Category Archives: HR
Legal and Negotiating Strategies Every Manager Should Know
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 [...]
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Should You Tell Them They'll Be Laid Off? : A HR Case Study
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, [...]
Cheat Your Way to Success!
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 [...]
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How Do I Convince My Boss?
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 [...]
Filed under Articles, Employee Relations, HR, Recruitment & Selection
Online recruitment of cutting-edge users : study of Ericsson Labs developer portal
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 [...]
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Labour Standards and Globalisation: A Case Study of Implementing Minimum Wages
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 [...]
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Workforce Scheduling: Managerial Strategies for Driving Down Costs While Escalating Customer Satisfaction
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 [...]
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Investing In Developing An Organization's Talent
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 [...]
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Corporate strategy and the role of HRM: critical cases in oil and chemicals
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 [...]
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INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED CORE LABOUR STANDARDS IN INDIA
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) [...]
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