Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When noted author and celebrated raconteur Peter Jensen was editing articles for Sunset magazine, the Building Editor brought eight hats to work one day. Online retailer Zappos, headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, has a huge reputation as a fun place to work. “We show up as ourselves. We’re authentic, prepared, we listen, and have fun.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. More retail purchases are moving online, and a growing number of manufacturers now sell to consumers directly, cutting out retailers entirely. It’s either adapt to the new environment or step aside and make room for a competitor who can.

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 22, 2018

For instance, if a retail sales position in your area typically gets a dollar an hour over minimum wage, you will be figuratively shooting yourself in the foot if you offer less. Here is another good article called, “ How do you get the best people to join your team and help you grow your startup.”

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 29, 2012

For example, flexible scheduling, while often unheard of in retail, is standard at the stores. .” Manager Autonomy and Flexible Scheduling : Wegmans empowers its managers to work creatively and autonomously with its staff to meet their needs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

With Black Friday behind us, Cyber Monday upon us, and retail's make-or-break season in high gear, many of us are interacting more than usual with front-line service employees. And since it's also HBR's 90th birthday , some of us are thinking about the articles that have had the greatest impact over the years.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Bureau of Labor Statistics , the two largest occupations in the United States are retail salesperson and cashier. Retail employees typically receive their work schedules one or two weeks in advance and even those schedules can change at the last minute. In 2014, the median age of a retail salesperson was 35.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

But the employee-centered way is a better way — even in low-cost retail. In my research, I’ve found that retailers using an employee-centered operations strategy, which I call the good jobs strategy , have two strategic advantages. food retailers that publicly file with the U.S. Both ways can be profitable.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2022

An examination of several years of employee and financial data from a global retailer found a substantial impact.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Rasmus has a Master’s degree in Organizational Development & Adult Learning and degrees in Philosophy and Human Resources. She has worked across a range of industries including retail, government, transport, oil and gas, and human services. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

Human resources management is all about striking a balance between encouragement, rewards, and sanctions. If your business operates in the retail sector, you should invest in sales technique training. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

There is a clear business case for investing in women’s professional development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

It has also been acquiring e-commerce niche players, including Shoebuy and outdoor gear retailer Moosejaw, and digital technology companies, such as search experts Adchemy and cloud platform OneOps. Walmart has perhaps the best physical distribution and retail network in the world. It needs to be competitive on digital channels, sure.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In industries like retail, customer service, and hospitality, entry-level turnover alone costs billions of dollars each year, based on voluntary turnover rates and annual replacement costs. The young people we surveyed worked in a wide variety of industries, including health care, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

In 1960, 11 years after he founded the company that became Circuit City, my father Sam Wurtzel was reading a book he couldn't put down: The Human Side of Enterprise , by MIT professor Douglas McGregor. McGregor was advocating for the latter approach as early as that 1957 HBR article. It was also central to how Sam built Circuit City.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

B&Q (winner of the 2006 “Age Positive Retailer of the Year” Award) says that it hires for soft skills , such as conscientiousness, enthusiasm and customer rapport, which senior workers also seem to show in abundance, while Home Depot famously looks to older store clerks for the experience-based know-how that customers demand.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Pregnancy is an event that changes otherwise stubborn purchasing habits, so retailers want to know about a pregnancy as early as possible. Human resources Information & technology Managing people' Would they be delighted or disturbed? Consider this object lesson from marketing. In the rush to ask “What can HR analytics predict?”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. But the role is becoming important in many other industries as well, such as creative arenas (for example, product design in retail) and communications.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

And many CEOs we talked to, like Owen Mahoney of Nexon, agree that the CHRO is one of the most strategic roles someone could have: “Businesses grow or die based on the quality of their people, so the human resource executive role is arguably the most strategic in the company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

Some examples of top, job-specific themes in the areas for improvement were: Delegating for project managers; Time Management/Prioritizing for a phone customer service rep; Attention to Detail/Accuracy for a software developer; Work-Life Balance for a director of human resources; and Handling Stress for a nursing manager.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

Some sample jobs included in the study were: retail cashier, customer service representative, registered nurse, sales professional, accountant, software developer, academic faculty, HR director, and physician.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The obsession with predicting who may be a future star or the next top leader has influenced academic research and human resources practices alike. But how good are we at evaluating human potential? A tech services company we know was planning to deprioritize its retail vertical, because it always made losses.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 10, 2022

In this article, we’ve compiled 5 signs you need to automate your hiring process. Hospitality and retail are notorious for their low retention rates. Of course, these workplace values make working in human resources more exciting and more rewarding than ever. Not anymore.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

retailer Tesco built detailed profiles of customers and then used these insights and a flexible supply chain to customize their products and offers. The only way it can happen: marketing, IT, operations, and human resources functions must collaborate in unprecedented ways. In a previous post , I described how U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

Factory workers, manual laborers, and workers in retail stores, restaurants, or hospitals have to be at their place of work at specific times to be productive. It’s hard to find a return-on-investment case for office space, and much harder still to find any company that makes a compelling one. Knowledge workers do not. Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

automotive, financial services, retail, telecomm, and hospitality sectors. At one 170,000-employee big box retailer, linking the feedback systems would require approvals from three different senior executives, the CMO, the chief human resources officer, and the president of retail. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

When we asked one successful online retailer “How do you compete with Amazon?” Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources. ” the response was “You don’t.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Successful companies such as Starbucks (inspired by coffeehouses in Italy) and the German online retailer Zalando (inspired by Zappos) exemplify the potential of this strategy. Cross-cultural experiences may also stimulate creativity. We tested the entrepreneurial capabilities (i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

The relentless rise of online retailers has led to deep soul searching among brick-and-mortar retailers to find ways to compete. The traditional methods of competing through convenience, assortment, and pricing are largely ineffective against online retailers who outperform brick-and-mortar retailers in these dimensions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Skunkworks often need to be protected from the business units, so that they have the freedom and resources that their ideas need to get out into the market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst. trillion in inventories held by U.S. In some industries, 3D printing is projected to reach the mainstream in three to ten years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology. This second transformation will be triggered not by regulation but by rapidly evolving technology.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

Not too long ago, our retail business identified a clear opportunity in the marketplace but recognized we’d need to increase our expert advisor capacity quickly to win. This article was published in the April 2019 issue of The HR Digest magazine. Helena Gottschling | CHRO, RBC.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

He explained why he thinks so in a recent HBR article.) At one American retailer, an autonomous ensemble of algorithms replaced the entire merchandising department. They’re analogous to autonomous resources, as opposed to human resources, departments. Data scientists here facilitate.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. Higher investment in wages does not need to come at the expense of customers and shareholders.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

For example, the Amazon Go retail store in Seattle has no cashiers or checkout lanes. Others, such as requesting customer identification information and tracking the status of a delivery are optimally done with RPA. Customers pick up their items and go, as sensors and algorithms automatically charge their Amazon account.

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