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CPG Hiring Trends

N2Growth Blog

After hundreds of interviews with fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) professionals, N2Growth identified the following trends: Consumers seek moments of happiness to escape reality and relieve the stress of the pandemic and the Ukrainian invasion. How common is it for CPGs to hire for key positions outside the industry? Why or why not?

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The Burden Imposed By Enforcing Worker Rights

The Horizons Tracker

“That claims-driven mechanism operates only as well as workers are able to surpass the myriad barriers to coming forward and seeing a claim through to the end. “People have to deal with both the exhausting bureaucracy of the claims process, and the constant fear of employer retaliation and blacklisting.”

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business Review

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies.

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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business Review

Streiff’s drive to speed up decision-making, overcome bureaucracy, and deliver rapid execution, exposed historic and deep divisions between executives at the consortium. At the other end of this dimension is the broader context, where politics operates at the organizational level. These can evolve into group-level behaviors.

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Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?

Harvard Business Review

In just days, the prisoners demonstrated symptoms of depression and extreme stress and the guards had become sadistic. We actually already know the answer: Positive Tickets. Their approach was to try to catch youth doing the right things and give them a Positive Ticket. The experiment was stopped early. The lesson?