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Creating a Desirable Employee Value Proposition (EVP)

HR Digest

The labor market remains tight for all industries and across all skill levels indicating that companies are having difficulty finding the right talent across a wide range of occupations. The good news is that 28% of businesses reported raising compensation in order to give bargaining power to talented workers. As the U.S.

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Microfinance Is Good for Women, but It's Only Part of the Solution

Harvard Business Review

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. We concluded that in order for women to reach their full potential in the global marketplace, governments and business leaders must help them move beyond microfinance.

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Give Your Organization a Work-Life Vision

Harvard Business Review

Research shows that an organization’s work-life culture – all the unwritten yet well understood norms and expectations about how people are supposed to work, and what it means to be a good employee – has enormous power over behavior. You know the refrain: “In this market, we’ve all got to work harder.”