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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

Although including everyone involved in the project in an email is a clear sign of transparency, our results indicated that people evaluate this practice as signalling distrust, which reduces their own trust in, and commitment to, the organization. After a while, each new initiative that HR introduced was met with suspicion and laughter.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – The Ugly Truth About Partisan Public Project Labor Agreements

Strategy Driven

Public project labor agreements (PLAs) provide another hurdle, unless their employees choose to pay union dues. Bush’s prohibition on the requirement for project labor agreements on federal projects. Statistically small business, employers of at least 50 percent of our workforce, are struggling, and eager to get your business.

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