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Why Do Employees Stay? A Clear Career Path and Good Pay, for Starters
Employee retention ResearchPlus three reasons they quit. -
What Will It Take to Make Finance More Gender-Balanced?
Leadership & Managing People ResearchEven in countries that prioritize gender equality, the industry is still dominated by men. -
Prevent Your Star Performers from Losing Passion for Their Work
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticlePartner with them on both personal and professional goals. -
How to Keep Your Star Performers in Trying Times
Employee retention Best PracticeWhen the economy is slow and unemployment rates are high, it’s easy to think your employees will happily stay put in their current jobs. But that’s a dangerous assumption. Research shows that voluntary turnover rates increase as consumer confidence builds. This means, as a manager, you need to figure out ways to retain your top […] -
Equality in the U.S. Starts with Better Jobs
Global Business Digital ArticleSix steps business leaders can take right now. -
IDEO's Employee Engagement Formula
Organizational Development Digital ArticleFour elements that make workers happier. -
Do Employees Like What You Have to Offer?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleMatt Jastram raised an important question in a post several months ago that I've been looking forward to discussing further: "I wonder how to integrate... -
What It Means to Work Here
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhat distinguishes a company that has deeply engaged and committed employees from another one that doesn't? It's not a certain compensation scheme or... -
How to Equitably Assign High-Profile Work
Organizational Development Digital ArticleWorking with researchers, four companies used a data-driven approach to balance who was doing the office housework and who was getting promotion-making... -
5 Ways Leaders Can Support Adoptive Parents
Compensation and benefits Digital ArticleHow employers do — or don’t — step up can have a major impact on employees and their families. -
Retention Through Redemption
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleCorporate America and the U.S. Navy share one big problem: employee retention. Today's knowledge workers hop from start-up to start-up. And 40% of the... -
Flex Time: A Recession Triple Win
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTough times are the right time to formalize flexible work schedules. Remote work options, staggered hours, reduced schedules and mini-sabbaticals are... -
Why Flexible Work Is Essential to Your DEI Strategy
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleData shows that 60% of Black employees who aren’t happy with the flexibility at their current job will look for a new one in the coming year. -
Onboarding Can Make or Break a New Hire’s Experience
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Human Due Diligence
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMost companies do a thorough job of financial due diligence when they acquire other companies. But all too often, deal makers simply ignore or underestimate... -
Are Bad Managers Holding Back Your Best Talent?
Employee performance management Digital ArticleIt’s too easy to manipulate performance reviews. -
Retaining Your Data Scientists
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAfter all, they have lots of other options. -
3 New U.S. Employment Regulations That Companies Should Prepare for Now
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA spate of laws and rules in three areas - noncompete clauses, pay transparency, and human capital disclosures - will have far-reaching implications on... -
Think Task, Not Time
Employee retention Digital ArticleNot long ago, I spoke with the CFO of a major New York-based corporation. Clearly frustrated, he explained that everyone in his department worked 60 hours a week or more – they always had and, as far as he was concerned, they always would. But they were having no luck finding young employees willing to […] -
Designing a Corporate Alumni Program? Start Here.
Human resource management Digital ArticleHow to keep your former employees in your company’s orbit.
