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How to Improve the Engagement and Retention of Young Hourly Workers

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, employee disengagement results in higher absenteeism, more accidents, lower business profitability, worse customer service, and a lower share price. They shared five key insights for employers looking to improve retention and engagement, including how to improve manager training, diversity and inclusion, and scheduling.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. On the contrary, academic research and business experience point to quite the opposite.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. Really messed-up experiencing strikes, union drives, turnover absenteeism, low commitment, low morale. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. Really messed-up experiencing strikes, union drives, turnover absenteeism, low commitment, low morale. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back.

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Do You Know Who Holds Your Office Together?

Harvard Business Review

What would it look like if managers were as polite and nurturing to one another and their subordinates as they are to customers? So we propose a three-step solution to properly value the office tending work that lubricates its operations: identify it; understand its impact; and find ways to assign it value. Identify the tending work.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. These include infant safety and injury prevention, social work, legal advocacy, case management, tutoring, fitness classes, nutrition and lactation, mental health, and dental care.