Posts Tagged Management
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Is Management Obsolete?
Interview by Donna M. Owens Having witnessed the end of apartheid in his native South Africa, Mark Addleson knows what it's like to see a society undergo transformational change. Perhaps that's why the business professor says it's possible—and necessary—to revolutionize U.S.…
May 17, 2012
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5 ways you can help younger managers view older workers differently
There is an explosion happening all around us. We are getting grayer as a society - much grayer. As a result, organizations are faced with a diversity-related challenge. Younger managers, on a much broader level than ever before, are finding themselves in the position of…
April 13, 2012 | in Workforce
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Cognitive Attrition and Employee Engagement (Part 3)
Note: This series is based on the paper My Generation. One of the biggest challenges in the modern workplace is employee engagement. An organization that struggles to keep employees engaged faces an onset of cognitive or mental attrition. So why do we need engaged employees? Engaged…
April 13, 2012 | in Workforce
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Executive Book Club: April 2012
17 Rules for Developing and Keeping Devoted Employees is a must read on how to foster commitment, respect, trust, honesty, fun and above all performance. Why people choose to work for you and why they stay. It’s not about money,…
April 11, 2012 | in Trends
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#NEXTCHAT RECAP: Is HR Ready for the C-Suite?
The time has come for HR to occupy a seat at the C-Suite table. Who better to advise and influence the CEO on corporate culture? Who better to recommend solutions regarding organizational health and workforce issues? Who better to identify talent from both a functional and cultural perspective? Who better…
April 5, 2012 | in Trends
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Make Managers Responsible
Corporate leaders are making more demands on managers to maintain high levels of employee engagement, and HR professionals are drawing on a variety of strategies to get managers involved in nurturing an engaged workforce. Employee engagement has a direct impact on worker performance, dedication to mission and drive in helping…
March 28, 2012
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Retaliation Claims Are Greatest Legal Risk
Retaliation claims have increased dramatically in the last two years, creating the most significant legal risk to employers today, employment law expert Joseph Beachboard told those attending the Society for Human Resource Management’s Employment Law & Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., on March 5, 2012. In 2010, retaliation claims for…
March 22, 2012
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We.Org: Moving Their Company Beyond Bureaucracy
The Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge, Part Two of the Harvard Business Review/McKindsey M-Prize for Management Innovation, seeks to advance progress on making organizations genuinely fit for human beings—more inspiring, open, and free. Management innovators from around the world in every realm of endeavor were invited to share the…
March 14, 2012 | in Trends
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Why Mission Statements Suck
I’m not arguing against a clear definition of where a company is going and what sets it apart. My beef is with the way the particular corporation’s guiding principle is expressed; it is generally verbose, convoluted and incapable of resonating with employees or inspiring them. I…
February 23, 2012 | in Trends
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Who Owns Your Company Talent?
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. It’s a popular cliché I’ve seen tossed around a lot. And I get the premise – strong cultures can make or break your organizational strategy. It’s true. But where does culture start? Well, Steve Boese recently…
February 21, 2012 | in Workforce
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Fewer Companies Offer CEOs Perks and Incentives
A steady cutback in nonperformance-based pay components Executive compensation packages in the U.S. are being dissected under a microscope as companies find it more difficult to offer perquisites and incentives without facing backlash from the public, according to Compdata Surveys'Executive Compensation 2011/2012 report. …
February 17, 2012
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Failure and Learning Through Leadership
Achieving milestones within a department or an organization is a process that involves a clear strategy, research, team members, and the flexibility to change and adapt along the way. Just like leaders, a company’s culture or environment doesn’t just happen. Great cultures are made…
February 15, 2012 | in Workforce
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I Love You
It is 9 am. The secretary reports to her desk. Waiting for her is a sealed card. The secretary opens the envelope and it is a Valentine's card from her manager. Having undergone sensitivity training, the manager signs it "fondly" as opposed to "lovingly." The…
February 14, 2012 | in Workplace
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Jobs Blog: When Demand Is Low, It’s Time to Train
Much has been said about the contribution of the “skills mismatch” to the United States’ elevated unemployment rate. Even President Barack Obama weighed in during his State of the Union address, calling it “inexcusable” that there are job openings in many industries that can&rsquo…
February 13, 2012 | in Workforce
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From Idle to Innovative: 8 Ways to Ignite Managers in the Middle
2011 Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge The Cleanup X Challenge offered $1 million to the team that could invent an oil-recovery system able to recover oil from the surface of the ocean at a rate two times the industry standard. The building and testing of such a device…
February 10, 2012 | in Workforce
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Next Generation Leadership – Have You Talked to a Customer Today?
