Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. These are just a few examples.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

People are living longer with more access to medical care and innovations and progress in medicine. People have a longer lifespan with more access to medical care and innovations and progress in medicine. What can employers do to see that this workforce is given maximum benefits to enact the dual role efficiently and comfortably?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

.” That’s when Callahan’s team took an unusual step: The team created and linked an employee feedback system to its customer feedback system, in order to flag interactions where customers and employees had different perceptions. Companies rarely connect the two systems. Insight Center. Turning data into action.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

Perhaps human resources leaders are spending their money in the wrong places. As a former HR leader for a Fortune 500 company, I’m all too aware of how flawed the system is. They had a detailed strategic plan in place that included increased collaboration and innovation necessary to grow the business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The most motivated and productive people I’ve seen recently work in an older company on the American East Coast deploying innovative technology products to transform a traditional industry. Loyalty comes from the daily work itself, a sense of community accepting of individuality, and constant reminders that what employees do matters.

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HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

HR analytics, also known as people analytics or workforce analytics, is a data-driven approach that empowers Human Resources Management (HRM) by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting HR data. The term Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) emerged as organizations recognized the critical role HR plays in driving business success.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. But only the human oversight committee approves what gets “autonomized” and how it is implemented. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2011

To maintain high worker morale, productivity, and loyalty in such a diverse and changing conditions, IBM has placed new emphasis on the "resources" component of HR in four directions. First, it emphasizes equitable benefits for all, in all countries, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, or sexual preference.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

They also outperform their peers across the entire customer lifecycle, are nine times more likely to enjoy superior customer loyalty, and a remarkable 23 times more likely to outperform less analytical peers on new-customer acquisition. To affect changes in culture, some CMOs are partnering more closely with human resources.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

Systems and Processes. This means that company leadership is committed to: Establishing clear organizational vision, mission and priorities, which are translated into a four-year framework of goals, outputs, indicators, strategies and resources. Optimizing human resources and building capacity among staff to manage for results.

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Mentor Strategic Planning Leadership Benchmarking 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. We interviewed leaders in 37 private for-profit and non-profit primary care programs identified in the Center for Health Market Innovations database and operating in over 25 developing countries. He followed this with a focus on system optimization to reduce costs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

And you may end up like social media software startup Buffer, which struggled to achieve profitability because its generous cultural practices, including offering vacation bonuses and wellness grants, ate away at cash flow instead of producing employees who were passionate about the brand offering and committed to developing on-brand innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Many companies claim that hiring the best people is “job one,” but traditional hiring systems don’t make it easy. The Society of Human Resource Management found that 53% of companies that checked references uncovered falsities about the length of previous employment, and 51% discovered false claims about past salaries.

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