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360-Degree Feedback Programs To Help Your Company Grow

HR Digest

The 360 feedback encourages healthy team dynamics. Feedback from highly cohesive teams can provide the benchmark for other team settings as well. A company can internally generate the metrics relevant to them, formulate questions for each one, and then select the employees to be reviewers and reviewees.

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Is Employee Engagement Just a Reflection of Personality?

Harvard Business Review

they work for the same company, team, and boss), and why there is always demand for employees who display consistent levels of ambition, energy, and dedication, irrespective of the situation they are in. This is why two individuals may have very different levels of engagement even when their job situation is nearly identical (e.g.,

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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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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business Review

This is because promotions and salary increases at most business schools are primarily based on professors’ number of peer-reviewed, “A” journal publications (or those appearing in journals with the highest impact factor, or frequency of citation-counts).

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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. Regardless of IRB considerations, companies should certainly adhere to the core principles of ethical research. Problem is, that’s the wrong lesson.

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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. “We had to train harder, measure our goals better, and become a better team,” Bunge said. As a start, staff members had to become stronger, in more ways than one.

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How to Manage a Toxic Employee

Harvard Business Review

There’s that one person on your team — the bad apple who has nothing positive to say, riles up other team members, and makes work life miserable. The whole team suffers because of it.” Separate the toxic person from other team members. Don’t: Bring the situation up with your other team members.