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How Organizational Factors Can Facilitate HR Strategies and Practices

Mostafa Sayyadi, Author, Transformational Leadership: How To Prosper as a Leader In Today’s Hypercompetitive Environment HR managers can enhance the organization’s intellectual capital and ultimate performance. The question arises whether organizational factors themselves can be a source of effectiveness for HR strategies and practices. I pose that an ineffective vision and strategic plan may expose organizations to missed […]

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Hot Topics for Managing People

Management

Cornelia Gamlem & Barbara Mitchell, Authors, The Big Book of HR Anyone who manages people in today’s challenging world knows that it doesn’t get easier – just more complicated and, for that matter, more interesting. The Big Book of HR has been revised and expanded to reflect some of the new realities leaders and managers face.

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The New Dawn of Managing Your Human Resources

Management

Leslie H. Kaminoff, Author, THE GREAT MANAGEMENT RESET: 27 Ways To Be A Better Manager (Of Anything) As managers, we have all spent endless hours coming up with possible solutions to motivate our staff. Let us assume that each employee has all the necessary tools to perform their jobs effectively. These tools include technology and

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Mobilize Your Team for Success: The Power of Translation

Leadership, Management

Larry Solomon, CEO, Solomon People Solutions During my tenure as executive vice president of human resources at Dr Pepper Snapple, I worked with CEO Larry Young who recognized the strategic importance of a strong partnership between executive leadership and human resources. The impact of this belief in the strategic importance of people is evident in our

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De-Humanizing Your “Human” Resources

Leadership, Management, Strategy

By reducing the Employee Engagement challenge to surveys and project management when it is really more a matter of institutional soulcraft, you run the risk of taking unearned comfort in the illusion of rigor: “This must be valid. There are many numbers, and many of those numbers have several decimal places!” You also run a serious–and

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Business Check-Up

Small Business

It happens every year. I start out with good intentions of making sure I have time for mid-year planning but things just seem to move too quickly and before I know it the year has passed and I have to scramble. This year I made a conscious effort to do a mid-year business check-up and

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Four Success Factors for Building the Executive Pipeline

Leadership, Management

Samantha Howland, Senior Managing Partner, Decision Strategies International Many organizations face a critical talent transition over the next decade. As experienced, senior leaders reach retirement age, trustees and senior executives cite succession planning as a crucial challenge considering the risks and requirements for smooth leadership transitions. Whether through internal promotion or external hires, many companies

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After the Crisis – “Retaining Talent”

Management

During the economic downturn of the late 2000’s companies everywhere struggled to survive. Many companies were forced to make decisions that directly affected their employees both in the short term and the long term. Companies reduced staff; cut wages; re-level employees; reduced benefits; reduced or even eliminated pension plans and post retirement health care; eliminated

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Employee Info: Why It’s Golden

Business Ops.

David Hassell No doubt you’ve fine-tuned the art of communicating to your employees. But what about turning the tables the other way? Since employees are closest to your business, they are the most likely source of new and innovative ideas. Do you really know how to tap into that valuable resource and what to do

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