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7 Practical Ways to Reduce Bias in Your Hiring Process

Harvard Business Review

” In the workplace, this “can stymie diversity, recruiting, promotion, and retention efforts.” ” On the other hand, words like “collaborative” and “cooperative,” tend to draw more women than men. ” Go blind for the resume review. ” Set diversity goals.

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Let Your Employees Bring Their Interests to Work

Harvard Business Review

If he had taken his research out of the office, Mark would have found that Jennifer felt very strongly about her local identity and bought her vegetables from a local organic cooperative; at the same time, she was concerned about global issues and invested her savings in Indiegogo , a global crowdfunding platform.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. Your network’s strategic advantage and, therefore, the extent to which it helps you step up to leadership, depends on three qualities: Breadth: Strong relationships with a diverse range of contacts.

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To Address Gender Bias at Your Company, Start with Teams

Harvard Business Review

The only area where women pull ahead of men is in human resources, where they account for 71% of all HR managers. Real diversity efforts require organizations to address the social patterns that stifle women’s careers, not just the symptoms that result from them. But these efforts aren’t really working.

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Research Shows Unionized Workers Are Less Happy, but Why?

Harvard Business Review

The purpose of my study was to provide a systematic and quantitative review of the existing empirical evidence on the effects of unionization on overall job satisfaction. This can produce a more satisfied, cooperative, and productive workforce. Which theory is right? Ultimately, it’s an empirical question.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. Beyond risk mitigation, taking a strategic approach to diversity and inclusion can have tangible payoffs. This is a laudable response.

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Changing Capitalism, One Organization at a Time

Harvard Business Review

So it's not surprising that we received a striking diversity of entries from every kind of organization and from every corner of the world. As a $17 billion, 90,000-person network of 258 cooperatives, the Mondragon Corporation is the antithesis of the monolithic, go-it-alone enterprise at the center of so much economic activity.