HR Digest

DECEMBER 16, 2020

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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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

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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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions. While doing business online is one of the biggest money-savers (cuts down on travel and meetings), it can also waste time through indirectness, poor timing, too much detail, or messages sent too quickly without thought or polish.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. In some larger nonprofit hospitals, there may be six.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Dina Bakst, founder of New York–based A Better Balance , is an advocate of making schedules predictable and avoiding telling employees at the last minute that they need to stay late, come in early, or travel on short notice. They can offer guidance on the costs of child care, budgeting for expenses, and FSAs, among other topics.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Perhaps it's easier to start by discussing the pathologies of a dysfunctional Chief of Human Resources Officer (CHRO). If your CHRO travels only to accompany you, or keeps in touch with staff primarily through email or one-way communication such as videocasts, you've got a problem. Your CHRO thinks of email as modern technology.

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