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Six Resolutions for a Winning Corporate Culture

Chart Your Course

Employees are happier when they have control over their work and are not micromanaged. For instance, Mary is the expert for customer service problems, or Jose is the guy for technology issues. Establish trust. Instead of one-on-one mentoring, appoint experts in the office where people can ask for help depending on the issue.

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How To Win With People Analytics

HR Digest

What sorts of “insight” are expected from technologies? People analytics, also known as “talent analytics,” “human analytics,” and “human resource analytics,” is defined as the use of individualized data about people to help organizations make well-informed decisions about talent acquisition.

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How to Keep Your Business Sustainable

Strategy Driven

It might also be a good idea to do your research and invest in the latest technology, or you will be left behind by your competitors. If you are trying to control or even micromanage every process in your organization, you are going to get overwhelmed very soon. Increase Your Research and Development Budget. Keep an Eye on the Trends.

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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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The Family Dynamics We Grew Up with Shape How We Work

Harvard Business Review

It influences whether they have close or distant relationships with the people who report to them, communicate directly or indirectly, micromanage or empower, encourage debates or shut them down. Sarah, a highly driven CEO of a technology company, was a heavy-handed micro-manager. His company successfully weathered the downturn.