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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

An article by Greg Roper from 2015 indicated that interpersonal communication and conflict management were two of the most important skills to focus on, and that remains relevant today. Performance Reviews The format a company adopts for providing feedback to an employee can determine how the employee accepts and inculcates that feedback.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. Marys during the fourth quarter of 2015.

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Niche specialists collectively conduct a research study or performance review. Hardware, software and component producers revolutionizing the next generation of technology. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Company turnaround situation requires a multi-disciplinary approach. All rights reserved.

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Creating an Effective Peer Review System

Harvard Business Review

Employee performance reviews are a hot topic once again. Many people think real-time peer reviews will be a key piece of the puzzle. According to the 2015 SHRM/Globoforce Employee Recognition Survey , such reinforcement can boost retention, productivity, creativity, and business outcomes. Embrace new technology.

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How Banks Are Capitalizing on a New Wave of Big Data and Analytics - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM COGNIZANT

Harvard Business Review

billion debit and credit card transactions, its research revealed a dramatic slowdown in the growth of everyday consumer spending from 2014 to 2015. Consumers can even sell their own data anonymously through technologies like Datacoup, which analyzes it and provides the results to companies. When JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyzed 12.4

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The Benefits of Peer-to-Peer Praise at Work

Harvard Business Review

In short, these two studies suggest that effective digital recognition programs can help scale organic praise, have a high ROI, and lead to significantly higher levels of employee performance and engagement, as well as increased customer loyalty, as measured by net promoter scores. How technology is changing the way we work.

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Most Doctors Have Little or No Management Training, and That’s a Problem

Harvard Business Review

And this has produced good results at a number of organizations, including the Mayo Clinic (two leaders shared the top job until 2015), Cigna Medical Group, and Carle Foundation Hospital. Yet we frequently see that health care organizations are reluctant to give performance reviews, especially to physicians.