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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

Amidst their country’s tech talent shortage, HP Indonesia is doing its best to focus on its employee retention instead of acquisition efforts, according to Human Resources Online. Oracle NetSuite posits that 66 percent of workers realize their job is a bad fit after joining a company and half of them quit within 6 months.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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Should Your Voice Determine Whether You Get Hired?

Harvard Business Review

The development of different apps, software, and algorithms has produced many novel methodologies for screening job candidates and evaluating their potential fit for a role or organization. Finally, we should think carefully about the ethical implications of adopting this method. Hiring Human resource management'

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Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out

Harvard Business Review

In the quest to improve productivity and work life, the information that companies can analyze about you at work is limited only by software. They responded more positively if they received “an ad for a lawn mower next to diapers.” Human resources Information & technology Managing people' Beware Big Data’s Easy Answers.

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Why – and How – to Hire Young People Without Diplomas

Harvard Business Review

When an executive at global services firm UBS Americas challenged trainees to design a cost-saving strategy, one young woman proposed that the company install software that puts a computer into sleep mode after a period of inactivity. Measure and improve over time. Wegmans grocery chain sets an example.

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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

In several survey studies, we demonstrated that when employees perceive their leaders as too ethically driven, they demonstrated the same negative behaviors that were shown when leaders were perceived as very unethical. Only leaders perceived as moderate in their ethical requests were effective in promoting positive employee behavior.

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It’s Better to Avoid a Toxic Employee than Hire a Superstar

Harvard Business Review

” The idea that a negative has a stronger impact than a positive has been established in fields like finance ( losses have more of an impact than gains), psychology (people remember bad experiences more than good ones), and linguistics (we pay more attention to negative words than positive or neutral ones).