Chart Your Course

JANUARY 7, 2013

A 2012 survey by human resource firm LRN Corporation found that bosses who genuinely trusted their workers and gave them more autonomy saw these benefits: less misconduct and absenteeism, as well as greater engagement, innovation, customer service and financial growth. Plus, upper management can benefit from mentoring.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 3, 2020

The paper highlights the psychological costs associated with moving away from your hometown or homeland, but also how these costs can be mitigated by sensitive policies and management. The researchers quizzed workers at an Indian technology company. Creating a bond. Global personality.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists. Eliminating layers of management. As the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

He was able to spend time building his lifetime bond with his daughter, and to be present throughout her one and only (and all-too-fleeting) childhood. With today’s information technology, more and more work can be done in places other than the office and at times outside of traditional business hours.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Employee trust in management and commitment to the company have been in decline for decades. Only a minority of companies have managed to buck this decline and have built companies worthy of the human spirit. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. How do they do it? First, it must start with the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

Yet few organizations offer clear guidelines on the nuts-and-bolts of managing leave. Allison Falender is a technology manager at Shell, who is currently planning a maternity leave for the birth of her third son in September. patent agent and a liaison between technology and the intellectual property office,” she explains.

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