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Key HR Trends for 2022 and Beyond

HR Digest

More than a hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management laid the foundations for modern human resource management. For HR professionals, using data for people analytics can help them drive better business results and improve workforce management. Learn key HR trends to stay ahead of the curve in 2022.

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Tyranny of Metrics

Deming Institute

The bulk of Muller’s research is devoted to case studies in colleges, elementary schools, health care systems, policing, the military, business, finance, philanthropy and foreign aid. Deming cared most about how measurement was appropriately used to better understand and improve the overall system. It may well become a classic.

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Management Styles

Strategy Driven

Organizations should coordinate management skills into its overall corporate strategy, in order to satisfy customer needs profitably, draw together the components for practical strategies and implement strategic requirements to impact the business. This is my review of how management styles have evolved.

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The Big Picture of Business – Corporate Cultures Reflect Business Progress and Growth.

Strategy Driven

Organizations should coordinate management skills into its overall corporate strategy, in order to satisfy customer needs profitably, draw together the components for practical strategies and implement strategic requirements to impact the business. This is my review of how management styles have evolved.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world. Locke of Brown University.

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Stop Trying to Control People or Make Them Happy

Harvard Business Review

It has been more than 100 years since Frederick Taylor, an American engineer working in the steel business, published his seminal work on the principles of scientific management. But, for too many companies saddled with approaches to management that are outdated and ineffectual, it presents a seemingly insurmountable challenge.