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Recruitment Basics: Your 101 Guide in 2023

AIHR

The recruitment and selection process explained Recruitment tools Recruitment metrics Recruitment skills to develop Tips for developing a recruitment plan Key terms to know in recruitment What is recruitment and how does it differ from talent acquisition? Diversity recruitment: The value of a diverse workforce cannot be underestimated.

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4 Ways To Use People Analytics To Ensure A Great Place To Work

Vantage Circle

Which Metrics Should You Track? While there are hundreds of workforce, human capital, people, and HR metrics you can track, what it boils down to is being able to find answers to two key questions: Are we doing well? Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace (DE&I) is no longer just a buzzword. Increase DE&I.

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What High-Quality Revenue Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

Over time, a company's value becomes a function of both growth and cash flow. High-quality revenue has three main characteristics: predictability, profitability and diversity. So in addition to looking at year-over-year growth, you should be looking to these three metrics to drive long-term value: 1. growth) of revenue.

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Reclaiming the Idea of Shareholder Value

Harvard Business Review

Properly understood, maximizing shareholder value means allocating resources so as to maximize long-term cash flow. Companies that choose to balance the interests of stakeholders as their governing objective must explain how they intend to manage the diverse and often conflicting interests of their stakeholders.

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3D Printing Will Revive Conglomerates

Harvard Business Review

Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see. Headquarters provides accountability and perhaps better metrics than the divisional managers might otherwise have.

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How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire

Harvard Business Review

The board chose earnings per share (among other financial metrics) to measure and reward executives for long-term performance. The diversion of cash from investment slowed long-term strategic success. Another company, in the agricultural technology sector, chose free cash flow as the primary long-term incentive measure.

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Stop Using The Wrong Inventory Metrics

Chief Executive

Yesterday’s core inventory metrics — inventory turnover (cost of goods ÷ average inventory) and inventory GMROI (gross margin ÷ inventory cost) — fail to provide the essential information that managers need to avoid the twin problems of missing critical potential profits while having to write off large tranches of costly inventory.

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