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How To Win With People Analytics

HR Digest

A new IBM report shows that half of CHROs identified for the study recognize the possibilities for innovation in HR operations and the acquisition and development of talent.

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How to Manage People in Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

You could award employees who complete the courses with certificates that can be inserted into their human resource (HR) file. Show your employees you trust them – Show you employees you trust them in their jobs by not micromanaging them. Keep Communications Open and Productive. Make sure staff members are taking vacation days.

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What Circuit City Learned About Valuing Employees

Harvard Business Review

What excited Sam was McGregor's clear and compelling articulation of the personnel (today, we say "human resources") policies in which he instinctively believed. Taylor, the 19th century guru of time and motion studies, which were used by management to micromanage workers; to tell them not only what to do but also how to do it.

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Workplace Bullying: Little-Known Factors to Help You End Bullying At Workplace

HR Digest

It is a difficult type of workplace aggression because workplace bullies usually operate within the organizational regulations. Micromanage the worker and clinically scrutinizing the employee’s work to highlight incompetence and find reasons to abuse the worker. Make unreasonable demands or illogical requests.

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4 Steps to Sustaining Improvement in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Efficiencies gained in human resources and housekeeping can free frontline unit managers and clinical staff to spend more time at the patient’s bedside. Without such clearly defined standardized work for the day-to-day operations manager, two things happen. First, systems revert to previous behaviors and processes.

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If Employees Don’t Trust You, It’s Up to You to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

The Society of Human Resource Management found that 53% of companies that checked references uncovered falsities about the length of previous employment, and 51% discovered false claims about past salaries. To demonstrate positive assumptions, show that you reject micromanaging. Finally, check those references!