HR Digest

JANUARY 18, 2022

Hiring processes have become so streamlined and automated that only companies with significant human resources departments feel obligated to manually sift through hundreds of applications each week looking for talent. When writing your resume or CV, keep it interesting by including some industry terms to help you land the job.

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Document Education Finance Audience 97

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

For example, Megan, a woman we spoke to who works in finance, explained that after being harassed by a colleague, she went to HR and asked to move to a different position. Her request was not granted, and not long after, she was written up for an unrelated and trivial infraction. I just had a crown and a root canal last week.’”

Report 11

Report Long-term Training Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

The bricoleur is a French term for the person who employs such construction methods—in short, a handyman or jack-of-all-trades. If they find that there is high usage, they can then negotiate terms and agreements. Theirs is a “bricolage” approach to digital. Microsoft, IBM, and Google offer similar services.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Companies can be divided into two types , in terms of how they approach hiring and compensation: organizational oriented and market oriented. The shorter-term orientation discourages employers from bearing risks on behalf of their workers and encourages them to use employment practices that lower direct costs and increase flexibility.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Year-on-year price increases for existing therapies have allowed the industry to maintain profitability, but those short-term fixes have come at a heavy cost: decreased public satisfaction with the industry and increased political scrutiny. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the lowest number since 2007.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Japan’s Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry published The Ito Review in 2014 which points to integrated reporting as a way to combat “short-termism.” Managers may soon be held much more accountable for demonstrating that they make rigorous decisions about human capital and organizational capability.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today. What do you mean by that term? What they realize is that they’ve always treated finance and financial management as a tier-one asset. They’ve treated human resources and human resource management as a tier-one asset.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The short time horizon topics (e.g., A regular operational meeting needs to be crisp and therefore as short as possible. In contrast to the discussion in the operational meeting, use this roundtable to highlight mid- and longer-term priorities, opportunities, and concerns. Less urgent topics and can be discussed less frequently.

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Short tenure in consulting, believing that recent corporate experience readily translates to the entrepreneurial marketplace. Human resources management. See consulting as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. Entrepreneurial, small business management. Academic, research.

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But let’s change what we’re asking: Which has the better potential to scale up and create long term value for customers, owners, investors, and employees? Havens, accustomed to selling benefits services to Fortune 1000 human resources departments, found its key contact person assigned to IBM procurement instead.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

It's about life, tragedy, and human potential. It is, in short, about you and I, and the places we seek for ourselves in the world. These are the terms of the debate we're not having. Unless you believe that Abraham Lincoln, too, for a few extra bucks, might have joined Barclays as a Senior Advisor for "Human Resources.".

Price 14

Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

His horizon was exceedingly long-term. The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. A natural reaction would have been to obey the short-term signals and retrench and, indeed, that’s what most of our competitors did, dismissing up to 50% of their staffs. But we barely downsized.

Management 8

Management Uncertainty Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. About three-fourths of short-term acute-care hospitals lost money treating Medicare patients in 2016, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent agency established to advise the U.S. .” The losses of U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

You owe it to your job to think about it long term,” Clark says. Make sure you develop thoughtful responses to future questions in interviews about your short tenure at the job, emphasizing that you felt it wasn’t a good fit for your skills and goals. Be humble enough to thank them and try to leave on good terms.”.

Short-term 8

Short-term Career Long-term Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

"This is the first step in getting a job, so you have to persuade the initial screeners that you are a good candidate," says Peter Cappelli, a professor at The Wharton School, the Director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, and author of " Talent Management for the Twenty-First Century." Play the long game.

Sample 15

Sample Case Study Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Successfully implementing such a capability could dramatically affect headcount in human resources functions, but also in other functions, such as sales. Firms need skilled workforces, and in a labor market short on certain digital skills, they can’t rely on external hires to get the capabilities they need.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The revolution ran on equity capital, which was in short supply. DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. The lesson: Return on Equity, like peacock tail splendor, is a very poor guide for allocating resources. It fails for two reasons.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12