Business in Action, 7th Ed.
Chapter 11: Human Resources Management
"Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They're crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long.
"Amazon has knocked Google off the top spot as the best place to work in the world, according to LinkedIn.
"We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards?
According to Julia Stiglitz (photo, left), "Members of this age group, who typically change jobs at least four times in their first decade out of college, need and want work-based training and development.
"Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think.
"The workforce is changing and learning leaders are on the front line.
"Ever wondered why it's called "7UP"?
"What happens after companies jettison traditional year-end evaluations?
"Dave Isay [photo, left] opened the first StoryCorps booth in New York’s Grand Central Terminal in 2003 with the intention of creating a quiet place where a person could honor someone who mattered to them by listening to their story.
"In our louder and louder world, says sound expert Julian Treasure, "We are losing our listening.
"One could argue that slang words like ‘hangry,’ ‘defriend’ and ‘adorkable’ fill crucial meaning gaps in the English language, even if they don't appear in the dictionary.
"In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.
"Hear what Americans have to say about their jobs.
"In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize.
"As a research scientist at Google, Margaret Mitchell helps develop computers that can communicate about what they see and understand.
"Good managers, in a lot of ways, are like coaches.
"Amazon Go is being called the grocery store of the future, where lines and cashiers don't exist.
"In Strategic Communication class, 4 MBA students share information and techniques on gender related communication barriers.
"This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences.
"Knowing how you work, and how to optimize your work, can be instrumental in your success.
Watch the YouTube video by Diane DiResta.
"HR tech trends and disruptions in 2018 will converge around productivity, design and intelligence in HR tech applications, according to analyst Josh Bersin.
"We've heard a lot of rhetoric lately suggesting that countries like the US are losing valuable manufacturing jobs to lower-cost markets like China, Mexico and Vietnam -- and that protectionism is the best way forward.
"What do you want out of your career?