HR Digest

MARCH 12, 2020

Are you seeking career growth in human resources? If you want to follow a career in human resources, there are many options open to you. You can pursue the traditional role and become a human resource executive responsible for hiring, firing, onboarding, employee management, and engagement. Human Resources IT Specialist.

Career 87

Career Human Resources Outsourcing Compliance 87

HR Digest

MARCH 17, 2023

Interestingly, STEM-focused fields, such as banking, finance, mathematics, and software development, saw the most significant increase in salary disclosure. Roles in industrial engineering, chemical engineering, banking, and finance have the lowest salary visibility in job postings, advertising pay in fewer than a third of posted jobs.

Marketing 69

Marketing Chemicals Advertising Banking 69

Strategy Driven

JULY 20, 2020

Instead, management needs to set priorities, take action, and get workers behind programs. It’s a strategic effort that requires ample resources. Worker health and safety have to be absolute management priorities. Provide corresponding materials, such as this HazCom training guide to classifying and labeling chemicals.

Guidelines 80

Guidelines Chemicals Bottom-up Incentives 80

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 85 women were promoted. . Computer and information systems managers. Also known as information technology managers, such professionals devise, coordinate, implement, and analyze computer-related projects. Female IT managers earn a median annual income of $89,804.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 8, 2022

My sole purpose for publishing this piece is to share a valuable resource with you. –– Frank Sonnenberg. Because, aside from those with serious chemical imbalances, happiness is a physiological reaction, a result of the interaction between mind and body. Why Happiness Is a Choice. Guest post by Sarah Hiner. “I Yet people do it.

Chemicals 113

Chemicals Bottom-up Stress Finance 113

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

To help answer why there are not more women in the top ranks of leadership, scientists at Development Dimensions International (DDI) , the global leadership development consultancy, released two research studies aimed at finding the answers. Make sure your leaders have high-quality development plans.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Paul Zak is the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies and Professor of Economics, Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. His academic lab and companies he has started develop and deploy neuroscience technologies to solve real problems faced by real people. Under New Management.

Company 104

Company Teamwork Review Technology 104

Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

For others, adults, Buddy was a “chemically imbalanced” adult man who thinks and dresses like an elf running around through the streets of New York City. But let’s assume that Buddy is indeed an elf, developed and created by the North Pole to fill a need…to make toys.

Brand 215

Brand Press Release Discount Customer Loyalty 215

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

The Recovering Engineer

MAY 7, 2010

How to apply powerful psychological principles in a practical way to help you control your response and develop influence with others. I’ll announce it here when I’ve finished developing the content to make it a useful relationship building and conflict resolution training resource. That site should be ready soon.

Tips 198

Tips Emotional Intelligence Engineering FAQ 198

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

After the several recent catastrophic industrial accidents within the United States, including the devastating explosions at a Texas fertilizer plant and Louisiana chemical plant, StrategyDriven wanted to help industrial and utility leaders reduce the risk of similar accidents at their facilities.

White Paper 61

White Paper Industry Risk Management Chief Operating Officer 61

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. Business development. My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. by Hank Moore.

Crisis Management 79

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 79

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff. Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing. What does this mean for workforce learning and development? In particular, we see several interesting developments: Technology-supported peer learning is disrupting the old paradigm. Development, not deficiency, is motivating learning.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Not competitive threats. Not rising costs.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

CO2

JULY 11, 2012

Many contest entrants described how, in an effort to get unstuck, they developed new skills or discovered ones they weren’t aware existed. They are stories of adversity, resourcefulness, reinvention, and triumph. Gary, a manufacturing manager, complained that staff don’t give an inch. The entries below are inspirational.

Real Estate 74

Real Estate Learning-by-Doing Rogers Taylorism 74

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2012

Editor's note: This fictional Management Puzzle dramatizes a dilemma faced by leaders in real companies. Like HBR's traditional case studies, HBR.org's Management Puzzles are based on academic research into business problems. Plus our sales cycles are long, and developing cross-functional relationships at customers is a key sales task.

P&L 12

P&L Management Chemicals Case Study 12

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. In Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan challenge what you thought you knew about managing growth. How do they do it? How can the doctor get that done?

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

I've always felt, and our research proves, that well-managed conflicts can increase trust, respect, and intimacy among employees within and across teams. Hence, "bad blood" is less likely to develop between co-workers. Such benefits, though, can only be obtained by pro-actively managing the online discussion board in certain ways.

Team 15

Team Management How To Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

I first became interested when I watched a TV documentary on the Cradle-to-Cradle concept that was developed by the German chemistry Professor Michael Braungart (and ex-Greenpeace) and the US architect William McDonough. We will phase out all chemicals deemed unacceptable according to Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. 1] McKinsey & Co.,

Strategy 11

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Conversely, the business may be an “unpolished diamond” that was neglected by its former management for too long and whose value is just waiting to be unlocked. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team? Are the management team and owners prepared to abandon business as usual?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Sophisticated sales organizations now have the ability to combine, sift, and sort vast troves of data to develop highly efficient strategies for selling into micromarkets. For a micromarket strategy to work, however, management must have the courage and imagination to act on the insights revealed by this type of analysis.

B2B 14

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

invest in ongoing development of capabilities among the sales and pricing teams through training and tools. Managers often criticize sales reps for losing a deal, but rarely for pricing a deal too low, so reps learn to concede on price in order to close the deal. Bad Incentives Undercut the Best Pricing Strategies.

B2B 10

B2B Price Survey Company 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. In one room, at the behest of the two big guns of retail, sat the largest consumer product, chemical, and fragrance companies. But now they’re actively pushing the supply chain to invest better options.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. The investment industry is changing.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. Many of the new developments have to do with broadening the science underpinning additive manufacturing. Now we’re seeing much bigger stakes.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO 10

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources. Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. Find ways to value water and price carbon in all future investments.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. First, such transformations consume resources, both financial and human. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation.

Company 9

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technologys pavilion will demonstrate "industrial energy savings and the comprehensive use of resources." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

NGO 15

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

Too many knowledge workers — professionals with immense talent, experience, and drive to do meaningful work — are stifled by managers who misunderstand what effective management means. If they often get overridden by management, people quickly lose the motivation to make any decision, which severely inhibits progress.

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Since the industrial revolution, we have been able to get away with relying on natural resources to raise our standard of living. But as these resources become scarcer and more expensive, we need to find new ways to create a more sustainable environment. This was the focal point of the recent Paris Climate Summit.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Managers of the most effective teams encouraged adaptive ant colony behavior, while those of less effective innovation teams expected members to abide by rigid plans and rules. and respond to chemical signals allows these relatively simple creatures to form such complex units. These are: 1. Freedom to look for the next horizon.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

When we were aiming to close a small chemical-dependency hospital in 2013, for example, we looked hard into unmet needs in the area. Employees whose positions have been eliminated go through our Career Resource Center, where they’re trained for other open positions. Serious accountability.

Policies 8

Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8