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Transitioning From Employee Well-being To Healthy Organization

HR Digest

It’s your duty as an employer or human resource manager to consider what factors could bring this goal to light. This, in turn, can lead to reduced absenteeism and improved productivity. In today’s competitive job market, employees are looking for more than just a paycheck.

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How a Flex-Time Program at MIT Improved Productivity, Resilience, and Trust

Harvard Business Review

In today’s increasingly competitive hiring market, organizations need to think differently about how to attract new employees and retain existing ones. Working directly with our human resources department, we launched a remote work pilot for our team of 35 employees. Laura Schneider for HBR. You and Your Team Series.

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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs

Harvard Business Review

Department of Health and Human Services. It’s not clear whether the authors are intentionally dismissing or simply misunderstanding the wealth of data that shows how wellness programs benefit participating employees. Health Human resources' Lewis and Khanna, however, don’t focus on such findings.

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This Coalition of 20 Companies Thinks It Can Change U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Given what we have learned from studying, advising, and participating in ongoing and past efforts by employers to improve health care, using collective power as leverage often is not sufficient to drive meaningful change. Its 20 founding members should encourage others in their local markets to participate in their initiatives.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). Human Resource Management.