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Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Attitude, Motivation

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Rotating employees from job to job helps companies fill skill gaps while allowing workers to enhance their careers.

Content: Article | Author: Samuel Greengard | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subject: Human Resources

Melcrum tracks trends in organizational development and presents best practice application of new concepts, tools and ideas to assist managers to make both profitable and responsible business decisions. Resources at the site are categorized under six main topics: corporate and internal communication, human resources, knowledge management, intranets and corporate responsibility. The structure of information at each of the six silos is similar, with a collection … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: MELCRUM PUBLISHING | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

While most corporations use some form of structured performance appraisal system, use of structured self-assessments of performance is much less common. Some systems include an objective self-evaluation as a part of the process. Others capture the data, but do not provide explicit self-other comparisons. Still others offer employees the opportunity to reply in a letter or through open-ended comments. Many do not include self-evaluations at … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: David Finch, John C. Scott, Ph.D., William H. Berman, Ph.D. | Source: Workforce Performance Solutions | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

Your aim is to deflect non-performers who look good on paper and talk a good game. Here are some tips for attracting viable candidates.

Content: Article | Author: Helen Kelly | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subject: Human Resources

People are not the most important asset of a company – they are the company. Everything else is an asset.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

In many fast-moving, successful companies, strong, successful leaders who fail a challenge present a real dilemma to the organization. Although failure is a powerful teacher, it can also throw sand in the gears of succession planning. The paradox is that even though Bob’s failure may make Bob a stronger leader, it may also make Bob seem weaker in the eyes of everyone else. Rarely is … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership

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Training new supervisors has a positive effect on all of the supervisor’s staff and produces more results than the supervisor was able to accomplish as an individual performer. While many companies offer some sort of management training, often it’s ineffective. But by adjusting when the training is conducted, what is included and who conducts it, you can make big differences in the effectiveness of your … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Kathryn Tyler | Source: Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) | Subjects: Education, Human Resources | Industry: Education / Training

To effectively delegate one must always delegate the tasks that he or she understands best and also likes most. If you assign tasks you don’t like, then you will have lost control. What we like least we pay the least attention, and the subordinate may very well take some initiative and make decisions which are not only contrary to our own best interests, but contrary … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Winning Associates | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

The problem with workplace bullying is that many bullies are hard to identify because they operate surreptitiously under the guise of being civil and cooperative. Although workplace bullying is being discussed more than ever before, and there may eventually be specific legislation outlawing such behavior, organizations cannot afford to wait for new laws to eradicate the bullies in their midst. In order to survive, organizations … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: John Richardson, Linnea B. McCord | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

A recurring theme in today’s business press is the notion that companies are engaged in a war for talent. The idea is that success in a hyper-competitive marketplace comes to those firms that can best identify, attract, retain and motivate top talent. The problem with this mindset is that it tends to downplay and, arguably, even stife the development of those who are not considered … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jean-François Manzoni, Jean-Louis Barsoux | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

In a knowledge economy, companies with the best talent win. And finding, nurturing, and developing that talent should be one of the most important tasks in a corporation. So why does human resources do such a bad job — and how can we fix it?

Content: Article | Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Human Resources

The human resource management profession faces a crisis of trust and a loss of legitimacy in the eyes of its major stakeholders. The two decade effort to develop a new “strategic human resource management” role in organizations has failed to realize its promised potential of greater status, influence, and achievement. To meet contemporary and future workplace challenges, HRM professionals will need to redefine their role … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Thomas A. Kochan | Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Subject: Human Resources

This article discusses a study of best practices among large firms in carrying out succession planning programs.

Content: Article | Author: Robert M. Fulmer, Ph.D. | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subject: Human Resources

Empowerment can be abandonment when employees are given responsibility without guidance or training. A vice president who suddenly shows up one day and tells his plant manager that he will have sign-off authority for $1 million instead of the $5,000 he formerly had isn’t empowering his employee, he’s setting him up to fail.

Content: Quotation | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

At a time when many corporations are engaged in unrelenting searches for ways to improve operations and reduce costs, there is one aspect of organizational life that has largely escaped scrutiny: Performance Appraisal. Perhaps this is because performance appraisals have become an unquestioned fact of life in most large organizations. As with most unquestioned facts, a critical examination can prove beneficial.

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Content: Article | Author: Fred Nickols | Source: Corporate University Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

You are the hiring manager with a nasty decision to make. Would you hire the lovable fool or the competent jerk? This Harvard Business Review excerpt suggests that the decision is complicated.

Content: Article | Authors: Miguel Sousa Lobo, Tiziana Casciaro | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

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