Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Turnover can cost up to 200% of an employee’s annual salary , depending on the role. 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. That’s expensive for business.

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Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Exhaust resources that don’t cost first and at least come up to “Dummy&# level on each initiative that you manage.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Creating better outcomes at reduced cost. Our objective was to better understand how the experiences of women working at Lilly differed from those of men — and more specifically, to identify and remove barriers to career growth so we could increase the representation of women in leadership.

Positioning 10

Positioning Leadership Health Care Diversity 10

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Do you participate in it? Seek balanced two-way conversations that give each participant the opportunity to take part. Resist, at all costs, any temptation to participate in idle gossip or rumour mongering. Do you encourage it? Or, do you choose not to involve yourself in idle talk? I just can’t handle it.

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Participative Blog Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 44

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

At the same time, employees are just as stressed about the growing skills gap, Accenture research shows, and most of them are unclear about which skills they need to advance their careers. Designing more flexible career paths allows companies to easily deploy people to different roles where their skills are in demand.

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Skills Survey Human Resources Document 14

You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 8, 2010

The Hospital Human Resources Department had changed its name to The Employee Engagement Department. Each time I see that sign, I wonder what they might be doing differently now that they weren’t doing when they were called The Human Resources Department. And it started me thinking. Did they feel more energized and valued?

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Survey Human Resources Blog Learning-by-Doing 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

By “total health” we mean a culture that’s supportive of career, emotional, financial, physical and social well-being – not just an occasional road race. A workplace health promotion program cannot be imposed on workers as yet another management cost-containment initiative. Paying people to change their habits.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Human Resources can tell you if your company has a competency model or career ladder, which describes the most important knowledge, skills, and attributes for a given career path. You take three risks when you depend on formal courses for nourishment. Here’s how: First, decide on a skill you want to develop.

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Learning-by-Doing Skills Goal Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Webb’s hardcore perspective poses an existential challenge to most organizations’ views of human resources. I’ve seen it happen, and careers ended when it did. But customer service and leadership training that only enhances rather than transforms capabilities and skills doesn’t buy very much.

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In our research, recently published in the journal Human Resource Management, we found that performance evaluation schemes based on peer comparison can encourage unethical behavior. Recently, the scenario continued, Sam had noticed that he had a big trading loss on one of the accounts, costing his bank $100,000.

Ethics 14

Ethics Comparison Participative Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. Data compiled from the network surveys I give my participants shows that we are still not using networks to our best advantage. That’s fine if an executive is looking to move elsewhere, as some of my participants were.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Human Resources" have changed when most of the people who create value for your organization are neither hired nor paid by you. And as we discussed in part two of the series, shared purpose allows many communities to engage with you — without you having to invest resources in controlling their actions. Purpose does.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

It’s not just that certain schools are known for excellence in a given field or offer coursework and training relevant to a specific career path. The career services director of a top MBA program I interviewed put it best when she said, “Firms are scrambling for diversity. An Expensive Status Quo.

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EPS Diversity Banking Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

This phenomenon is what I call the fissured workplace , the cracks upon which today’s economy largely rest, and it leaves so many without fair wages, a career path, or a safe work environment. Firms typically started outsourcing activities like payroll, publications, accounting, and human resources.

Compliance 9

Compliance Supply Chain Hotels Insurance 9

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

The flip side of this is– we presume that ‘democracy’ is (as Martha would say) “a good thing&# , so it might be more appealing than other initiatives of employee/member involvement and participation.

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System Blog Diversity Operations 43