HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

Sonia Cargan, Senior Vice President, Chief Colleague Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Talent Officer at American Express, talks exclusively to The HR Digest about how people-focused strategies have been the key to the giant’s success.

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Diversity Commitment Globalization Strategy 69

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 27, 2023

During the trial period, sick days were reduced by 65% and the number of employees leaving participating organizations fell by 57% compared to the same period the previous year. Positive results Numerous organizations based in the United Kingdom participated in the trial, with approximately 2,900 employees working one less day per week.

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Participative Report Stress Survey 52

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In a bid to understand why these feelings emerged, the researchers surveyed around 5,000 academics, medical residents, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows from across nine different universities and 80 different fields. Participants were asked to rate how often they feel like an imposter and how deep those feelings are.

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Diversity Career Survey Participative 110

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Dawn Frazier-Bohnert, Liberty Mutual Insurance, EVP, Global Diversity Equity & Inclusion Officer, on laying the foundations for a successful global future where intersectionality is celebrated. The HR Digest: What is your vision of diversity at Liberty Mutual? Diversity is about all of us and equity is for all of us.

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Self-aware Diversity Planning Insurance 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As we continue to bring our culture to life in our operating model and our HR practices, we continue to use surveys, crowdsourcing, focus groups and other tools to ensure our people are heard. It was not a top-down approach, even though this work was sponsored by our CEO and senior team. How is 3M responding to the COVID-19 crisis?

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Human Resources Focus Group Crisis Definition 132

HR Digest

AUGUST 14, 2023

Is it increasing revenue, improving customer satisfaction, or enhancing operational efficiency? They come from diverse backgrounds, have different learning styles, and bring their own unique set of experiences to the table. They come from diverse backgrounds and have different learning needs and preferences.

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Training Succession Objective Learning-by-Doing 98

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

CMI bolsters its presence in Australia Last month, CMI participated in The PIE Live event in Gold Coast, Australia, alongside leaders in international education. Before the event, a survey was conducted to collect views and opinions from Hong Kong’s working professionals. Find more information about the event and survey results here.

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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Experience to Lead

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you’re employed in a technology-first corporation, oversee operations in a retail chain or run a healthcare organization, every sector demands effective leadership. Once you realize that flexibility in leadership style is key to communicating clearly with a group of diverse people, you’ll see the results almost instantaneously.

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Leadership Development Development Succession Leadership 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Diversity is both an issue of fairness and, some say, a driver of innovation and performance. To assess the latter claim, we undertook a large, cross-country study into the relationship between multiple aspects of managerial diversity, the presence of enabling conditions such as leadership support for diversity, and innovation outcomes.

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Diversity Innovation Education Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Likewise, Rosalind Brewer, an African-American woman and Sam’s Club CEO, was called racist for advocating for diversity. We defined diversity-valuing behavior as that which promotes demographic balance within organizations. We collected these ratings from their 360-degree feedback surveys.) So why does this happen?

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Diversity 360-Degree Feedback Survey Participative 8

Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Survey external customers—citizens; those who live and work in the community. The EPD begins to survey internal and external customers as to their needs. A customer survey form is developed, pretested, and sent out to randomly- selected citizen-customers who have had police contact. Get buy-in from top department managers.

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Case Study System Decentralization Management 40

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that the labor force participation of women in their prime, aged between 25 and 54, has increased to 77.8 Labor force participation rates are also clear on the fact that working mothers with younger children (aged below 5) were less likely to participate in the workforce earlier.

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GDP McKinsey Participative Report 98

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. Firms with the most ethnically diverse executive teams were 33% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability, and those with executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21% likelihood of outperforming their industry competitors.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

More than half of the 1,200 young people working in entry-level jobs we surveyed said that was their plan — and less than a quarter felt highly satisfied with their job. The young people we surveyed worked in a wide variety of industries, including health care, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality.

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Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. Expert teachers (fountains of learning material) are the building block in the educational process, and the student must be an active participant (rather than a non-involved or combative roadblock). Mentorship.

