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HR Cost Cutting Measures to Trim the Fluff

HR Digest

Cutting costs is the oft-repeated phrase that companies are using to meet the downturn in the economy and the declining revenues and sales. For most, cost-cutting translates to job cuts in the organization. But there are other ways to tighten the belt and do operational budgeting. Training and Mentoring Programs.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Gioia supported Ford’s decision at the time, based on a plausible cost-benefit analysis. Yet the flaws in Ford’s analysis are immediately evident to someone properly trained in ethical reasoning. They will respond to ethical reasoning and can learn to apply it themselves.

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Intangible Loss of Outsourced Innovation

Mills Scofield

I’ve been thinking about the 2 nd , 3 rd order effects of outsourcing, especially now that some companies are either doing or seriously considering insourcing. I’ve wondered about the cost-benefit equation of in vs. outsourcing for a while. I agree with many who believe we learn by doing.

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Take It, Leave It, or Change It

The Recovering Engineer

The decision was to do a “cost-benefit analysis&# of our new situation. do your “cost-benefit analysis&# and choose one of these options: Take It Accept the change with all of its good and bad components, and realize that it is your choice to stay. Learn More… What Do You Think?

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The fact of the matter is that senior executives who rise to the C-suite do so largely based upon their ability to consistently make sound decisions. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision. The truth is that even leaders who don’t fail make bad decisions from time-to-time.

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A Better Metric for the Value of a Worker Training Program

Harvard Business Review

The United States has thousands of workforce development and training programs, run by the public, social, and private sectors. But according to the World Bank , only 30% of youth employment programs are successful, with many of those offering only marginal benefit. Most existing training programs do try to assess their effectiveness.

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Effectively Influencing Decision Makers: Ensuring That Your Knowledge Makes a Difference

Marshall Goldsmith

They worry over what the organization and their superiors ‘owe’ them and should do for them. Knowledge workers can be defined as people who know more about what they are doing than their managers do. Knowledge workers can be defined as people who know more about what they are doing than their managers do.

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