HR Digest

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Image credit – Freepik Benefits of Having HR as a Strategic Partner HR as a strategic partner can mean many different things for an organization according to the area it invests the resources in. Retaining talent takes active planning, and when it is treated as an administrative task the results of recruitment are often unsatisfactory.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

At Moderna, Chief Human Resources Officer Tracey Franklin is leading the charge in building a high-performing, diverse workforce that fuels groundbreaking discoveries. When making strategic decisions, that is the balance you consider between short-term needs and long-term vision for the organization?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2019

Of course, people have always worried that technology would take over their job. Gutenberg’s press probably created more social upheaval than any technological advancement has yet to do today. The term artificial intelligence first appeared in an article by Stanford professor John McCarthy in 1979. A dire situation indeed.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 23, 2021

Have SMART Long-term Goals. Whether you start with a short or long-term goal, you want to ensure the goals are smart. Start with a long-term goal. You can then set short-term goals to guide you in achieving the overall objective. Technology. This also includes business processes and technology.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

He’s like the high IQ, low EQ, dehumanizing retail/technology global VP who joined us (and met the Canadian leadership team for the first time) at a strategic planning retreat a few years ago. He said, “Life’s too short to live in such a toxic culture no matter how much money they throw at me.”

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Chart Your Course

MAY 6, 2013

In the short term, you may be confident that she understands the functionality of the system. How agile will she be in adapting to change if the company were to switch CRM systems, and does she posses the initiative in learning and implementing new technologies that comes from having the well developed skill of continuous learning?

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Change is the only constant and agile HR appears to be the next evolutionary stage of human resources in an organization. This applies to the adoption of agile HR practices and their contribution to people management as well, if they want to assist their company in improving their response time.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

While challenging, this process brought a discipline into Neustar that has served as the foundation for a heightened focus on our employee experience – a formal and regimented change management process. Several key programs, co-created by management and employees, have set the tone and course for how we have navigated Neustar’s evolution.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 2, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S. License.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

In an interview with The HR Digest, Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President Human Resources at Amazon, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role it plays to deliver real business results. Employee-led resource groups (ERGs) are one of Amazon’s core strengths.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The risk is that when faced with the intense pressure an external shock, such as a recession, places upon managers, they can be tempted to take short cuts, reduce costs to the bone, and fundamentally break these implicit contracts, both through reducing pay and benefits, but also shortchanging employees in a variety of ways.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2015

There is still a propensity to use the word manager verses leader which can have a significant different intend and meaning. Managers tend to govern over process, data, projects and products while leaders tend to utilize human capital to navigate these same areas and participate as part of the process.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

These days, businesses have more options than ever before to customize the live support experience — and technology is playing an increasingly vital role in keeping customers satisfied. Believe it or not, dogmatically squeezing every last cent out of wages and employee costs can actually lead to higher spending in the long term.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 23, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S. License.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

In the masculine model of success, power and prestige take precedence, compassion, and long term consequences are secondary. He ” by Robert Johnson is about the myth of Perceval and the Holy Grail. Now, it is, in essence, a mystery story and a precursor of the Indiana Jones films. Think about our world at this time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2023

While prioritizing customers over employees can drive short-term revenue growth, it will cost companies in long-term employee retention and engagement. Decades of business strategy have urged leaders to concentrate the bulk of their business efforts on the customer experience.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

This short-term view is not what is best for your business going forward and could be highly damaging. It is a long-term investment that will pay you great dividends in the future. If your business is to thrive, it is essential that you manage your workforce effectively. This is a mistake but there is more bad news.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 10, 2011

In organizations, for example, when we have researched workplace leadership styles, women tend to excel in listening, empathizing and sharing information, while men often stand out in short-term decision making, direct communication and curbing their emotions.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

This we believed to be particularly true in terms of the sorts of brands that we were going to be offering. It was going to be, what Katie terms, ‘a revolving closet for every woman in America.’ That was all that we had in mind as we started off on this. We are still waiting to see how it will all pan out.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma. However, since the new tax changes are only in effect from January 1, 2010 until December 31, 2012, we may face another estate tax controversy down the road.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

By Dave Aron, Global Research Director, Leading Edge Forum, DXC Technology. This is especially important and challenging in the IT and digital domains, because the “artist formerly known as the IT organization” is evolving rapidly as new technologies take hold. Managers lose the automatic right to “own” staff.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Digital therapeutics are technology-based solutions that have a clinical impact on disease comparable to that of a drug. They primarily use consumer-grade technology such as mobile devices, wearable sensors, big data analytics, and behavioral science and can be delivered through web browsers, apps, or in conjunction with medical devices.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

In my work with employers (usually advising on work-family balance for fathers), I sense that many managers believe in giving more employees this kind of flexibility — allowing them to fashion the particular arrangements that work for them while minimizing disruption of the workplace. This is particularly true of knowledge work.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. Human Resources Oversees Training. See training as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. I recommend that team building training be conducted as part of a company Strategic Plan, with top management participating.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. Winning in the future will require a rigorous approach to accessing and managing independent workers. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

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HR Digest

MARCH 26, 2021

The management in such organizations is bound to be walking the proverbial balancing rope. The first and foremast task for supervisors and the management is to avoid the pitfalls of stereotyping and age bias. Meeting career expectations and job profile perspectives become difficult tasks for any manager in such a scenario.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Every year, the Manpower Group, a human resources consultancy, conducts a worldwide “Talent Shortage Survey.” A worldwide scheme by thousands of business managers to manipulate public opinion seems far-fetched. The issue is confusing because the skills required to work with new technologies are hard to measure.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Marriott’s Flex Options for Hourly Workers program offers a similar service, helping 325,000 older “associates” around the world transition out of physically taxing roles by teaching them new skills on the job, while United Technologies invests $60 million dollars annually in its Employee Scholar Program. And profits are up 18%.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today. What do you mean by that term? The first is this notion that the challenges at work, the challenges of managing modern work, really are a crisis. Almost half of the respondents say that they are requesting tools to manage work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

One of the most common ways to reference check a job candidate is to talk with their former managers over the phone. But in today’s dynamic, knowledge-based workplace, where work is often accomplished by teams working closely together, is talking to a manager really the best way to assess a potential employee’s fit?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In my consulting work with large, multinational companies, I see a pervasive anxiety among managers who have trouble finding people for skilled positions, no matter what industry or region. As a result, they tend to focus narrowly on technology skills, the Accenture survey reports. For instance, at one U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

Other feedback may be within the company’s control, but difficult to change in the short term, such as the quality of facilities, the title or level of the job in question, or the compensation and benefits package being offered.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

The bricoleur is a French term for the person who employs such construction methods—in short, a handyman or jack-of-all-trades. APIs are a technology that allows firms to interact and share information with other firms at an unprecedented scale. Theirs is a “bricolage” approach to digital.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

-based companies, I’ve spoken with hundreds of high-performing working parents, and, on the hunt for real, feasible solutions, asked the same questions again and again: What advice has been the most valuable to you over the long term as a working parent? Manage the village. Think long-term to stay in the game.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. Companies can be divided into two types , in terms of how they approach hiring and compensation: organizational oriented and market oriented.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. By investigating resources MOST open to you, momentum increases. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Managers typically assume that a worker who meets minimum qualifications can be taught pretty much any job in a short time. But that doesn't mean human workers are less valuable — quite the opposite. Robots and computer-operated tools are everywhere. Of particular importance is the hire.

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