Culture Shock in America?
Imagine you’re embarking on your first foreign assignment. With confidence, you accept that exotic assignment abroad. Destination: the United States of America.
But you soon discover that the Land of Opportunity is really the Land of “What’s Your Social Security Number?” It’s ironic that this would be the case in a country with one of the world’s most-traveled populations. Still, being sent to the United States … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Martha Finney | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Human Resources, International
ATB Manager’s Toolkit Nov/Dec 2001
What new employees really need to know; how to effectively manage your telecommuters; why you should take a hard look at your holiday party; and more.
Editor’s Note: This is a regular column that appears in Across the Board magazine.
Content: Article | Author: Melissa Master | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Best Practices, Management
Another God That’s Failed
Contingent work arrangements were supposed to help companies avoid mass layoffs. What went wrong?
Content: Article | Author: Shari Caudron | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Human Resources, Management
Hitting the (Political) Wall
Is there anything you can do when the office becomes a cold and lonely place? Yes, indeed, say these executives-and they wish they had.
Content: Article | Author: Phyllis Gail Doloff | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Career
Excellence Won’t Save You
Across the Board interviews Richard Foster, co-author of the book, “Creative Destruction”, who offers up some interesting analysis and advice for companies to stay at the top of their game.
Content: Article | Authors: A.J. Vogl, Richard Foster | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Management, Strategy
Richard Foster
I think control systems are one of the most important, least understood, and least examined aspects of management that we have today. Most companies tend to accrete their control systems, whether on the financial, production, or sales side. So over time you get hundreds of these systems. If you ask companies how many control systems they have, they don’t know. If you ask them how … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Management, Process
He Did It!
100 years ago, J.P. Morgan created the monolith named U.S. Steel. It was supposed to take over the market. What went wrong?
Content: Article | Author: Peter Krass | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: History, Industry Specific | Industry: Steel / Metals