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A Culture of Excellence: An Interview with Melissa Strait

HR Digest

We continue to seek new ways to foster that culture, from Ignite Sessions between teams to share best practices and key learnings, to building a culture of recognition that encourages team members to recognize their peers for living our behaviors and delivering on our business objectives.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Development of core business supplier relationships. Running the business.

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Stop Operating with a Guild Mindset

Harvard Business Review

Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. But Frito-Lay stocks its own products. This gives it tremendous cost savings and the flexibility to launch and test new products.

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What is HR Analytics?

HR Digest

HR analytics, also known as people analytics or workforce analytics, is a data-driven approach that empowers Human Resources Management (HRM) by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting HR data. The term Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) emerged as organizations recognized the critical role HR plays in driving business success.

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Data-Driven Decision Making in HR

HR Digest

In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of data-driven decision making. This is especially true in the field of Human Resources (HR), where the effective management of talent is crucial to the success of any organization. Here are some steps to get started: 1.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Managing People from 5 Generations

Harvard Business Review

But whether this multi-generational workplace feels happy and productive or challenging and stressful is, in large part, up to you: the boss. Meister, a founding partner of Future Workplace, a human resources consultancy and the coauthor of The 2020 Workplace. How should you relate to employees of different age groups?