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Why Employee Recognition Matters in Today’s Workplace

Rick Conlow

Culturally engrained employee recognition and appreciation matters in today’s workplace. Improved Employee Retention: The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that organizations with effective recognition programs experience 31% lower voluntary turnover than those without such programs.

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Organizational Development for Small Business: What You Need to Know

Asamby Consulting

It involves developing and implementing strategies to improve the overall performance of the organization, including its people, processes, and systems. OD is a continuous process that aims to align the organization's goals and objectives with its culture and values. Small businesses are the backbone of the economy.

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Synergy Unleashed: The Power of Great Teamwork

Rick Conlow

Negative organizational culture: The overall culture within an organization can impact teamwork. If the organizational culture promotes competition, silos, or a lack of collaboration, it can trickle down to the team level and hinder cooperation.

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Improving the Patient Experience: People, Process, Place Model

Tom Spencer

Hospitals, health systems, and some private practice groups are working actively and diligently to improve patient satisfaction scores. Through this survey patients answer approximately 32 questions regarding their inpatient stay. Process: Each Step Matters. In 2015, hospitals either lost or gained 1.5% ASHE monograph.

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CC’ing the Boss on Email Makes Employees Feel Less Trusted

Harvard Business

My collaborators and I conducted a series of six studies (a combination of experiments and surveys) to see how cc’ing influences organizational trust. He found that increased transparency led workers to conceal information, even when that information was beneficial, such as process improvements they’d discovered.

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Can Employees Really Speak Up Without Retribution?

Harvard Business

Thus not surprisingly, lots of leaders say they want to encourage their employees to speak freely, whether it’s by offering creative new ideas, identifying process improvements, or even calling out unethical behavior. Finally, be aware of cultural differences. Of course, cultural differences in building trust also exist.

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Pushing Employees to Go the Extra Mile Can Be Counterproductive

Harvard Business

These self-starters need no external cues to help a co-worker learn a new skill; offer suggestions for process improvement; recruit a new employee; or volunteer for an assignment. Surveying 180 teams of employees and managers at U.S. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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