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How Technology Impacts Employee Wellbeing

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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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Sustainable Investment Funds Can Encourage Worse Behavior

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Sustainable behaviors The researchers scrutinized the emissions records of more than three thousand major corporations spanning the years 2002 to 2020. Alternatively, investors could direct funds to firms that are developing innovative green technologies, such as carbon dioxide removal.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

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As Harvard lecturer and global trend watcher Vikram Mansharamani shows in this eye-opening and perspective-shifting book, our complex, data-flooded world has made us ever more reliant on experts, protocols, and technology. Too often, we've stopped thinking for ourselves. Dave Cote is intimately familiar with this problem.

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The Evolution of the Executive, C-Suite, and Boardroom

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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This was still, however, a largely ‘hush hush’ environment until 2002 when the Sarbanes-Oxley Act came into play, an act passed by U.S. Congress in 2002 to protect investors from the possibility of fraudulent accounting activities by corporations. Companies focused on diversity across many forms.

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

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This generation is the first to be raised in a post-industrial era driven by technology. Hierarchy is nearing an end and collaboration is emerging in its place because younger generations have been raised to do it, cycle times will demand it, and technology will continue to enable it. So how do we lead this generation of rookie talent?

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Industry Concentration Is Bad News For Good Jobs

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The researchers believe their findings are important, as this decline has often been attributed to factors such as global trade, reduced union power, or technological change (or a combination of all). And that, in turn, shrinks the economic surplus available for workers.” ” Gauging the market.

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The Health And Wellbeing Of Workers In The Modern Economy

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The researchers say that due to the forces technology and economic change are imposing on the nature of work, our current models for understanding the workplace are simply not fit for purpose. So says new research from the University of Washington, which explores how important employment conditions are to our health. Healthy work.

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