HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

As the COVID-19 crisis takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of redefining jobs moves up the agenda. In an interview with The HR Digest, Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President Human Resources at Amazon, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role it plays to deliver real business results.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

We’re focused on building a culture of innovation that enables good ideas to thrive at any level of the organization, not just at the top. As one of the world’s largest employers with workforce all across the globe, what’s Inspire Brands’ best practices during crisis to ensure productivity and transparency?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Boards see the negative impact of a culture crisis on the value of their companies. The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. It is not an afterthought or a nice-to-have plan that they delegate to human resources to develop.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

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. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

It’s prompted economists to predict a recession that is twice as deep as that experienced after the 2008 financial crisis. They then attempted to control for various factors that might influence workplace performance, such as the region the firm was based in, the size of the workforce, and the industry the company operated in.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

She faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Human Resource Champions (1996). It is one of the most popular and frequently discussed books in HR. 2) Fear of conflict. By Daniel H.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Faster innovation. This is not something that can be conducted alone by internal human resources departments. Quality should be viewed as a journey, rather than a destination. Higher sales.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Enterprise IT is in crisis — no doubt about it. As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession.

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Women in the LEAD

JUNE 25, 2010

It lines up all the laws of nature as they operate both inside and outside of you, to get its way. Right now, with so many situations in crisis, we need to keep ourselves focused on a positive vision of our future. It mobilizes the many mental powers that you possess, most of which you never consciously use.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 31, 2010

They are also imposed to provide structure in organizational settings that support the work and build a broad framework within which individuals are free to operate and contribute. They stifle creativity and innovation. link] LeadershipNews: A Leadership Crisis or a Branding Issue? · Theme: Pilcrow by Automattic

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

We have a crisis in health care delivery, and if we can fix that problem we’ll have more than enough resources to cover all the uninsured and underinsured. a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. It also pursued process innovations that resulted in cost savings.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Most of the regulation was meant to safeguard the financial system, and the taxpayers who had to bail it out, from another crisis. The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.

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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. One result was the innovative supplemental health insurance product MFW launched in April 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

But must employees, investors, and other constituents accept harmful employment cultures in fast-growth organizations until a crisis occurs? But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. In one word: No.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Too much efficiency can be just as deadly as too little, if it leaves an organization unable to cope with change — either because it's too fragile to survive a crisis or too rigid to adapt to industry changes. In combat, the fact that someone is actively trying to disrupt your operation changes the calculation.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

Strategic and operational paralysis has become the norm. Innovation is something other companies do. Too many operational changes. Political animals rise in the corporate pecking order. Pessimism becomes the common cultural thread. Resumes are being up-dated and posted online. The latest strategic plan isn’t one.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

This company operates its democracy to the extent that: Employees set their own work schedules They don’t use the same workstation more than two days in a row so that no one really knows when they go to work or how long they stay. But what does a truly democratic workplace look like?

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