Joseph Lalonde
JANUARY 10, 2018
Moreover, disengagement and higher instances of absenteeism are reported among workers who underutilize their gifts in their position. Recently, I was listening to a podcast which shared how Texas A&M University has created a pilot program, combining engineering and a medical degree. In the end, goods and services decline.
Deming Institute
JANUARY 5, 2017
I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I was fortunate that my father had an opportunity to be a student in the famed four-day seminar, while working as an engineer at the Cadillac division of General Motors, in the late 1980s. Edwards Deming.
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Leading Blog
AUGUST 20, 2021
The early colonial years included land charters and grants, such as those to William Penn and George Calvert, but these often went to absentee landlords. Land had been the source of power and wealth in the Old World, and so for Europeans, the vast acreage of the New World held great promise, whether for farming, housing, or other ends.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2016
The study did not increase captain absenteeism, nor did it increase flight times, which provides further support for the position that such behavioral interventions can provide gains on a number of workplace dimensions without producing negative effects.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
While all of those certainly play a role, I'm guessing that what Elizabeth Scharpf stumbled across as a critical factor in absenteeism wasn't on your radar. Minimal professional training? Insufficient infrastructure? While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!)
Modern Servant Leader
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
Really messed-up experiencing strikes, union drives, turnover absenteeism, low commitment, low morale. And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures. The kids are acting out”, right?! What began to dawn on me over time was the issue was leadership. I’ve got friends. I’m connected.”
Modern Servant Leader
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
Really messed-up experiencing strikes, union drives, turnover absenteeism, low commitment, low morale. And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures. The kids are acting out”, right?! What began to dawn on me over time was the issue was leadership. I’ve got friends. I’m connected.”
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