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Employee Engagement and Productivity – Strategies for Success

Strategy Driven

Engaged employees willingly invest not only their time but also their energy and creativity, resulting in heightened dedication and output that directly impacts overall productivity. Granting employees a certain degree of autonomy within their roles not only instils a sense of ownership but also encourages innovation.

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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

Setting the numbers aside, employers also expend a lot of time and energy in onboarding and training a new hire. If companies get better at hiring candidates who correctly match the work ethic, job description, and company culture of the organization, they immediately reduce the likelihood of these candidates leaving.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

Before long, we’ll stop referring to the underlying technologies involved — including lasers, radar, cameras, embedded sensors, and advanced machine learning software — in terms of what they’re replacing. Plus, the rise of mobile phones is being blamed for a new spike in U.S. traffic deaths.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Carl had a Ph.D.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Carl had a Ph.D.

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Should Your Voice Determine Whether You Get Hired?

Harvard Business Review

The development of different apps, software, and algorithms has produced many novel methodologies for screening job candidates and evaluating their potential fit for a role or organization. Finally, we should think carefully about the ethical implications of adopting this method. Do these questions mean voice profiling is a dead end?