Human Resources
Human Resources
Workplace learning can help businesses achieve greater success. Unfortunately, its value is often underrated and easily underestimated. It is up to the professional spearheading workplace learning initiatives within...
Studies indicate that employee turnover costs anywhere from 12 to 40 percent of a company’s pretax income, making turnover a critical issue for executives in all industries. Turnover is especially important in poor...
Having pondered why some people with very high IQ scores fail miserably in their personal lives, Harvard professor Howard Gardner, concluded that the concept of “intelligence,” as a singular measure of competence,...
A business succeeds when its employees succeed, so attracting, hiring and retaining the best employees should be among an organization’s top priorities. Yet most companies fail to follow a systematic approach to hiring...
Global business is steadily moving toward a more knowledge-based economy, with human capital being its greatest asset. However, while leaders tout people as a key asset, their resource prioritization rarely reflects...
Although human capital is potentially the most powerful source of competitive advantage, in today’s global business environment, it is becoming increasingly difficult to design organizations that can turn talent into...
We frequently attribute great accomplishments to great talent. However, if success depends on talent alone, then why do we all know talented people who are not successful? In Talent Is Never Enough,...
In the years following September 11, 2001, communities around the world have scrambled to address the threat of terrorism and protect themselves from its occurrence. Public healthcare in the United States is slowly...
Organizational health represents a company’s greatest source of advantage. It forms the context for every important function, ranging from strategy to finance, marketing, technology, and more. Cultivating...
Throughout human history, most countries have had more young people than old people. This is no longer true in the United States and is even less true in most western European countries and Japan. Between 2010 and 2040...
