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The Office Christmas Party and Legal Liability

HR Digest

Gender equality, workplace behavior and ethics, and stringent human resource policies and cases of sexual harassment have rendered the infamous ‘50s and 60s gatherings largely obsolete. The company sent a questionnaire to 150 human resource executives across the United States in 2017 about their annual holiday party plans.

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Be More Productive Now: Mindful Strategies for Increasing Performance

Strategy Driven

Rasmus is author of the book “One Second Ahead – Enhancing Performance at work with Mindfulness”, published by Palgrave MacMillan, October 2015. Rasmus has a Master’s degree in Organizational Development & Adult Learning and degrees in Philosophy and Human Resources. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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How a Public-Private Partnership Is Saving Lives

Harvard Business Review

While there has been progress made in many countries by smart, passionate people in global health, the United Nations acknowledges that its Millennium Development Goal to dramatically reduce maternal mortality by 2015 is at great risk for failure. Maternal mortality is an enormously complicated problem.

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How to Improve the Engagement and Retention of Young Hourly Workers

Harvard Business Review

They also want their managers to be flexible when unexpected events outside of work arise, such as sickness or transportation challenges. She breaks down the operational and human resource decisions that make this possible in her HBR article and book The Good Jobs Strategy.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

Fact 6: The lowest number of women in leadership roles are in the consumer products, transportation services, computer software, technology, chemicals, energy and utilities, construction, industrial manufacturing and automotive and transport industries (15 to 30 percent of leaders are women). Goldman Sachs. 2014) Womenomics 4.0:

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Rescuing Capitalism from Itself

Harvard Business Review

One leg represents public sector governments and the services they provide for the common good, such as education, defense, and a transport infrastructure. The other leg represents private sector businesses and the resources they mobilize for the provision of our commercial goods and services. Can we be right again now?

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