HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

If your initial reaction is to feel overwhelmed by these updates, then consider the role of an average employee who is more likely to be replaced more permanently through job cuts and organizational restructuring efforts. You might be able to help both the employees and yourself find some balance by fully understanding the role of HR.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

From demographics to technology, the economy is changing dramatically and so is the way we work. They switch jobs frequently and their careers are more fluid and less linear than prior generations. In today’s economy, work is increasingly dependent on mobility—across locations, projects, career progression, family needs and more.

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Policies Trends Career Real Estate 104

Coaching Tip

APRIL 23, 2014

Clearly, regulatory restructuring on a global scale is underway. This is not a trivial task in and of itself, but add to that the "need for speed," driven by the continued advancement of technological capabilities, and this generation of business executives just may be facing the greatest management challenge of the postindustrial era.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As layoffs hit tech, professional recruiters are forced to rethink their careers. Recruiting: A Bellwether Career? Companies are now restructuring with measures such as layoffs and hiring freezes as they enter the last phase of the boom-bust cycle. Layoffs that began in tech are now spilling to retail and beyond.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2020

Maybe you are spending too much time answering emails in which case a simple day restructure will help you move more efficiently. Doing this not only improves your productivity but it also benefits your employees by giving them a sense of achievement and direction in their careers. Thank goodness for technology and apps.

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Products Productivity Delegation Efficiency 66

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Optimists favor ‘ doing more with more ,’ placing bets that higher sales and profits will pay for the added investments in headcount or technologies; we’ve all been there at one time or another. The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better.

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Human Resources Competitive Advantage Restructuring Marketing Strategy 183

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

While having the right education is an essential asset in today’s cutthroat job market, it can become difficult to obtain a position without experience using various applications and technologies that enhance and amplify one’s resume. Put these four technologies in your tech toolbox. Docs.Zone PDF Converter: docs.zone.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. The decline in opportunities for promotion. .

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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

Change can involve the adoption of new technologies, reengineering, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, culture blending, or any of a number of other forms. Some won’t mind taking a trip, just not in the direction you’re headed. Others will resist getting in the car at all. For most people, change is a big deal.

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Hotels Stress Resistance Restructuring 128

Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009. Now DC workers are seeing a change in leadership across different agencies which may mean a new boss along with new systems and priorities.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

a lot of companies focus on restructuring their organization structure (hierarchy). I sometimes wonder about an organization with a loose and nimble structure with a solid work-flow and technologies that enable such an efficient work-flow. Tuning hierarchy and structure of the organization for better outcomes is just one part.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

We all know the common and famous careers out there. Did you know there are many great career paths that are ‘hidden’ from the normal news mainstream? Careers we probably know exist if we really thought about it, but we tend to forget them when we look at the entire career picture. New technology all the time.

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Career Real Estate Engineering Education 191

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

For me businesses are as much or more about the people than they are about the products and markets …so those tough restructuring calls (or sometimes the shut it down calls) are the hardest things ever. Sometimes they aren’t happy calls – and that’s when it gets really hard.

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HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

You want to inform the employee that they are being laid off due to reasons such as company restructuring or budget cuts. This could include severance packages, job search assistance, or career counseling services. Layoff due to restructuring. The tone of the layoff letter should be respectful and professional.

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Letter Politics Restructuring Sample 98

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

At the same time, employees are just as stressed about the growing skills gap, Accenture research shows, and most of them are unclear about which skills they need to advance their careers. As a result, they tend to focus narrowly on technology skills, the Accenture survey reports. There's a lot at stake here.

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Skills Survey Human Resources Document 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. John Fedele/Getty Images. These advances all point toward the total automation of our lives, including the way we work and do business.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The onslaught of mounting stressors include global challenges, such as climate change, terrorism, and political turmoil – as well as personal and professional challenges, such as illnesses, job changes, and organizational restructuring. For many of us, the initial response to stress is to look for external fixes.

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Stress Root Cause Analysis Learning-by-Doing Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The ability to immerse oneself in terabytes of data, identify (individually or collaboratively) what''s most important and restructure it in an accessible, meaningful and usable form for a variety of audiences will increasingly be an essential skill. Appreciating the essence of technology and the technology of essence is key.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

But it's important to know the difference between a one-time error in judgment and a decision to pursue a critically flawed strategy — in fact, your future career may depend on knowing the difference. The solution is to show some humility and to consider restructuring things so that your actions have some checks and balances.

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Strategy Metrics Restructuring Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The Labor Market Maker would be responsible for identifying the skills employers need — now and in the future — and signaling that information to individuals, so they can plan their careers, and schools, so they can plan their curricula.

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Marketing Restructuring McKinsey Education 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

The stakes here may not be as high — the corporate fast lane normally doesn’t require risking life and limb – but the damage can be costly nonetheless, both for companies and for individual careers. Trying to banish distinctions among colleagues may have the unintended consequence of increasing competition.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

The answer turns out to be far more nuanced than mere wealth accumulation and career advancement. He offered an example: “I recently recruited a VP Sales and Marketing from a well-known consumer technology company to be the president and COO of a small but fast-growing smart-grid consumer technology-products company.

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Reputation Consultative P&L Execution 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Teach employees to own their career development. With five generations actively in the workforce, organizations must restructure the way employees learn and the tools and activities they use to correctly match the different styles, preferences, and expectations of employees. Yet they can’t do it alone, nor do you want them to.

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Development Mentor Learning-by-Doing Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

Most refer to organizational changes such as restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, downsizing or moving locations, all of which may result in abrupt shifts in reporting lines, job responsibilities, or the physical environment. Many articles have been written about why employees resist change and how to overcome that fear and defensiveness.

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Company Resistance CEO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Frequent restructurings of the analytics function. This is about more than technology. High-achieving executives have been shaped by the pivotal experiences of their careers, yet analytics requires executives to think beyond these mental models. Chief Analytics Officers (CAOs) were frequently replaced.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Dave didn’t advocate any particular design model, just one the leader knows how to employ and one flexible enough to be applied to the range of organizational situations a leader faces in the course of a career. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

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Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

” Education, then, is not usually an incremental step to a better way to make a living life or a waystation to another career. To this end, teachers’ work has subsequently been the subject of major restructuring over the past three decades. It normally aspires to social, not selfish, purpose.

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Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

It dents your self-esteem; it’s tough on your bank account; and if you’re not smart about your next steps, it can derail your career. “The old adage that it’s not about you is nonsense,” says John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and the author of How to Get a Job You Love. Losing your job is hard.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. When we began our research, we expected to hear a lot about organizational design. The most important capabilities systems do not fall neatly into groupings designed many decades ago.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. ” He would later call this the most important insight of his career. But Stayer wasn’t happy. Everything, he had resolved, had to change.

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Management Long-term System Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

And what happens as advances in technology constantly change how customers and employees expect to interact with your company? Perhaps not too surprisingly, technology plays a central role (after all, we’re a technology company). How technology is changing the way we work. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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