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To answer this question, you first have to answer another, says columnist Stever Robbins: Just what is it you are trying to motivate in your employees?

Content: Article | Author: Stever Robbins | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

I always tell people, if you think everything is about race, you’re going to be in a perpetual state of rage. If you think nothing that happens in life is about race, you are in a state of vapor. It is a matter of balancing this business of race and what role it plays.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Diversity

For better or worse, the 360-degree feedback tool is SOP in many organizations. Harvard Management Update evaluates the evaluation method-and sees room for improvement.

Content: Article | Author: Lauren Keller Johnson | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Human Resources

Companies keep sending employees overseas and losing them shortly after their return. This brain drain carries a high price tag – and it’s often avoidable.

Content: Article | Author: Carol Orsag Madigan | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

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Why many companies are using metrics from the cash flow statement, and not just the income statement, to measure annual performance and award bonuses.

Content: Article | Author: Marie Leone | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, Human Resources

Achieving the most productive combination of workers and work is about to become a great deal easier.

Content: Article | Authors: James Manyika, John E. Richards, Vivek Agrawal | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

Popular wisdom says layoffs are the reflex response for most businesses when the economy weakens. But Bain & Company’s year-long analysis of layoffs at S&P 500 companies proves that wisdom wrong. The results debunk four myths about downsizing. They reveal that: not all companies go into automatic layoff mode at the first hint of downturn; big job losses can actually hurt stock prices because they … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Darrell K. Rigby | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Economics, Human Resources

Listed as 1 of the top 10 management books to have in your management library by Richard Donkin.

Content: Book | Authors: Bernard M Bass, Gerald V Barrett | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Are Emily and Brendan More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal?

Though racial inequality in the U.S. labor market is understood as a persistent problem even today, it has been difficult to measure how such discrimination works. Do employers actively discriminate against African-American job applicants? Can such discrimination be proven? What is the effect of improved credentials for African-Americans? A new study offers the answers.

Content: Article | Authors: Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan | Source: Capital Ideas | Subjects: Human Resources, Miscellaneous

In his work as executive search consultant, Jerry Noonan has helped many types of organizations fill senior-level marketing positions. In this article, he outlines the critical skills that marketers need to have to build equity within their organizations.

Content: Article | Author: Jerry Noonan | Source: Spencer Stuart | Subjects: Human Resources, Marketing / Sales

Punishing a problem employee leaves you with . . . a punished problem employee. Is there a better way?

Content: Article | Author: Dick Grote | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Human-resources executives have long argued that superior people-management practices can significantly improve a company’s bottom line. But hard numbers detailing how best to motivate and reward the people on your team and in your company were tough to find.

In search of this kind of data, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a global human-capital consulting firm, explored and correlated the HR practices and financial fortunes of 750 companies … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Bruce Pfau, Ira Kay | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Best Practices, Human Resources

Are Psychometric tests a reliable method of selection? A US academic, Robyn Dawes and two headhunters, Robert Irving and Stuart O’Reilly of Whitehead Mann, debate the evidence.

Content: Article | Authors: Robert Irving, Robyn Dawes, Stuart O’Reilly | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

The worldwide trend toward defined contribution savings plans give individual employees more responsibility for their investment decisions. But are they up to the task?

Content: Article | Author: Richard H. Thaler | Source: Capital Ideas | Subjects: Finance, Human Resources

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People who don’t share our values are cancerous to the organization, regardless of their performance. In my experience, every time you invest trying to save these people you end up regretting it. It’s simply too difficult to change people’s values.

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

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When white male employees at Abbott Laboratories begin complaining that all the good jobs go to women, Miles White knows his diversity drive is a success.

Content: Article | Authors: C.J. Prince, Miles White | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Best Practices, Human Resources

Sometimes instruction needs to be serious, sometimes experiential, sometimes individual, and sometimes social. Sometimes content is the issue, sometimes it’s motivation, and sometimes learner preference. It all depends. Understand the primary goals of each instructional strategy, and get to know them well.

Content: Article | Author: Bettina Grahek | Source: Edu-Leadership | Subjects: Human Resources, Industry Specific | Industry: Education / Training