worse

The Horizons Tracker

The Matthew Effect is a phenomenon commonly seen in the online world, as tools that ostensibly should lower inequality by giving all people access to fantastic resources, end up benefiting the better off because they have the willingness and ability to better capitalize on these tools.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the findings of an extensive research undertaking involving over 80,000 managers in over 400 companies – the most comprehensive analysis of employee engagement done in the world. Human Resource Champions (1996). 8) Anchor the Changes in Corporate Culture.

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. And it’s one that stems from a very human problem in most big organizations. It seems we’re all racing to get more entrepreneurial. A Different Approach.

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How to Select the Right Freelancer for the Work

Harvard Business Review

The benefits are compelling: increased flexibility, speed, and innovation as well as cost management. Too often leaders bring in the wrong external colleagues to save cost or time, and the individuals recruited lack the experience or talent to achieve the level of innovation or impact required.

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Corporate Wellness Programs Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

(You can use this free tool we created to replicate this analysis in your own organization.). So it was no surprise that the American Journal of Health Promotion published a meta-analysis by people at the University of Tasmania who concluded that wellness has saved money. Here’s some more evidence.