In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. There was fallout when Marissa Mayer killed Yahoo’s popular work-from-home policy.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. Our focus on innovation in talent is what allows EY people to build meaningful careers with impact.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2022

As Artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent, businesses use it to improve their operations. Top 10 Applications of AI in Human Resource Management. This Artificial Intelligence, AI in human resource management, brings about an effective customer service department. AI in HR: What Exactly Does it Entail?

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HR Digest

AUGUST 12, 2020

Former Chief Operating Officer of Pinterest, Françoise Brougher, has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging gender discrimination and wrongful termination. When she sought mediation from the human resource department of the company, the matter was treated as a potential legal issue, and the in-house counsel was brought in.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

In addition to improving existing programs and practices, the effort led to a dedicated diversity talent acquisition team and greater HBCU and HSI partnerships, a sponsorship program to support career advancement, and other programs. What would you say have been the most interesting transformations in your career?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. Well actually, no it’s not. Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Having joined the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, she is now out to raise the bar for human resources leadership across the organization. ECRGs offer support, developmental opportunities, mentoring and networking opportunities to help members enhance their skills, foster allyship and inclusion, and help advance their careers.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Co-opted Board Member Ms Janice Tai also talked about her journey towards becoming a Chartered Manager and how this accreditation has empowered her career advancement in her position at an international non-governmental organisation.

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HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

The CHRO of IBM, Diane Gherson however, has different views and she has translated the term “human+machine interaction” into HRM practices. Human Resources has traditionally been very process driven. Diane Gherson is a trailblazer when it comes to introducing agile technologies in the gamut of Human Resources.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Our careers are a means to an end and if we’re lucky, it’s a means to happiness and joy because we love what we do! How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? So why am I writing about these two subjects as if they’re interchangeable? Because I believe they are. Interesting thoughts.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, Erni is widely considered one of the most influential leaders in human resources and her company, Audible, one of the most diverse employers in the world. For instance, during the pandemic Audible piloted our Returnship program to hire professionals returning to the workforce after a care-giving career break.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, Ernie is widely considered one of the most influential leaders in human resources and her company, Audible, one of the most diverse employer in the world. For instance, during the pandemic Audible piloted our Returnship program to hire professionals returning to the workforce after a care-giving career break.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The choice to stay in a very black and white world of facts and figures is important for keeping the trust of all team members—and is particularly relevant when you’re operating at one remove. Can you give me data about what’s been going on?” He said/she said is excruciating anytime.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. Mentoring, creating and leading have become the primary emphasis for your career. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. Predict the biggest crises that can beset your company.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

To help more workers thrive, and to make organizations more agile and efficient, we must understand these changes as they are occurring and redesign both business operating systems and our contract for work in America. They switch jobs frequently and their careers are more fluid and less linear than prior generations.

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HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Bring people into HR with extensive operational improvement experience. In HR, we need to focus on what is important.".

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

You might think that the corporate human resources function doesn't have much of a role in improving business processes, such as product development, operations, customer service, or distribution. In addition, they possess two key traits: Deep operational experience. But I've found that it does.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

That’s why some in the Army are considering a change in its up-or-out policy. But in the meantime, what can you do in an up-or-out environment to build your career without inflicting collateral damage? This made both operations centers more expeditionary, a critical capability for the training exercise and beyond.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Seth Goldman , the co-founder and CEO of Coca-Cola-acquired Honest Tea, thinks a policy of sharing rooms during business travel helps preserve the entrepreneurial mindset that infused the founding of his company. Companies Need to Have Across-the-Board Consistent and Transparent Policies. Fostering an Entrepreneurial Mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We We sat down with small groups of employees across functions and talked about everything — including leadership, operations, compensation, benefits, and staffing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Coco has a unique background because he's not a career HR professional; he started in operations at GE , where he was trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt process improvement expert. Lowe's also tries to assess the "people change" needs that will be required in future operational improvement initiatives — as much as three years out.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

According to a report by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the average cost of replacing a single employee can be as high as $4,425. Also, ask about the candidates’ career paths and goals to see if they align with what your company has to offer. Offer Competitive Salaries and Benefits.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

For me, creating fluency means building and operating systems that are unimpeded by interests that do not serve the raison d’être of the organization. Think of all the money that could be saved by eliminating the person who’s sole responsibility it is to make policies like that.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. And all firms should realize that in the war for talent, women are increasingly seeing entrepreneurship as a compelling alternative if a career path appears stunted.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees. The counseling is just one aspect of a broad commitment to embed gender considerations in all of KWFT's HR policies.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The problem is that office romance doesn’t sit well with human resources, especially when you’re hooking up with someone within your chain of command. These changes have been attributed to the rise of the third-wheel in the workplace, i.e. anti-harassment policies. Then again, be prepared for a career brick if things go south.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

That’s why, as Secretary of Defense, I took steps to transform the department’s personnel policies. It was clear to me then that the Defense Department would need to keep pace with the dramatic changes — many of them technological — reshaping the economy, the labor market, and human resource management.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Dave didn’t advocate any particular design model, just one the leader knows how to employ and one flexible enough to be applied to the range of organizational situations a leader faces in the course of a career. Operations Organizational culture' So leaders at many different levels need to get in on the act.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

It is first and foremost about creating a way of life in the workplace that integrates a total health model into every aspect of business practice, from company policies to everyday work activities. This, of course, takes time and support. There are a few simple ways to start doing this.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

There is a sense that company operations are out of control. Human resource administration, employee testing, behavioral research, executive search, talent pools, reorganizations, downsizing, executive outplacement, labor issues and negotiating. You offer a promising career and future for people with ideas and initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2016

But viewing reference checks as a formality is a mistake, according to Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. Be stymied by HR policies that disallow reference checks. “You can’t rely on your hunch,” she says.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Philip Morris International Operations Center Lausanne, Switzerland. Charles Bendotti: With more than 77000 global employees at PMI, collaboration for us unlocks unprecedented value and it is a necessity to ensure we can operate effectively. What do you say have been the most important transformations in your career?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 That’s what they have done for most of their careers. (2 Human resources management. Those who sell their own multiply produced works are designated as subcontractors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The only area where women pull ahead of men is in human resources, where they account for 71% of all HR managers. Real diversity efforts require organizations to address the social patterns that stifle women’s careers, not just the symptoms that result from them. But these efforts aren’t really working.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Nine of ten physicians surveyed had worked in permanent practice at some point during their careers, while 8% indicated that they had only worked as locum tenens. What Our Data Says.

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