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Holiday Compliance Policies to Sweeten the Holiday Season

HR Digest

The holiday spirit is a contagious one and when it takes over the workplace, it becomes important to also spare a moment for holiday compliance and safety amidst all the planning. If you’re starting your holiday planning early, let’s look at some holiday compliance and safety strategies to keep your employees safe and satisfied.

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Why More Hospitals Should Prioritize Cultural Competency

Harvard Business Review

Fortunately, there are simple, even obvious improvements that hospitals and medical professionals can make to improve care for patients like Janice. Health care professionals should consider the following practices that top hospitals are using to boost the cultural competency of the care they provide. Insight Center.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

In contrast, 70% of respondents think their boards have effective processes for staying current on the company; 69% for compliance; 66% for financial planning; and 55% for risk management — although we should note that managing risks is a crucial consideration when pursuing innovation. How Boards Can Foster Innovation.

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More of Us Are Working in Big Bureaucratic Organizations than Ever Before

Harvard Business Review

In some sectors, like health care and higher education, the bureaucratic class has grown even faster. Who else is going to meet all those new compliance requirements around diversity, risk mitigation and sustainability? A similar trend can be found in other OECD countries. in 2001 to 16% in 2015.

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Negotiation Strategies for Doctors — and Hospitals

Harvard Business Review

In these and many other interfaces within our health care system, the limitation is neither incompetence nor ill intent, but rather a dearth of negotiation skills and acumen. As anyone involved in the health care system knows, hospitals and health professionals are faced with this question every day.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g.,

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The Other Women's Movement: Factory Workers in the Developing World

Harvard Business Review

Compensation and benefits that allow them to excel at work and reap maximum benefits, such as health care and childcare, and access to financial incentive programs like pensions. In the corporate arena, compliance systems need to be revised through the lens of gender.