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Checklist for HR Department: A Step by Step Guide

HR Digest

Startups rarely have a dedicated HR staff, and often there’s one person handling all human resource affairs such as hiring, payroll, benefits and compensation, grievances, and other employee-related tasks and queries. Since you have a rough estimate of future hiring needs, it makes sense to budget for it. You need a system.

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Accenture to lay-off 25,000 low performers

HR Digest

” Earlier in July, the company cut 900 jobs in the UK, citing a downward curve in market demand. ” Accenture has cut down travel budgets, cut back contractors were required, and was limiting new recruiting, the report stated. Also, we have identified structural costs that needed to be addressed immediately.”

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Walking Away from the Big Bucks in the Pursuit of True Balance.

Women on Business

For most of my prior career, I was a woman who: was happily married, may never have children, would earn a six figure income, was a loyal employee, was an over achiever, traveled to exotic places, would live in my dream home, and wanted to be involved in the highly charged corporate world forever!

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Investigate those doing what you want to do.

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Balancing Parenting and Work Stress: A Guide

Harvard Business Review

A strong organizer juggles the myriad demands and endless details of their dual role effectively with task lists on their phone; the creative thinker comes up with an unusual but happy child care arrangement that accommodates their frequent last-minute business travel.

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How to Handle Work When Your Child Is Sick

Harvard Business Review

Put key resources in place ahead of when you need them, and you’ll avoid undue emergency. Find — and budget in — the resources. But to the practical and financial extent possible, try to find the extra resources that will help sustain your family and performance when your child is ill.

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

They pay upwards of $300K to $1 million to consultancy firms that conduct market analyses and in-depth need-finding, identify new opportunities, generate promising ideas, and, often, develop ideas into working prototypes. The client company then refines these concepts and prototypes and takes them to market. A Different Approach.