HR Digest

MARCH 14, 2022

Lawful Compliance. Employers must keep the channels of communication open to sustain cooperation and keep employee morale high. Layoff notices must be given to employees and contain clear information on why they have been let go and what are their next steps, pertaining to pay, benefits, and last day of work.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

The underlying “why” turns out to be a key in gaining cooperation or collaboration from others. Rules and compliance procedures typically arise as a means to prevent risk of some kind, to save time or money, or to prevent waste. Then spend an equal amount of time trying to imagine what the other group is trying to accomplish and why.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 15, 2012

Beyond Management explains why the tools, rules, competition and compliance favored by management are actually disorganizing rather than empowering knowledge workers. In " Beyond Management " (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2011) author Mark Addleson explains why workers have to manage themselves and tells them how to do it. Management is dead.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

Control leads to compliance, but autonomy leads to engagement–and, in return, unleashing greatness. Being an agile and flexible leader aligns with the need for your team to be collaborative and cooperative, and it aligns and empowers teams to hold those qualities. Give them the freedom to use their talents.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

This new vista could look like more platform cooperatives, companies that grow better not bigger, a collective effort to promote positive mental health in the workplace, more quality work for more people, improving systemic inequality at work, acknowledging emotional labor that all too often goes unrecognized and unpaid, and more.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

We are here to cooperate with them in a new and more productive way. It includes men, invites men as partners to rethink what we are doing to the planet, why we continue to put work ahead of family, ahead of raising the next generation, how much is enough, what really matters. We are not here to become like our men.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. These days there is a growing emphasis on Governance and Compliance with Legislation and Regulations.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Leadership is about being a model of behaving in ways that create cooperation and collaboration. The Vietnamese name for teacher is Thay, and that moment of having “Tea with Thay” is still comforting when the business of the day begins to overtake me. Please share some of your best practices for reducing stress and renewing your spirit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

Cybersecurity isn''t just about compliance with laws and regulation — it''s about guarding businesses from the increasing dangers of persistent threats. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants a preliminary framework in place by the end of this summer, with a final set of guidelines ready to go in February 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

External standards can also be a powerful tool in support of those efforts, helping companies strengthen ethics and compliance practices by offering a clear framework for action. It also requires that the compliance function be staffed by those with the right skills, status, authority, independence, and resources.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Hence, the introduction of, say, a risk management team or a compliance unit or an innovation czar. With “Smart Simplicity,” we put the cooperating individual at the heart of the modern organization. Reinforce integrators: Foster cooperation by giving people the power and interest to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

In other words, while the specific goal and monetary incentive was new, as was the frequency of feedback, the information workers had access to about the effects of neglecting hand hygiene, and the way compliance was monitored, was not. In many of these cases, management expects the incentivized behavior to stick.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2011

But surprisingly over the years I have seen teams respond to these kinds of challenges in three basic ways (only one of which is truly collaborative): First is what I call compliance. The second response is cooperation. This is when each team member independently responds to the challenge by taking action in her own area.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

.” For instance, the UK left the EU’s European Environment Agency, but the UK Office for Environmental Protection hasn’t opened yet, therefore leaving the UK without any body designed to ensure compliance with environmental law. Ill-equipped.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Some of the worst corporate disasters of the past two decades were heralded by whistleblowers: Sherron Watkins raised the red flag internally at Enron, Cynthia Cooper let management know of major accounting problems at WorldCom, and Matthew Lee brought problems to his management team at Lehman Brothers. Barbara Chase/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

blaming subordinates for any failure), undermining cooperation, psychological safety, trust in coworkers, and the ability to admit uncertainty or mistakes. Organizations rely on cooperative teamwork to succeed. rogue traders in finance). The business case against masculinity contests.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 21, 2023

Happy and cheerful tunes have been found to boost performance, focus, and even encourage more cooperative behavior among employees. Consider Licensing Requirements Before implementing music in the workplace, it’s important to ensure compliance with music licensing regulations.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 17, 2023

