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Accelerate Your Growth through Agile HR Practices

HR Digest

Change is the only constant and agile HR appears to be the next evolutionary stage of human resources in an organization. The Agile Manifesto written by a collection of 17 bright minds in 2001 , gave rise to a collection of values to guide software development in an agile, adaptive manner. can all adopt these agile practices.

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

And as you can see in the chart below, the long-term trend in the percentage of workers who are self-employed actually appears to be downward: But isn’t this the age of Free Agent Nation , as Dan Pink declared back in 1997 ? Other long-established varieties of independent work have been declining, or at least not growing much.

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You’re Never Done Finding Purpose at Work

Harvard Business Review

” In 2001 Schillinger landed a position in France at the vaccine maker. To date, she has occupied positions in human resources, product development, and stakeholder engagement. “I will not fall into complacency. No matter what, I will continue to hone myself.”

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Hiring and Managing in Turbulent Times

Harvard Business Review

His horizon was exceedingly long-term. Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S. A natural reaction would have been to obey the short-term signals and retrench and, indeed, that’s what most of our competitors did, dismissing up to 50% of their staffs.

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The Common Myths About Performance Reviews, Debunked

Harvard Business Review

But amid these changes, how many organizations have ever taken a close look at how performance reviews actually operate in their own workplace, over the long term? corporation between 2001 and 2007. Certainly there were employees who performed poorly over time, and they tended to get fired.