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How to Manage People in Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

However, they also represent assets that may be difficult to manage. Because owners frequently overlook employee management when launching a business, it is important to acquire this skill and cultivate it. You could award employees who complete the courses with certificates that can be inserted into their human resource (HR) file.

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How To Win With People Analytics

HR Digest

It can be used to identify the risks that workers face today, which should be acknowledged and recognized by both HR and management. Artificial intelligence is considered today to be the most creative and promising field for workforce management. People Analytics.

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4 Steps to Sustaining Improvement in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

These high-performing health systems offered a key insight: To sustain change, you need a strong strategy for engaging and standardizing the work of frontline managers. Most organizations standardize work for managers by testing it on a small scale in one pilot unit. Standardizing work processes is a concept from lean management.).

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What Circuit City Learned About Valuing Employees

Harvard Business Review

What excited Sam was McGregor's clear and compelling articulation of the personnel (today, we say "human resources") policies in which he instinctively believed. From the day he opened his first TV and appliance retail store in Richmond, Virginia, Sam understood that management means getting results through the efforts of other people.

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Workplace Bullying: Little-Known Factors to Help You End Bullying At Workplace

HR Digest

It is a difficult type of workplace aggression because workplace bullies usually operate within the organizational regulations. Micromanage the worker and clinically scrutinizing the employee’s work to highlight incompetence and find reasons to abuse the worker. Make unreasonable demands or illogical requests.

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If Employees Don’t Trust You, It’s Up to You to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

A high level of trust between managers and employees defines the best workplaces and drives overall company performance and revenue. Over my many years of helping organizations create high-performance workplaces, I’ve seen firsthand how untrustworthy managers damage morale and productivity. As Stephen M.