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Investing In People Builds Resilience Against The Covid Recession

The Horizons Tracker

It’s prompted economists to predict a recession that is twice as deep as that experienced after the 2008 financial crisis. The researchers assessed the state of HRM in each firm across five domains: employee development, team working, incentives, selection, and participation.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Educational and incentive programs should be implemented. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. This is not something that can be conducted alone by internal human resources departments. Research shows they can be cut in half.

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Workers with Disabilities Solved This Company's Talent Crisis

Harvard Business Review

When Gitanjali Gems set up its diamond-cutting, polishing and jewellery making unit in its 176 acre campus outside Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh in southern India, it faced a major human resources challenge. VP of Operations. India has a population of 20 million disabled of which barely 0.1% are employed in the organised sector.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.

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How American Business Can Navigate the Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

My company, CareerBuilder (which operates the U.S.'s It's notable that in the wake of the mortgage crisis, the American workforce isn't as mobile. Ultimately, if the right candidates still aren't applying, businesses should take ownership of the skills-training process and the government should incent it.

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