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Traditional male-dominated careers still find few takers in women

HR Digest

Diversity and equal opportunity are a compulsory part of any company’s human resource plan. But there are still some occupations that are typically male-dominated, not due to any resistance but because of traditional bias, or just the hardships involved or the sheer human power needed to operate. Construction industry.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. Recall how the U.S.

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business Review

Franklin was in the business of designing, engineering, and manufacturing climate control systems for cars and SUVs. She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

If the person(s) responsible for managing are able to look at the eighteen points above and determine they are more or less in place, they are operating at the most fundamental or beginner’s level of management. Human Resource Management : this is the management of the people you have hired. Human Resource Management.

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What the Data Says About Women in Management Between 1980 and 2010

Harvard Business Review

Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. Among the new positions to emerge since 1980, women make up less than 10% of architecture, engineer, and construction managers.

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

Or is one more a pawn in a rigged game of self-destruction; a mark in a ponzi scheme; a dull-eyed pack animal to which the engines of extraction are yoked? Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? Who's who, mechanism and operator, sovereign — and serf?

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