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The Four Vs of Employee Motivation: Velocity, Visibility, Value, and Valor

Strategy Driven

For businesses that want to continually innovate and grow, engaged employees who work with passion and feel a profound connection to their company are required. The study showed a 27 percent performance increase when an incentive was offered for persistence toward a company goal.

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Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

Deming Institute

Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary. Occasionally, a brother would get voted out of the chapter after a period of excessive absenteeism.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive.

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Employers Need to Recognize That Our Wellness Starts at Work

Harvard Business Review

Innovating for Value in Health Care. While we can argue about the best ways to maximize productivity, it’s hard to dispute that the physical, mental, and (yes) emotional conditions of employees are very much the business of the company, given that they greatly impact performance, morale, and absenteeism. Insight Center.