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How To Win With People Analytics

HR Digest

Workers are always subjected to performance monitoring where business profit dominates the employer-employee relationship, and workers need a nice and charming life, paid for by their work and commitment to their employer. Today, in any case, the business relationship is changing, and there is a novel “catalyst” in the workplace.

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Fire the Slugs! And Other Great, No-Nonsense Ways to Retain Your Best People

Strategy Driven

If you are going to maximize your organization’s performance you have to make a conscious, binding top-down management decision and commitment to develop a no nonsense approach to retention. The following are several must-do actions items for retaining the high-value human assets you’ve worked so hard to acquire: Start at the top!

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The Family Dynamics We Grew Up with Shape How We Work

Harvard Business Review

It influences whether they have close or distant relationships with the people who report to them, communicate directly or indirectly, micromanage or empower, encourage debates or shut them down. This, in turn, can derail even the most committed parent and undermine a child’s future ability to deal with stress.

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How to Manage Your Star Employee

Harvard Business Review

And don’t micromanage. ” If a formal promotion is not possible, or your employee is not quite ready for one , think creatively about ways to sharpen her leadership skills. Today Laura manages a team of 15 employees and has responsibility over facilities and human resources, among other areas.

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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

But consider the micromanager who asks you to document every step of your calculations so that he can be sure you got the right answer. Consider, for example, research I and several collaborators published in Leadership Quarterly. That in turn hurt morale and left employees feeling mistrustful. Would you feel trusted by that person?

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Workplace Bullying: Little-Known Factors to Help You End Bullying At Workplace

HR Digest

Micromanage the worker and clinically scrutinizing the employee’s work to highlight incompetence and find reasons to abuse the worker. Lastly, report to your Human Resources personnel and also be sure to send a follow-up email to your HR thanking them for listening to your concerns.