.” “…in one study of about 50 manufacturing teams…teams that had a member who was disagreeable or irresponsible were much more likely to have conflict, have poor communication within the team and refuse to cooperate with one another. Fear craves power and demands compliance. Consequently, the teams performed poorly.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Surveys show that companies that optimize internal communication improve efficiency, compliance, and customer satisfaction, and have reduced risk and turnover. This is especially problematic when successful change depends on the cooperation of the workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

And when misclassification is adopted as a business strategy by some companies, it quickly undermines other, more responsible employers who face costs disadvantages arising from compliance with labor standards and responsibilities. All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2018

The downside of losing these employees can be devastating to managers and their organizations: Losing the institutional knowledge, honed skill sets, and employee trust and cooperation that have been accrued by mid-career employees is costly — to the tune of 213% of an employee’s salary in one year, in some cases.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. bribes and kickbacks).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Consider for example CFO Ric Magnuson of Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, who started out as a skeptic on the process improvement activities his company launched in 2008. In four main ways: Provide information managers and the front line can use.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

The Public/Private Cooperation We Need on Cyber Security. There have been technological advancements within the last few years to help Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) secure corporate networks against unintentional, or intentional, risky behavior by employees. Data Under Siege An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

You might assume that if social pressure forces compliance, then succeeding in getting someone to agree to a request amounts to a hollow victory. We don’t realize that a request for compliance will stimulate a positive reaction. We fail to benefit from others’ cooperation. They ask for things more readily.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Managed well, transparency can lead to the type of company most people usually have in mind when they talk about it: a safe and smart organization built on trust and cooperation. And legitimacy is exactly what is needed to maintain employee cooperation. So emphasize that your ultimate goal is learning, not compliance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

In 2005, after years of negative publicity, Nike published its list of suppliers and toughened its compliance policy, requiring subcontractors to comply with the Atlanta Agreement on child labor, international conventions on freedom to unionize, and local labor laws. By the company’s own estimate, total labor costs rose 20-30%.

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The Idolbuster

AUGUST 31, 2012

Note: agreeableness is a term in social psychology that refers to “trust, straightforwardness, altruism, compliance, modesty, and tender-mindedness.”. Journal of Personal and Social Psychology In Press [link] ; October 24, 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Over the past four decades, social psychologists, behavioral economists, and negotiation theorists have catalogued a wide variety of ways in which information can be communicated more effectively to nudge others towards collaboration and compliance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

And how do you motivate the departing colleague to cooperate? In fact, “it may be well-nigh impossible” to convince him to cooperate. She worked on government contracts and compliance issues, and she was very good at digging into details. Who should be involved? What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

If the 'West' pretends otherwise, it is certain to see more ugly incidents like the World Bank presidency fights, and the possibility that things could get much worse, up to and including a broad breakdown of institutional cooperation. But where's the evidence for convergence?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

Personality facets: Altruism, Cooperation, Modesty, Morality, Sympathy, Trust. Personality facets: Activity level, Assertiveness, Cheerfulness, Excitement-seeking, Friendliness, Gregariousness. A = Agreeableness. Low = skeptical, self-interested. High = trusting, group-oriented. N = Neuroticism (also called “Emotional stability”).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Cooperative and helping behaviors go down by over 80%. But compliance is not the same as collaboration. The data clearly demonstrate that uncontrolled virtual distance can result in unintended and unwanted effects. For example when virtual distance is relatively high: Innovative behaviors fall by over 90%. Trust declines by over 80%.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. Each has its place.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

In the German, Austrian and Scandinavian branches requests were most successful when the person showed how compliance to their request was consistent with the organisation's official rules and policies.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

This has made compliance with my no-jerk rule quite a bit easier. To do that, you need to obtain the cooperation, support, and goodwill of many people. As I have matured and learned more about both business and life, I have become less economically fearful and defensive.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Low D’s tend to be non-confrontational, low key, cooperative, and agreeable. C, the blue bar on the graphs, stands for Compliance. As a result, many students adapt their “C” (Compliance) higher in classroom. D, the red bar on the graphs, stands for Dominance. The emotion associated with high D’s is anger.

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