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Legal and Negotiating Strategies Every Manager Should Know

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:40:24 +0000

Today, in what I like to call the civilized world, disputes are resolved in courtrooms. Sure, that’s a step in the right direction. But surprisingly, the strategies and tactics of today’s business disputes are remarkably similar to those used by past leaders on the battlefield. What’s changed the most, on the other hand, is that today’s leaders are surprisingly unprepared to lead their “troops” into battle. It’s shocking, frankly, how naive and ill-equipped most executives and business leaders are, both before and after they enter the modern-day legal battlefield. Read more...

Should You Tell Them They'll Be Laid Off? : A HR Case Study

maddy — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:40:18 +0000

This article is a case study indicating that how a CEO tells why HR should work hand-in-hand with finance in a merger. If one look at the acquisition strategy of most companies, the earlier is to get in the process, the more it is skewed to finance and less to HR. At Thoratec, HR couldn't go out and spend a lot of money without working with finance, but finance, on the other hand, shouldn't make assumptions about cost of labor and cost of benefits without talking to HR about it. A good HR department is going to force the general manager to communicate increasingly and more. If the current economic downturn continues and layoffs persist, more and more CFOs might find HR officials checking their work when their companies are thinking about a merger. Read more...

Cheat Your Way to Success!

maddy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:40:23 +0000

When launching a new initiative, such as Lean, employee buy-in is critical. Many employees will not put much stock in a new strategy until they see that: 1) It works! 2) It makes their jobs easier, not harder! It is management’s responsibility to prove that a change in strategy will work. How can this be accomplished? Easy, Cheat! These simple techniques of cheating are found to be very effective in the Lean transformations. To know what are these cheating techniques, Read more

How Do I Convince My Boss?

maddy — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:40:36 +0000

Companies often make the mistake of thinking the best programmer will be the best manager of programmers. This is rarely the case, as programming and managing are different skills. The problem is, as you know, that it’s super obvious that the best programmer is the best. Your “soft” skills are less quantifiable. You do need to toot your own horn. Let’s figure out a way to do that. Read more....

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Online recruitment of cutting-edge users : study of Ericsson Labs developer portal

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:40:33 +0000

The recruitment of cutting-edge users is difficult since these users usually are not registered in recruitment databases. Cutting-edge users are advanced, early-adopters of technology and sometimes referred to as opinion leaders. Telecom research projects performed at Ericsson Research involve products and services 2-3 years ahead of the market; early-adopters and cutting edge users are therefore an important user group. The findings from the study show that recruitment is hard; it is especially difficult to recruit active and conversational respondents from a user database. Providing incentives and using personal communication were shown to be successful strategies to convince users to participate in a study. Read more...

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Labour Standards and Globalisation: A Case Study of Implementing Minimum Wages

maddy — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:40:18 +0000

Minimum wage policy has remained in contention with economists and policy makers aligned on both sides of the debate. Increasingly the state has been forced to formally retract these laws under the onslaught of the globalisation of capital. This has resulted in a precipitous drop of wages for workers, especially in the so-called ‘unorganised sector’. The present note is an attempt to capture the process and consequences of institutionalisation of payment of minimum wages in a public sector academic institution. Read more...

Workforce Scheduling: Managerial Strategies for Driving Down Costs While Escalating Customer Satisfaction

maddy — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:39:59 +0000

Majority In most industries, labor represents the greatest proportion of operational costs. By helping to optimize that labor, workforce scheduling can help companies reduce expenses. But for most companies, scheduling is still more burden than benefit. Discover scheduling techniques that best-in-class companies are using to achieve greater operational efficiencies, and increase satisfaction among employees and customers. Read more...

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Investing In Developing An Organization's Talent

maddy — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:40:36 +0000

Organizations need to maintain their pond, which requires restocking periodically and keeping in balance, eliminating the need to start over. In nowadays' knowledge economy, which has created an intensely competitive market for human capital, organizations must invest as much in developing their talent within their organization as they do in recruiting it. Read More...

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Corporate strategy and the role of HRM: critical cases in oil and chemicals

maddy — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:40:01 +0000

HR issues are fundamental to business is compelling at the level of unit labour costs, but whether they are fundamental to the strategy process has remained highly questionable. The paper suggests that a favourable HR environment has to be established before the various strategic choices can be analysed. Empirical research in two UK oil and chemical companies provides evidence that the effect of HR issues on corporate strategy is understated. Read more to know....

INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED CORE LABOUR STANDARDS IN INDIA

newuser — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:40:06 +0000

This paper on the respect of internationally recognised core labour standards in India is one of the series the ITUC is producing in accordance with the Ministerial Declaration adopted at the first Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) (Singapore, 9-13 December 1996) in which Ministers stated: "We renew our commitment to the observance of internationally recognised core labour standards." The fourth Ministerial Conference (Doha, 9-14 November 2001) reaffirmed this commitment. These standards were further upheld in the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work adopted by the 174 member countries of the ILO at the International Labour Conference in June 1998...click here to read ahead