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Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

As part of this process, we formally surveyed more than 150 executives; the sample represented a broad cross-section of health care, with respondents serving in leadership roles at organizations as diverse as physician practices, hospitalist staffing agencies and large health systems. But this optimism is not a sign of complacency.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Disruptive Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

We conducted a survey of over 5,000 board members from around the world to find out. Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Mercer QuickPulse US Compensation Planning Survey of August 2023 found that employers are planning a 3.9 Add in more diverse identities and the disparity becomes even more apparent. According to the International Labor Organization , the global labor force participation rate for women stands at 47 percent.

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System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

The answer depends on the students participating in MOOCs. Though a few studies from Harvard , MIT , and the University of Pennsylvania have examined MOOC participants, none to date have focused specifically on those taking business classes. This includes a demographic survey with over 65,000 responses.

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Education Course Class Short-term 11

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

Such a degree of corporate socialization can also stifle innovation and overall cognitive diversity. Peter Fasolo: At our core, Johnson & Johnson is a company that is deeply rooted in the values expressed in Our Credo, which defines how we operate and our expectations for our business and our people.

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Innovation Diversity Human Resources Committee 96

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

We’re discussing a new Deloitte report around leadership in a diverse new world. I’m thrilled to be able to use this podcast to share with you our latest thinking, and what is required to be an inclusive leader that can thrive in this diverse new world. The first is diversity of markets. Terri Cooper, Ph.D.

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Cooper Content Diversity Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite. A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function. Even HR itself agrees.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Economic activities centered around online platforms, where independent sellers can offer goods or services to customers, are attracting significant consumer attention and spending, according to new data from the National Technology Readiness Survey* (NTRS), which has tracked technology behaviors and beliefs in the U.S. since 1999.

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Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

After more than a decade in People Operations, I believe that the experience of work can be — should be — so much better. This isn’t your typical employee survey. Here’s how it works: a randomly selected and representative group of over 4,000 Googlers completes two in-depth surveys each year. Innovation?

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Long-term Survey Short-term Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates. We surveyed more than 1,000 board members in 59 countries.

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Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

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Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The questions represent a short version of the survey I use with my students. 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. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network?

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

Such a degree of corporate socialization can also stifle innovation and overall cognitive diversity. Peter Fasolo: At our core, Johnson & Johnson is a company that is deeply rooted in the values expressed in Our Credo, which defines how we operate and our expectations for our business and our people.

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Innovation Diversity Human Resources Committee 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

Therefore, it’s helpful to collect feedback via a third party such as an external search, consulting or research firm; an internal market research, branding or analytics department that is outside of both the hiring area and human resources; and/or anonymously through web surveys or via email.

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Company Human Resources Open-book Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The group was diverse: I spoke with a 39-year-old managing director of a large investment bank, a failing self-employed photographer, a millionaire entrepreneur, and a Fortune 500 CEO. As their personal finances shored up, professionals I surveyed yearned for more control over their lives. You can't ever get those years back.".

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Career Golden Handcuff Short-term CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Here’s an example: one of us (Amir Ghaferi) learned about a new surgical technique for abdominal wall reconstruction called transversus abdominis release (TAR) from participating in the International Hernia Collaboration (IHC) Facebook group. ” Source: Survey of RSC group users conducted by the authors, 2017.

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Media Skills Conference Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. My informal survey of a dozen people I know under the age of 35, working in a range of desk jobs, all in the U.S. There's a new lonely crowd in the workplace.

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Silverman Real Estate Fashion Open-book 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Our research on boards of directors and corporate governance has shed new light on many board practices and reveals the need for improvement in several areas including skills and selection , succession planning , and diversity. We found, alas, that FOB boards trailed behind non-FOB boards on diversity. Director Profiles.

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FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 8

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Specific objectives for each member, Participative decision making, Explicit time period, and. 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. questionnaires or surveys.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

France: Pushing quotas and operational roles. France is one of the rare countries to have so many of their most senior women in operational roles, rather than the staff and support function jobs that has been the initial answer of so many companies trying to balance their teams. You’ll find the more detailed reports here.

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Execution Committee Diversity Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In a staggering blow to the ideal of socially-responsible business, American adults who took our surveys for pay consistently indicated that they expect harmful business practices to increase profit. Doing so entails operating more efficiently or innovating to create products that consumers value more.

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

And a new survey by Cisco found that one-third of all completed IoT projects were not considered a success. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions. Street sweepers continued to operate as they always had, clogging the inflow holes with leaves and dirt.

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Succession ROI Technology Operations 8