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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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Virgin Atlantic Tested 3 Ways to Change Employee Behavior

Harvard Business Review

An estimated 21% of carbon emissions in the United States are attributable to companies, and yet to date there is scant research on how to make firm operations more efficient in terms of reducing pollution. For many years, teams at Virgin Atlantic have been testing ways to motivate efficient decision-making in the cockpit.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

But providing feedback reports that remind employees that smoking, not exercising, or being overweight is unhealthy does not motivate change unless workers are given the tools and resources to actually change and track their behaviors. Offering smart incentives. Paying people to change their habits.

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How to Reduce Employee Turnover Rate

Strategy Driven

Flexibility defines things like working hours, collaborations, workload, deadlines, and rules about absenteeism and reporting to work. Money is a great incentive that you can use to lure employees into dedicating their time and effort to meeting the company’s goals. One of the main reasons why people go to work is to earn money.

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

Harvard Business Review

Sena, a supervisor in a company that sells credit to the upcoming Brazilian middle class, thinks corporations underplay this element and rely too much on the motivational power of financial incentives. What can large corporations operating in Brazil learn from all this? Global business Motivation Organizational culture'

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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. Educate and Motivate Others.

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