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Companies are struggling to fill open positions, but the job platforms they use often screen out promising candidates just because they don’t tick every box. Joseph Fuller probes the challenges—and opportunities—of “hidden workers.”

Content: Article | Author: Joseph Fuller | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

As a new era of work emerges in a post-pandemic world, leaders must take proactive action to avoid undoing decades of progress toward diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Content: Article | Authors: Dominique Harris, Kimberly Fulton, Preethi Prasad | Source: Kearney | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Although the data from exit studies are a lagging indicator (i.e., data are typically collected when an employee has already decided to leave an organization), studying exits is important for learning how to keep your other star employees and continually improving your human capital practices.

Content: Article | Authors: Camille Patrick, Dipak Sundaram | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subject: Human Resources

If you have technical skills without influence skills, you’re not going to go anywhere cause you can’t get anything done. If you have influence skills without technical skills, you may go places but you’ll get the wrong things done. So you really need both.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

From project-based work to a lack of hierarchy, the way people work is changing fast. In this episode of The McKinsey Podcast, Chris Gagnon and Elizabeth Mygatt talk about what it takes for companies to be “future ready”

Content: Article | Authors: Chris Gagnon, Diane Brady, Elizabeth Mygatt | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

When assessing a low performer, the most important set of exercises to run through are: What is this person’s job? What is expected of them? Do they know that? And then once they do, do they have the desire and the energy to fix it? Then you can go to them and clearly explain, “Here’s what’s expected of you. Here’s what you’re delivering. And here’s … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Molly Graham | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Most people can be exceptional and perform way better than they are today, under the right set of circumstances. And so the question for managers is whether those circumstances can exist in the role that that person is currently in, elsewhere in the company, or if it’s just not a fit at all.

Content: Quotation | Author: Molly Graham | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

As a manager, one of the best things you can do is to take your high-performers and make bets on them, stretching them and seeing what they’re made of. Sometimes people are capable of 10X of what you have them working on today. You just have to help them get there.

Content: Quotation | Author: Molly Graham | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

A culture that doesn’t just exist but that wins for your organization is one you must intentionally create. Strong organizations understand their unique culture, use multiple methods to continuously monitor the state of their culture and align the culture they want with business performance priorities — like attracting top talent.

Content: Article | Authors: Nate Dvorak, Ryan Pendell | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Culture, Hiring, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

A great deal of noble and important work has been done on DEI in recent years, but we have hit a ceiling.

Content: Article | Authors: Gabrielle Novacek, Jean Lee, Matt Krentz | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Retention is challenging for many organizations. Retention can also be complicated. Pay and promotions alone can’t keep your best people. And your top performers likely come from different generations and demographic backgrounds. If your employees can’t define your organization’s identity — and what’s distinctive about it — they are likely to head for the exit. This means culture needs to be a part of any … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Nate Dvorak, Ryan Pendell | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Culture, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

People with a high degree of narcissism get promoted faster, new research shows. Why?

Content: Article | Author: David Robson | Source: BBC | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Feelings are messengers of needs. Meeting needs unlocks positive feelings and energy; neglecting needs does the opposite. By integrating business objectives with meeting people’s needs, companies can make sure the strong wind of a positive emotional force is at their back. Emotions and feelings bring our needs — human requirements for survival — to our attention and strongly move us toward meeting them. 

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Content: Quotation | Authors: Carolyn Black, Chad Gomes, Jon R. Katzenbach | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Motivation, Organizational Behavior

An autonomous existence is heavily burdened and beset with fears, and can be endured only when bolstered by confidence and self-esteem. The individual’s most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action.

Content: Quotation | Author: Eric Hoffer | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Where self-advancement cannot, or is not allowed to, serve as a driving force, other sources of enthusiasm have to be found if momentous changes, such as the awakening and renovation of a stagnant society or radical reforms in the character and pattern of life of a community, are to be realized and perpetuated.

Content: Quotation | Author: Eric Hoffer | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Human Resources, Motivation, Organizational Behavior

Coaching is about looking beyond solving short-term problems and instead training people to uncover their own self-limiting mental habits, because only then is true, long-term transformation possible.

Content: Quotation | Author: Chris Holmberg | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Employees are now consumers of the workplace. A new generation of worker expectations, greater workplace transparency and a tightening labor market have driven companies to compete for candidates just as fiercely as their products have to compete for customers.

And companies like Glassdoor make it easy to anonymously review companies and managers. That gives workers the chance to consider insider reviews about companies and job opportunities … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Andrew Robertson, Ben Wigert | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

Business scholar Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic demonstrates, women’s confidence almost always aligns with their level of competence — or falls below it — which is not usually the case with men, especially at leadership levels. This is true primarily because the number of overconfident men tends to be relatively high. And overconfidence, and the assertiveness it engenders, can be extremely helpful to someone pursuing a senior position, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Sally Helgesen, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Women in Business

If you tell your employees that you want them to embrace teamwork, but then reward your work force based on what they accomplish individually, you’ve undercut your message. In all likelihood, the consequence will be that employees who want to be considered for a bonus may no longer want to perform or support “unseen” collaborative work, which, despite what the company posits, goes unrewarded.

Content: Quotation | Author: Susan David | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Motivation, Organizational Behavior

As humans, our brains are wired for bias. This means that we have to be intentional and systematic about welcoming diversity and establishing equity and inclusion. You can’t just assume inclusion will sprout organically once you’ve introduced more diversity.

Content: Quotation | Author: Massella Dukuly | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior