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Breaking the Glass Ceiling: How Gender is Affecting Today’s Top Companies

Chart Your Course

Despite the automotive industry being decidedly androcentric, Nitto Tires is finding a new level of inclusion and productivity. University of Amsterdam researchers conducted an experiment in which they created sales teams and randomly arranged the gender ratios throughout the process. The Importance of Balance.

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Lisa Esparza on The Road to Inclusive Excellence

HR Digest

We harness the power of cutting-edge AI tools to streamline our recruitment processes to identify talent efficiently, while enhancing the candidate experience and optimizing our hiring decisions. One of our key objectives this year is to spearhead initiatives that empower women in the automotive industry.

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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

The American automotive industry looked rock-solid. HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. Tim Robberts/Getty Images. There was a time when the American steel industry seemed invincible.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. And last year saw the first demonstration of a digital printer producing multilayer, standards-based circuit boards. 3D printing is poised to redefine global manufacturing and distribution.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Organizational awareness enables you to identify the forces in your company’s culture and processes that could drive you and others to do the wrong thing.

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Changing an Organization’s Culture, Without Resistance or Blame

Harvard Business Review

So when we faced such a challenge at Lear Corporation, a Fortune 200 automotive supplier with 136,000 employees worldwide, we knew the odds were against us. Were managers supposed to be more relaxed about expectations, more focused on the process, more forgiving when their subordinates missed deadlines? Real change is hard for anyone.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

Business drivers examined include: Building high-performance cultures; engaging employees; cultivating a customer-focused culture; creating alignment and accountability; enhancing organizational talent; building strategic partnerships and relationships, driving process innovation and driving efficiency. Wellins, Ph.D.,

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