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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. Organizations can use such phrases to curb dissent, cultivate an “us versus them” approach, and deflect responsibility. Emotion Review , 13(2), 100–110.

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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

“People problems” have several dimensions, as outlined here: talent acquisition and talent management; worker health and wellbeing; employee morale; diversity and inclusion; employee relations; compliance risk. The notable industrialists Taylor and the Gilbreths formulated plans to understand worker productivity.

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Alfie Kohn on Systems Thinking, Human Behavior and Education

Deming Institute

How do we get compliance? We [in the United States] don’t like to look at systemic explanations. If you take a systemic or structural explanation seriously, as he [Dr. Alfie, and others, are helping increase the adoption of education methods growing from the John Dewy. How do we get efficient production? And how can we meet those needs?

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How Collaboration Tools Can Improve Knowledge Work

Harvard Business Review

Frederick Winslow Taylor , regarded as the father of scientific management and one of the first management consultants in the early 1900s, believed workers were incapable of dissecting and improving their jobs. Taylor expected workers to comply with a standard set of steps defined by process experts (including Taylor himself).

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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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The Long-Term Effects of Tracking Employee Behavior

Harvard Business Review

These aren’t new questions, as anyone who’s heard of Frederick Taylor can attest. It’s no wonder that hand hygiene compliance rates can tick below 50%. ” He says his next area of research will be exploring interventions that could drive compliance rates even higher. But they’re important ones.