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Why Aren’t Black Employees Getting More White-Collar Jobs?

Harvard Business

Forty years ago, two companies were known for aggressively recruiting minorities on college campuses: IBM and Xerox , both considered hot tech companies of that era. It offered a competitive salary and extensive training, and it could point to several minority leaders in management. representation in non-management professionals.

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Design Your Employee Experience as Thoughtfully as You Design Your Customer Experience

Harvard Business

In its 2016 Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, the firm showed that companies that excel at customer experience have one-and-a-half times as many engaged employees as customer experience laggards do. For example, here are the 10 stages a client of mine identified in their employee journey: sourcing and recruiting. advancement.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board.

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Why an Innovation Culture Matters

Organizational Talent Consulting

recruiting, rewarding, recognizing, and developing innovation champions. Cultures that produce innovation create innovation teams, address the "lack of time" barrier, hold employees accountable, provide persuasive prompts for innovation, and recruit, reward, recognize, and develop innovation champions. Epstein, M., Shelton, R.

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