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11 Real-Life Human Resources Examples

AIHR

From finding and hiring new talent, providing training and development opportunities, to ensuring compliance with labor laws and managing compensation and benefits. of restaurants have achieved passing scores in Operations Service Audits. The platform has a global reach to support HR operations in 50+ countries. The result?

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Morning Advantage: Lessons from the Worst-Performing Companies in America

Harvard Business Review

Nor, Deepwater Horizon notwithstanding, accidents or other operational problems like suppy chain or customer service disruptions. Not fraud, either, or ethics violations, the odd rogue trader losing billions in a single day, or other compliance problems. The 2012 Gadget Guide (Scientific American). BONUS BITS: Totally Awesome.

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How Much Can Your Employees Get Away With?

Harvard Business Review

I could be as clear as day about my intentions, what I wanted from the kids, my reasons, and the consequences for non-compliance, and yet the kids did whatever they wanted. As leaders, we try to speak to the reasoning system to ask for compliance. But after a while, they started to fall in line. What was happening?

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Delivering Higher Value Care Means Spending More Time with Patients

Harvard Business Review

To understand these issues better, we formed a project team to study patients that started on dialysis in 2011 and 2012. A few differences did exist between the two sets of patients, likely reflecting the better compliance of patients that started dialysis optimally. Costs Operations management Business processes Healthcare'

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Why Individuals No Longer Rule on Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. Network behavior isn’t something you drive through compliance; you enable it through opportunity. We’ve also seen an increase in importance of network performance at the manager level.

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Will Big Data Kill All But the Biggest Retailers?

Harvard Business Review

A McKinsey study released in May 2011 stated that, by using Big Data to the fullest, retailers stood to increase their operating margins by up to 60% — this, in an industry where net profit margins are often less than 2%. Independent retailers are savvy operators and are eager to join the fray if given the opportunity.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. Zhou reportedly felt that the original Yahoos were overpaid and lazy, whereas the Yahoo team felt bullied and believed Zhou wasn’t focused on the Yahoo operations. We were ready to give Ma the keys to Yahoo’s operations in China.