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Employee Retention Strategies Go Beyond Competitive Salaries

HR Digest

The SHRM study also found that 62 percent of employees reported health care/medical benefits as important job satisfaction components, and 41 percent valued defined contribution plans like 401(k). Another employee retention example is paying attention to an employee’s career projections.

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10 Companies Offering Work from Home

HR Digest

60 per cent were ready to go even part-time if it did not affect their career prospects too much. From project leaders to software engineer to medical writers; the employment opportunities are diverse. UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is a health care company based in Minnesota. Rackspace Inc. Intuit Inc. Anthem Inc.

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Fixing the Gender Imbalance in Health Care Leadership

Harvard Business Review

As of 2011, organizations must have received at least Silver Awards to qualify for National Institute for Health Research Funding. The Future of Health Care. As the career paths available in medicine have broadened, the career profiles of those who get promoted have not commensurately expanded. Insight Center.

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3M’s SVP of HR Kristen Ludgate on a Better Way to Attract Top Talent

HR Digest

For example, before launching a new performance review system this year – dubbed Performance Everyday and hinged on our culture elements – we used crowdsourcing and other tools to hear directly from 3Mers about how to best improve our approach. . How is 3M responding to the COVID-19 crisis? Would you call it more analytical or intuitive?

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When Health Care Providers Look at Problems from Multiple Perspectives, Patients Benefit

Harvard Business Review

The care team ultimately found him a temporary rehabilitation facility where he recovered for two weeks until he was ready to go home. While diverse perspectives and approaches to care are important, if they are not managed appropriately, they can cause misunderstandings, bias decision making, and get in the way of the best care.

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Identifying Root Causes Beats Quick Fixes Every Time

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Among the popular reactions to the problems is forced diversity. President Kennedy introduced the concept of Affirmative Action in 1961 as a way to force diversity and end discrimination in all areas of society. And we can’t fix diversity by decrees and platitudes. It is a profile.

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What’s Holding Women in Medicine Back from Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Evidence shows that women in academic medicine experience greater challenges finding mentors and sponsors than men, and that this gap likely contributes to career disparities. System-wide policies that disadvantage women. These disparities are terribly disappointing, to say the least. Institute family-friendly policies.