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Occupational Alcoholism Could Be Creeping Into Your Workplace Culture

HR Digest

Construction - 16.5 percent of construction workers drank heavily in the previous month. If an individual feels that not participating in work-related happy hours or drinking at a company party would stall their career in some way, I would remind them that they always have the option to not drink alcohol.

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S. It has trained more than 700 unskilled and displaced workers for well-paid jobs with defined career ladders in the biotech and health care sectors.

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Promoting the Non-Obvious Candidate

Harvard Business Review

Companies define career paths accordingly and carefully map, often in a linear fashion, the various roles one has to fill to reach higher management ranks. But they do have, say, strong leadership skills or a different set of experiences that may be useful in a wider context. Human resources Leadership Leadership development'

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

Is this a time to mount a campaign for Plan B, that other job or career youve been putting off looking into? Is this a time to mount a campaign for Plan B, that other job or career youve been putting off looking into? Instead, I literally mean, consider the alternative. Instead, I literally mean, consider the alternative.

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

Take over responsibility and leadership. Take over responsibility and leadership. Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, free-wheeling, and provocative. To all HR people: be proud about the responsibility you have — or should have.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, free-wheeling, and provocative. He recently edited Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy. We ask that you adhere to the following guidelines.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. Thats what Chinas Hi-Tech Fair is doing. Its another thing to see the green focus up close.

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