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Leaders Beware: Avoid These Recognition Hazards

The Practical Leader

We felt like pieces of equipment or just another set of assets — human resources — wrapped in skin. ” And they’re quickly turned off by what comes across as “according to company policy, you’re due for a compliment.” Tinsel and Trinkets. Clumsy Coaches.

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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

Amidst their country’s tech talent shortage, HP Indonesia is doing its best to focus on its employee retention instead of acquisition efforts, according to Human Resources Online. The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030.

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Give Your Organization a Work-Life Vision

Harvard Business Review

More and more companies are acknowledging the importance of work-life balance, at least as far as official policy goes. Because, unfortunately, policies aren’t worth much in the absence of supporting culture. Investment banking industry: this is your culture speaking. So why doesn’t it feel like we’ve made that much progress?

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The Most Desirable Employee Benefits

Harvard Business Review

According to Glassdoor’s 2015 Employment Confidence Survey, about 60% of people report that benefits and perks are a major factor in considering whether to accept a job offer. The survey also found that 80% of employees would choose additional benefits over a pay raise.

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The Future of Human Work Is Imagination, Creativity, and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Recently, the CEO of Deutsche Bank predicted that half of its 97,000 employees could be replaced by robots. One survey revealed that “39% of jobs in the legal sector could be automated in the next 10 years. It seems beyond debate: Technology is going to replace jobs, or, more precisely, the people holding those jobs.

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. That''s 224 million women impacting the global economy — and this survey counts only 67 of the 188 countries recognized by the World Bank.

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Despite Quotas, There's Rough Road Ahead for Women in Europe

Harvard Business Review

And, of course, we all remember Deutsche Bank's CEO Josef Ackermann's infamous remark that appointing more women to the company's board would make it "prettier and more colorful.". In 2010, with Saadia Zahidi of the World Economic Forum, we surveyed 600 heads of human resources at the world's largest employers in 20 countries.