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360-Degree Feedback Programs To Help Your Company Grow

HR Digest

Instead of the unilateral appraisal systems that allow the supervisor’s perspective to shape an employee’s career, the 360-degree performance appraisal system accounts for other individuals the employee works with , ensuring a well-rounded, data-based evaluation instead. What Are Some 360-degree Examples?

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The Fickle Nature of Good Character and Trust

Leading with Trust

I’m sure you’ll enjoy his wisdom about the intersection of character, trust, and ethics. We are prone to make bad, and sometimes unethical judgements when there is greater pressure to “get’er done,” versus to get things done ethically, safely, or legally. Some people would call these virtues and they are.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business Review

We selected 15 people from that group who demonstrated strong work ethic, grit, and excitement for the program. Five out of the 15 participants successfully completed the training and were hired as apprentices at Treehouse and two other hiring partner companies in Portland (Nike and InVision).

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3 Emerging Alternatives to Traditional Hiring Methods

Harvard Business Review

These three dimensions of employability and career success have strong links with broad psychological traits. But certain organizations, such as PepsiCo and Starwood Hotels and Resorts, are also analyzing employee data to create profiles of their most successful people — this gives them valuable benchmarks for outsiders.

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Does Your Company Have What It Takes to Go Global?

Harvard Business Review

After ensuring that there were no significant differences in company or participant characteristics between the groups, we compared respondents’ capabilities across the seven ‘tudes. The tool consists of 28 statements, four for each of the seven ‘tudes. Encouraging open discussion of potential knowable issues.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Realities of Networking

Strategy Driven

Ostensibly, all participants benefit from the synergy. They exchange ideas, swap cards, engage in base-level volunteer work and participate in several concurrent networks. Curiously, that charity has been clouded by public investigations of questionable ethics and dubious fund-raising practices.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

Thus, when Lay (CEO of Enron) was chairing a charity drive, Lay asked for 100% participation from the client’s firm, and the client reciprocated by edicting donations from his 200+ employees. I thought that demanding participation in one person’s pet cause was too punitive to the company’s employees and told the client so.