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Employee Recognition: Why It’s So Important and How to Do It

Chart Your Course

Human resources firm Bersin found in a 2012 study that 87 percent of companies utilize tenure-based employee recognition programs, despite research showing these methods are outdated. In 2013, a TechRepublic and ZDNet survey found that 62 percent of companies already had or will launch some form of BYOD program by the end of that year.

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Is Anyone Really Responsible for Your Company's Data Security?

Harvard Business Review

Verizon''s newest data breach investigations report for 2013 tells us — yet again — that cyber security depends on people as much as technology. Cyber security involves legal issues, human resources practices and policies, operational configurations, and technical expertise. Not a pleasant experience.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules. We grew faster than we thought we would.