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Bosses More Likely To Express Religion At Work Than Employees

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers used survey data collected from a representative sample of employed adults in the United States. “We found that those at the bottom of their organizations may have more limited ability to draw on the resources of religion to cope with the stresses of work,” the researchers conclude.

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How to write a request for a pay hike

HR Digest

Below is a sample of a well written professional salary increase letter. Human Resource Manager, ABC Company, Dear Sir, This letter is a request for a salary raise. I believe my performance in improving the company’s sales record and work in the innovative product that has done so well in the market speaks for itself.

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Don't forget! Tomorrow you can to put a question to renowned management thinker Julian Birkinshaw

Chartered Management Institute

He is also Research Director and Co-founder of the Management Innovation Lab. Read a sample chapter of Julian Birkenshaw’s book Reinventing Management and tell us what you think. Julian is Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School. You are not watching this post, click to start watching.

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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

Coaching Tip

The report consists of responses from an unparalleled participant pool of 13,124 global leaders and 1,528 human resource executives within 2,031 participating organizations. Across the entire sample, on average, only 46 percent of available positions could be filled immediately by internal candidates.

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Consider three aspects: Reinvestment: In emerging markets, women reinvest a staggering 90 cents of every additional dollar of income in "human resources" — their families'' education, health, nutrition (compared, by the way, to 30-40% for men. That''s 72 million jobs just from this small sample. And in the U.S.,

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Indeed, the TFA application process is highly selective and consists of multiple steps.

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Experiment with Organizational Change Before Going All In

Harvard Business Review

Say you introduce an innovative new customer-relationship-management (CRM) tool for your sales force, and revenue increases by 15%. When such simple randomization is not feasible due to logistics, ethics, cost, or sample size, more sophisticated analytical techniques can be employed. Change management Human resources Operations'