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Stop Bribing and Starting Leading

The Practical Leader

Many managers need to stop bribing and start leading. Here’s a summary of the difference between management push and leadership pull: Manipulative Management. Participative, respectful partnerships. Management decides who gets rewarded and recognized for meeting their goals. Good managers often empower.

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IRL: New Rules of Return-To-Office

HR Digest

You can get started by eliminating all meetings that lack a concrete agenda and when one can be justified, going around the table at the end and having each participant review their action steps that have been agreed upon. How can I formally request my boss that I want to continue working flextime?

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Interact with Employees and Impact Productivity

Coaching Tip

Gallup also found, in a separate study ( [link] ), that regardless of the number of hours worked, weeks of vacation time or a company''s flextime policy, engaged workers have a higher overall level of well being. The latest findings are consistent with other Right Management workplace polls, noted Morrow. Only 36% said they had not.

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With Flextime, Bosses Prefer Early Birds to Night Owls

Harvard Business Review

Flextime programs have never been more popular than they are today. make the case that depending on what the manager attributes the flextime use to, the employee may be either rewarded or penalized. make the case that depending on what the manager attributes the flextime use to, the employee may be either rewarded or penalized.

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Flextime Is Declining, But “Flex Around the Edges” Is Up

Harvard Business Review

Are such “right to request” laws indicators of a rise in flextime? Or do they reflect a fear that flextime programs are being eliminated? New research from the Families and Work Institute (FWI) and the Society for Human Resource Management finds an “on the one hand, on the other hand” contradiction.

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How to retain parents after parental leave

HR Digest

With clear-cut planning and by specifying an in-house concept for parental leave, you can provide guidance for HR managers and other responsible leaders. Do you offer a variety of work time models like flextime, part-time, job sharing or remote work? 82% of participants report positive impact of the program on gender balance.

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Elder Care, Child Care, and the Struggles of Chinese Women

Harvard Business Review

Yeah, we hold up half the sky," recently quipped a female senior manager for a multinational pharmaceutical company, "but there are 5,000 years of history dragging us back.". Among the suggestions and solutions aired by conference attendees: Flextime is still relatively unknown in China. Motherhood amplifies the issues.