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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87 percent of companies utilize tenure-based employee recognition programs, despite research showing these methods are outdated.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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Why Social Networks Still Haven’t Cracked the Job Search Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

That’s the definition of a potent business opportunity, and a powerful incentive for both parties to direct resources to fulfill that need before some clever third party, say an aggregator or data crawler, steps in. That essentially makes it a resource arms race, and in a resource arms race, Facebook has the clear advantage.

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What Amazing Bosses Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

You can’t rely on incentives like bonuses, stock options, or raises. Scot Sellers, a protégé of Sanders who went on to become CEO of Archstone before retiring in 2013, recalled that his former boss “would lay out his vision and say, ‘I would like you to be a part of it.’ ” Just 2%!

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Employee Engagement Articles

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Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. For Majority of Workers, Vacation Days Go Unused Boston Globe, December 2013. Gallup’s Workplace Jedi on How to Fix Our Employee Engagement Problem Fast Company, June, 2013. Economical Employee Engagement Human Resource Executive Online, January 2011.

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Rehiring Retirees as Consultants Is Bad Business

Harvard Business Review

For one thing, at GEGRC, internal analysis predicted a potential tsunami of retirements hitting the two top technical levels between 2008 and 2013. And it was that lull in departures which allowed the organization to redesign some of its incentives, practices and culture. So what was wrong with this picture?

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If the Board Monitors the Company, Who Monitors the Board?

Harvard Business Review

By 2013, that fixed portion had dropped from 63 to 16 percent while the incentive fraction soared from 17 to 66 percent. An important filter has become the quality of the board’s leadership, and to help appraise it, Blackstone brought in Sandy Ogg who had served as the chief human resource officer for Unilever.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. To affect changes in culture, some CMOs are partnering more closely with human resources. And that really is on the backs of marketing.”

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