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360-Degree Feedback Programs To Help Your Company Grow

HR Digest

The 360-degree feedback system reduces the possible influence of bias as it considers multiple perspectives while making its calculations. It highlights both the strengths and weaknesses of an employee, providing a balanced review that can give management action points for the future. What Are the Benefits of 360-Degree Feedback?

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Projects Are the New Job Interviews

Harvard Business Review

interrogatory genre; the real question will be how well candidates can rise to the "appliject" challenge and help redesign a social media campaign, document a tricky bit of software, edit a Keynote presentation, produce a webinar or peer review a CAD layout for a contract Chinese manufacturer. Exploitive?

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Is Employee Engagement Just a Reflection of Personality?

Harvard Business Review

Even intuitively, it is clear that reviews are generally a mix of both, the rater and object being rated, and this could also apply to people’s evaluations of their work and careers. To illustrate this point, imagine that a friend tells you that she hates her job.

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Were OkCupid’s and Facebook’s Experiments Unethical?

Harvard Business Review

According to a multitude of critics, the companies stepped over an ethical line by playing with emotions without asking users’ permission. It’s hard to imagine a world in which companies didn’t try to influence our emotions. Regardless of IRB considerations, companies should certainly adhere to the core principles of ethical research.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. But are Bunge and other like-minded fitness executives really correct to assume that office work is comparable to sports, or that they can positively influence one another?

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