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Let’s Make a Deal: Building a Strong Company Culture is Everyone’s Business

HR Digest

Board of Directors: Guide the development of the desired culture, aligning it with business goals and stakeholder needs. Human Resources Department: Design employee experiences that reinforce the desired culture and develop culture-building programs.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. He helps companies build strong sustained revenue growth through by developing energizing office cultures. Jason Richmond. 6 Culture Myths.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

Premium pricing for preferred goods/services. This is not something that can be conducted alone by internal human resources departments. The challenge is to discover what mix of price and quality the customer wants and to deliver it. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Customer retention.

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Workers with Disabilities Solved This Company's Talent Crisis

Harvard Business Review

When Gitanjali Gems set up its diamond-cutting, polishing and jewellery making unit in its 176 acre campus outside Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh in southern India, it faced a major human resources challenge. It pioneered the concept of branded diamonds in India, and has multiple brands for different markets and price segments.

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Cutting Costs Without Cutting People

Harvard Business Review

One of the biggest mistakes that companies made during the recent crisis was the mass laying off of people to cut costs. Subsequent stock price performance proved its unpopularity with investors while numerous studies over the last decade demonstrated the precedent for its long-term, damaging effects on company performance.

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How American Business Can Navigate the Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

For instance, according to our labor supply and demand data, there is only one active job seeker for every three open positions in multiple fields, including nurse practitioners and cloud developers. When developing a recruitment strategy, companies can more fluidly project which positions will be the most difficult to fill.

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Moneyball and the Talent Mismatch Facing Business

Harvard Business Review

In the three years since I read Moneyball, the talent crisis has only deepened. Workers may be available, in other words, and may have skills, but they're not the ones employers need today or accessible at a price managers' budgets allow them to pay. Think of it as Billy Beane's strategy applied to developing a winning business team.