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How Technology Impacts Employee Wellbeing

The Horizons Tracker

It’s not a narrative I necessarily subscribe to, and believe it’s far more likely that technology will complement the work humans do. That said, however, both sides of this debate tend to over-simplify things somewhat, as a recent paper from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University illustrates.

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10 Characteristics Of High-Performing Teams

Tim Milburn

Each team member carries his or her own weight and respects the team processes and other members. Ron Ricci , co-author of The Collaboration Imperative , is the vice president of corporate positioning and has spent the last decade helping Cisco develop and nurture a culture of sharing and collaborative processes.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

Gennard and Judge (2002) state, “Employee relations is a study of the rules, regulations, and agreements by which employees are managed both as individuals and as a collective group, the priority given to the individual as opposed to the collective relationship varying from company to company depending upon the values of management.

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Behaviors of Collaborative Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Tell people your style and thought process for navigating tricky, or even every day, decisions. In our experience, and this is backed up by research, there's a direct relationship between the agility and resilience of a team and the transparency of its decision­ making processes. Ultimately, it's as much a mindset as it is a process.

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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 Sustain Front Line Process Improvement Activities

Harvard Business Review

Even though it's what keeps companies operationally in shape, front-line process improvement is hard to sustain. They described how each Technicolor employee had a target of suggesting two process improvements per month. That sounded like a great way to keep a process improvement program going. Consider the story of Technicolor.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

In the process, more than 600 million people have escaped poverty. percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 That growth was driven largely by the increased use of information technology in customer analysis and supply chain optimization. It contributed 1.4

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