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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Phrases like ‘Don’t rock the boat’ or ‘It’s not in the budget’ often serve to halt innovation and maintain the status quo. RationalWiki.

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FTC Clamps Down on Noncompete Agreements for Lower-Level Employees

HR Digest

The companies in question this time are Prudential Security and Prudential Command, both affiliated companies based in Taylor, Michigan. ” The FTC order requires the companies to keep records and report on their compliance efforts for a number of years to help the agency ensure that the ban on noncompetes is being honored.

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How To Win With People Analytics

HR Digest

Moreover, 32% of departments in tech companies and others are redesigning functions using AI to streamline for versatility and figuring out how to best integrate the experiences gathered from worker feedback and innovation. The notable industrialists Taylor and the Gilbreths formulated plans to understand worker productivity.

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Stop Trying to Control People or Make Them Happy

Harvard Business Review

It has been more than 100 years since Frederick Taylor, an American engineer working in the steel business, published his seminal work on the principles of scientific management. Yet managers continue to follow Taylor’s “hard” approach — creating new structures, processes, and systems — when they need to address a management challenge.

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Define Your Organization's Habits to Work More Efficiently

Harvard Business Review

In the discussion that followed my post on balancing compliance and autonomy, I learned that there is great richness and breadth in the reasoning behind how organizations have defined standard ways of doing things. Must Do" Procedures. Rather, standard work can help people do their jobs consistently and reliably, and improve how they do it.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Trust is a common factor in the cost-benefits analysis, compliance with authority, or loyalty to leaders hypotheses. Although most people do not have the personal magnetism of an Oussama Bin-Laden or a Martin Luther King, there is a subset of people who can engender a strong sense of loyalty in others. Technology and its role in travel 2.0