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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. Our research indicated that young people are more than twice as likely to stay at their job for more than a year if they see their job as a career or a stepping stone to a career.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

By “total health” we mean a culture that’s supportive of career, emotional, financial, physical and social well-being – not just an occasional road race. Now participation exceeds 50% since this change and has helped workers become more actively engaged in the company’s wellness program.

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What Corporations Can Learn From a 4,000-Person Parade Extravaganza (Seriously)

Harvard Business Review

It is also, for the great majority of the participants, a volunteer show. All this in Brazil, a country where women are known to have much slower and shorter corporate careers than men, and where black directors are vanishingly rare in larger corporations. What can large corporations operating in Brazil learn from all this?

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

This integration of care will need to occur longitudinally across a patient’s life as he or she ages; vertically among primary, specialty, and hospital care; horizontally between health systems and between different participating sectors (e.g., Its primary goal is to help children graduate college. Proactive and population-based.

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Workplace Democracy – A Genie in A Bottle | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

According to many experts who wax poetic about employee engagement, democratic workplaces also experience less absenteeism and turnover, two things that are mightily expensive in more traditional workplaces. There is a deeper sense of ownership too, among employees and a greater amount of freedom of expression.

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