Business in Action, 9th Ed.
Chapter 11: Human Resources Management
"Before leaving work each day, employees at Ubiquity Retirement + Savings press a button in the lobby.
"The tech company’s new employee review system gets rid of the company’s historic approach to evaluating worker performance.
"Time was, layoffs were seen as an emergency strategy, the last resort in a downturn or crisis.
According to Bill Reichert, "Most entrepreneurs should just throw out their elevator pitches and start over.
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"Of all the reasons why applicants’ resumes get tossed in the circular file, “the O word”, for overqualified, has long been in the Top Ten.
"Lynn Steenberg owns Sports Physical Therapy of New York -- known as Sports PT.
"Nothing is more costly to an organization’s culture than a toxic employee.
"Editing and proofreading are often neglected, but they are the crucial final stages of the writing process.
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"McKinsey Global Institute director Jonathan Woetzel (photo, left) and MGI senior fellow Anu Madgavkar discuss the economic and ethical reasons why gender equality is a worthy goal.
"There are times Dan Price feels as if he stumbled into the middle of the street with a flag and found himself at the head of a parade.
Natalie Sportelli (photo, left) reports.
"New workplace technology is allowing white-collar jobs to be tracked, tweaked and managed using an increasingly wide range of tools to monitor workers’ efforts.
Bill Reichert, Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, reports.
"Most people have no idea how their paychecks compare to the market average.
"I don’t like performance reviews.
"Here are five truly idiotic HR policies that will keep your best employees racing for the exits the minute they get the chance — and keep you re-filling the same positions over and over until somebody pulls the needle out of your chief executive’s arm.
"The results couldn’t be more conclusive.
According to Jodi Glickman (photo, left) and Alicia Bassuk, "The decision to terminate an employee is never easy.