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Access To Mental Health Services Affects Our Career Income

The Horizons Tracker

This is reflected in a study by Tilburg University in the Netherlands, which finds that 64% of managers would be reluctant to hire an applicant if they have identifiable mental health problems. The findings are significant because the managers surveyed were not basing their biases on personal experience.

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The Big Picture of Business – Diversity is Important for Business

Strategy Driven

Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues. Black professionals do not just participate in African American community events. Holds benchmarks for Continuous Quality Improvement. We are a diverse population, and the same ways of communicating do not have desired effects anymore.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

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Corporate Universities Should Reflect a Company’s Ideals

Harvard Business Review

If the number of executives from other companies who have been benchmarking GE’s management-development centers is an indication, interest in creating corporate universities is on the rise. Superficial measures like number of classes or participants or even costs are not a real indication of value.

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Research: Stale Office Air Is Making You Less Productive

Harvard Business Review

In the first phase of our study, we enrolled 24 “knowledge workers” — managers, architects, and designers — to spend six days, over a two-week period, in a highly controlled work environment at the Syracuse Center of Excellence. What should leaders and building managers take away from these findings?

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How to Develop a Data-Savvy HR Department

Harvard Business Review

Keep these workers’ skills up-to-date by providing opportunities for advanced training; encourage participation in meet-ups, online user groups and forums; and support participation in professional groups and conferences. These expectations can be incorporated as explicit goals in performance management systems.

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Technology Can Save Onboarding from Itself

Harvard Business Review

The problem is that managers’ lives are busier than ever, so it’s simply not that easy to make sure an employee’s first few months at your company are as welcoming, stimulating, and productive as possible. How tools are changing the way we manage, learn, and get things done.