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Rocking the Workplace: How the Millennial Generation is Shaking Up the Way You Do Business

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Recruiters at Fortune 500 C.H. Robinson recently found themselves scratching their heads. They’d weathered stormy recruiting seas when sought-after Generation Xers showed up demanding everything from work/life balance to “bring your pet to work day” to casual dress. How hard could it be to adapt to a new generation of recruits – the Millennials? After […]

Management Observation Program Best Practice 8 – Cross Organizational Trending

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Management observation programs generate a wealth of individual and workgroup performance data. All too often, workgroup managers view their employees job functions as being singularly unique and so don’t consider pooling their observation results with peers. Doing so, however, creates the possibility of identifying broader organizational trends that may be culturally driven and more economical to resolve with a single integrated initiative.

StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Believe None of What You Hear

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Ever known a politician to renege on a campaign promise, say something misleading or simply just wrong? So many politicians lie (we don’t mince words here… if our children told such stories we’d punish them for lying) that we accept it as a part of the political game. And members of both parties are guilty […]

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Decision-Making Best Practice 7 – Identify the Decision-Maker

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Organizations confer varying degrees of decision-making authority to their executives, managers, and employees typically based on their positions within the organization. In many circumstances, this results in more than one individual possessing the authority to render a decision for the particular question at hand. Because there should be only one decision-making authority, it becomes necessary to identify who among the potential decision-makers is the individual on whose authority the selected course of action will be taken.