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CSR Starts with HR: Connecting the Dots

HR Digest

As a result, Human Resources (HR) has a crucial role to play in ensuring that CSR initiatives are integrated into an organization’s operations and culture. Conclusion In summary, HR has a critical role to play in ensuring that CSR initiatives are integrated into an organization’s culture and operations.

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Be More Productive Now: Mindful Strategies for Increasing Performance

Strategy Driven

He is the founder of The Potential Project – a leading global provider of corporate based mindfulness solutions operating in 20 countries. Rasmus has a Master’s degree in Organizational Development & Adult Learning and degrees in Philosophy and Human Resources. Gillian is a Partner with The Potential Project Australia.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale.

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Seven Lessons American Manufacturing’s Decline Can Teach Any Company

Strategy Driven

And that is a failure of American leadership on an epic scale; a failure of government to work with manufacturing instead of against it; a failure of business to adapt to the global marketplace instead of running from it. But most of all, it is a failure of leadership to harness and unleash the remarkable potential of the American worker.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? ” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. Operations Competitive strategy Technology' She told me how difficult it was.

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What the Data Says About Women in Management Between 1980 and 2010

Harvard Business Review

Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. They are also vastly underrepresented as managers of general operations, computer information, industrial production, and transportation.

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Expanding the Reach of Primary Care in Developing Countries

Harvard Business Review

There are considerable hurdles to scaling any health service in resource-constrained settings. Primary care delivery faces additional challenges for scaling because it operates on thin margins, often is not highly valued by patients, and has difficulty attracting trained providers. Management and leadership skills.