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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). In the book, he focuses on the importance of “systems thinking” to help transform a business into a “learning organisation.” Human Resource Champions (1996). By Patrick M. It is one of the most popular and frequently discussed books in HR.

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These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team

Chart Your Course

In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. They need to be tech experts, navigating your cloud contact center , social media and customer management systems. If the movies are true, the ideal is a tie wearing, straight arrow that lives for financial statements.

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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

MARC is focused on empowering male executives and leaders to model inclusive behavior, influence more equitable talent management systems and processes, and build effective partnerships across gender. Since 2002, Chevron reports a 68 percent increase in the number of women and minorities in senior leadership and executive positions.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

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E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. Systems intelligence – sensing the big picture and how things connect. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002).

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The 3 Types of Diversity That Shape Our Identities

Harvard Business Review

Since the 1980s, most global companies have developed diversity and inclusion policies led by human resources. The most frequent include: assessment tools (climate surveys, statistics monitoring, minority targets), human resources programs (flexible policies, mentoring or coaching), communication campaigns, and training programs.

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We Can’t Always Control What Makes Us Successful

Harvard Business Review

The 2002 movie Minority Report told the story of a future in which law enforcement could tell who would commit crimes in the future. There is an interesting parallel with the court system where predictions of a defendant’s risk of committing a crime in the future are in many states used to shape the sentence they will be given.

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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

It's rare to find a corporate human resources function that accelerates change by actively finding ways to help drive new strategies. Prior to 2002, when Sam Palmisano became CEO, IBM had a series of feuding fiefdoms — 170 country units — each with its own policies, procedures, and processes. But not at IBM.