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What To Focus On When Starting a New Job: Role Integration

CoachStation

Photo Source: Clay Banks, Unsplash It is critical to understand the importance of an effective onboarding and induction process. According to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), effective onboarding can increase employee retention by 25% and improve productivity by up to 50%.

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Integration and Maximising Opportunities When Starting a New Job

CoachStation

Photo Source: Clay Banks, Unsplash It is critical to understand the importance of an effective onboarding and induction process. According to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), effective onboarding can increase employee retention by 25% and improve productivity by up to 50%.

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Employee Volunteer Programs Make A Difference In The Community

Women on Business

Additionally according to the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College and Business Civic Leadership Center in 2005 64% of executives surveyed say that corporate citizenship produces a tangible contribution to the company bottom line. Among executives at large companies, 84% see direct bottom-line benefits. It feeds on itself.

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Give Your Organization a Work-Life Vision

Harvard Business Review

He was the 21-year-old investment banking intern who died in London, August 15, 2013, after having worked 72 hours straight at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. (To When the news broke, a director at the bank commented: “We are used to working with people who are ambitious and want to over-perform.”

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How an American Express Executive Drives Growth

Harvard Business Review

Schulman: The global head of human resources at American Express was on the board at Virgin Mobile, where I was CEO. They’re unbanked or under-banked or, as we call it, unhappily banked. For us, it was really thinking about software as the priority going forward. Excerpts: HBR: Why did you decide to come to Amex?

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business Review

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Agile espouses short cycles, regular reflection, and course correction based on evidence collected during the software production process.

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When Investors Want to Know How You Treat People

Harvard Business Review

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. Some of the most important insights will come from human capital reporting. Outside the U.S.,