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360-Degree Feedback Programs To Help Your Company Grow

HR Digest

Approaches Peer Reviews Delicately An article by Harvard Business Review emphasizes why honest peer reviews are hard to find as people do not want to hurt their friends or feel it might reflect negatively on them as a team. Avoid personal questions and evaluations and focus on the individual’s work performance.

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Is Employee Engagement Just a Reflection of Personality?

Harvard Business Review

But despite the importance of these contextual drivers of engagement, how people feel about their job, boss, and workplace may also vary as a function of people’s own character traits. To illustrate this point, imagine that a friend tells you that she hates her job.

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Workplace Wellness Programs Could Be Putting Your Health Data at Risk

Harvard Business Review

Although some studies have questioned the efficacy of wellness programs for reducing employers’ health care costs, and some researchers have accused wellness programs of actually hurting employees’ wellness by causing more stress , these programs continue to proliferate. More than two-thirds of all U.S.-based

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. Bungle also points out that investments in general health and work-life balance, including workshops on stress management and sleep, have made a positive impact on the lives of his employees.

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