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Researchers Propose A New Approach To Tackling The Gender Pay Gap

The Horizons Tracker

“Because the firm’s human resources goals are embedded in the structured approach, you’re improving the degree to which people are paid more for high performance, education or other desirable factors,” the researchers explain. This finding prompted a change in the company to try and achieve pay equity.

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The Part-Time Workforce Are A Hidden Talent Pool

The Horizons Tracker

Part-time workers represent a significant, yet underutilized, human resource pool with aspirations for increased working hours. An untapped resource Willing workers, eager to contribute, face the challenge of being screened out by hiring algorithms due to factors such as employment gaps or other perceived “red flags.”

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Organizational Altruism Affects Whether Job Candidates Haggle On Salary

The Horizons Tracker

Altruistic organizations undoubtedly perform their good deeds for their own sake, but research from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin suggests it might also influence whether job candidates negotiate on their salary or not.

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Saudi Arabia’s Labor Market Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Critical and innovative thinking, as well as societal expectations for individuals to work hard in return for their grades and wages, are not yet widely taught in schools or universities. Human resource recruitment and management in the private sector is another variable. Education is the starting point.

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Why You Should Tell Your Team to Take a Break and Go Outside

Harvard Business Review

Wellness programs are becoming an integral priority for most human resource managers. Greenery isn’t just an air-freshener that’s pleasant to look at, it can actually significantly boost employee well-being, reduce stress, enhance innovative potential, and boost a sense of connection.

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What I Learned from Transforming the U.S. Military’s Approach to Talent

Harvard Business Review

It was clear to me then that the Defense Department would need to keep pace with the dramatic changes — many of them technological — reshaping the economy, the labor market, and human resource management. To do so, the Pentagon proposed some important and innovative improvements, but although the U.S.

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What Facebook’s Anti-Bias Training Program Gets Right

Harvard Business Review

The consequences of such insidious biases can be quite costly to an organization, from leading it to hire or promote the wrong candidates to investing in less innovative ideas just because of who proposed them to crossing ethical boundaries. Raise awareness and acceptance of the influence of bias. not having prejudice).