Did you talk to a customer today? Simple yes or no answer. According to Frank Pacetta (a hero of mine) and his Blueprint for Success a “no” gets the leader or manager (CEO especially) an immediate failing grade. {click through and take the rest…
February 6, 2012 | in Trends
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Tools and Training Prepare Managers for Workplace Flexibility
During the past decade, much of work/life research has been dedicated to identifying and measuring the bottom-line benefits of workplace flexibility to an organization and its employees. Unfortunately, far less attention has been paid to the challenges that managers face when integrating flexibility into their work groups. A 2010…
February 1, 2012 | in Workplace
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Washington Wrap: SHRM’s ‘Top 8’ List for 2011
Between now and New Year’s Eve, just about everyone — from late-night comedy show hosts and newspaper editorial boards, to individual families — will be compiling their Top 10 lists for 2011. SHRM’s Government Affairs Team has taken a slightly different approach and compiled its Top 8 list of…
January 13, 2012 | in Trends
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How Mentoring Can Save Even the Most Downtrodden Managers
Mentoring Saved Best Buy’s Future President Brian Dunn started with Best Buy in 1985 selling VCRs, but his first day was so bad that he wanted to quit. He confessed to his store manager that it had been a “lousy experience.” At that the manager…
January 10, 2012 | in Workforce
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Fast Food Chain Dishes Up Employment
Officials at multinational companies in the Middle East often say they cannot find talented employees and junior managers among college and high school graduate applicants. Many students there study full time and graduate from universities without marketable skills or work experience. Experts say many lack standard skills such as…
December 28, 2011
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Why Middle Managers Are Ready to Demote Themselves (and what you can do about it)
Reality Check 52% of middle leaders claim they have more responsibilities since the recession but no new title 89% of middle leaders do not feel well-prepared to lead change and make tough decisions 83% do not feel satisfied with their overall performance as a business leader 70% would take a demotion to a non-leadership…
December 14, 2011 | in Workforce
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The HR Point of View
What’s your Philosophy on HR? Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to interview a lot of managers and leaders. One of my favorite questions to ask when I interview professionals who claim to have successfully managed people in the past is this: &ldquo…
December 9, 2011 | in Workforce
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Mobile Collaboration: An Interview with Michael Kroth, author of “Managing the Mobile Workforce”
The growth of mobile technology is simply staggering. According to mobiThinking, there are 5.3 billion mobile subscribers (that translates to 77% of the world's population.) By 2014, it's expected that mobile will overtake the PC as the most popular way to access the web. People are using mobile technologies for…
November 28, 2011 | in Workplace
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Businesses Face an Engagement Crisis
As the global economy recovers from the worst recession in decades, low employee engagement has hit epidemic proportions, according to Kevin Kruse, president and founder of Krū Research and co-author of the book We: How to Increase Performance and Profits Through Full Engagement (John Wiley &…
November 17, 2011
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How ‘Moneyball’ Measures Up as an HR Approach
Billy Beane, chief human resources officer? The corporate finance adage of “We cannot manage what we do not measure” echoes through many additional business functions and disciplines thanks to breakthroughs in data analytics, behavioral economics and the new “science” of decision-making.…
November 14, 2011
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Experts: Telework Still a Hard Sell for Managers
Supervisors find creative ways to engage remote employees What’s the biggest obstacle to telework? It’s not technology. It’s management. So some human resource professionals say they’ve begun to tie management acceptance of telework directly to managers…
November 10, 2011
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Profits Down? Your Risk Aversion May Be High.
There has been an astronomic increase in employment litigation. The result is that there is almost an apoplectic fear of litigation. Indeed, because the cost of litigation can be so high, sometimes we try to avoid risk at all cost. But we cannot avoid risk. It is not a question…
October 5, 2011 | in Public Policy
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Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader
The sudden, unexpected and potentially catastrophic event that threatens a business is a CEO’s greatest challenge. Ever since the Tylenol tampering recall 30 years ago, the performances of companies in crisis have come under public scrutiny. The entire world was touched by the most environmentally destructive business crisis of…
September 12, 2011 | in Workforce