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Leading Change in Talent at L'Oreal
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Jean-Claude Le Grand just stepped into a new role as Executive Vice-President for Human Resources at the global cosmetics company, L'Oréal. He is now... -
Candor at Clever
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Clever, a high-growth EdTech company based in San Francisco, had grown quickly in market share (Exhibit 1-2) and headcount (Exhibit 3). As with many high-growth... -
Shinsei Bank: Developing an Integrated Firm
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Tom Pedersen, newly appointed chief learning officer (CLO) of Shinsei Bank in Japan, pondered how he could facilitate development of an integrated culture... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Talent (with bonus article "Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy" by Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill, and Robert J. Thomas)
24.95View Details Invest in your most valuable resource: your people. Top talent is hard to come by. And seeing your stars walk out the door is painful--and expensive.... -
Chung and Dasgupta: Supplemental Information on Jordan Ramirez and Casey Clark
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance... -
DaVita Responds to COVID
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Early in August 2021, DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez was assessing the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on his firm, which provided life-sustaining... -
Arck Systems (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The Arck Systems series of cases describes the dilemmas faced by a senior sales manager in determining a sales compensation plan at an enterprise software... -
The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone's Work
32.00View Details From MIT professor and pre-eminent voice on Good Jobs comes a leadership guide for choosing excellence and providing good jobs that offer a living wage,... -
The University of the East Coast: Crisis Management
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In February 2018, the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the East Coast in eastern Canada was faced with the challenge of managing... -
Morgan Wallen: Tough Decisions at the William Morris Endeavor Agency (C)
Management Case Study5.00View Details Jay Williams, cohead of the Nashville office of the William Morris Endeavor (WME), must decide how to respond to an incident involving Morgan Wallen,... -
The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal government agency responsible for evaluating and granting patent and trademark applications.... -
Kvantum Inc.: Social Media Dilemma and Talent Retention
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The chief executive officer of Kvantum Inc. received a distressing email from the human resources manager at Data Research Services. The two companies... -
Barbara Norris: Leading Change in the General Surgery Unit
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Barbara Norris struggles to address the many problems facing her as a recently promoted nurse manager in the General Surgery Unit (GSU) at Eastern Massachusetts... -
Marshall & Gordon: Designing an Effective Compensation System (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details CEO Kelly Browne wrestles with the design of a new compensation system to promote the collaboration and cross-selling necessary for supporting her firm's... -
Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work
32.00View Details If you're thinking of cutting your midlevel managers in the new world of work, think again. "Middle manager." The term evokes a bygone industrial era... -
Paradise Bakery & Cafe: The Challenges of Success
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Paradise Bakery and Café: The Challenges of Success traces the journey of entrepreneur Daniel Patterson from the founding of his bakery in Southern California,... -
Millennium Media, Inc. and John Voorenberg
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Millenium Media's CEO reviews the company diversity report and considers the challenges of maintaining a diverse workforce in light of the news that three... -
AltSchool: School Reimagined
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Max Ventilla and his team launches in 2013 AltSchool, a new network of tech-savvy independent K-8 "micro-schools." AltSchool is born out of Ventilla's... -
Shanghai Interior Automotive Door System: Running a Manufacturing Operation in China
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Shanghai Inteva Automotive Door System Co. Ltd (formerly Shanghai Delphi) was a leading player in China's automotive component industry with a 30%market... -
Whole Foods Market, Inc.
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Can a short-sleeved, sandal-wearing, college dropout create a company manifesting love, joy, and happiness? Chainsaw John Mackey did. This CEO took a...
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Why Do Employees Stay? A Clear Career Path and Good Pay, for Starters
Employee retention ResearchPlus three reasons they quit. -
What Will It Take to Make Finance More Gender-Balanced?
Leadership & Managing People ResearchEven in countries that prioritize gender equality, the industry is still dominated by men. -
Prevent Your Star Performers from Losing Passion for Their Work
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticlePartner with them on both personal and professional goals. -
How to Keep Your Star Performers in Trying Times
Employee retention Best PracticeWhen the economy is slow and unemployment rates are high, it’s easy to think your employees will happily stay put in their current jobs. But that’s a dangerous assumption. Research shows that voluntary turnover rates increase as consumer confidence builds. This means, as a manager, you need to figure out ways to retain your top […] -
Equality in the U.S. Starts with Better Jobs
Global Business Digital ArticleSix steps business leaders can take right now. -
IDEO's Employee Engagement Formula
Organizational Development Digital ArticleFour elements that make workers happier. -
Do Employees Like What You Have to Offer?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleMatt Jastram raised an important question in a post several months ago that I've been looking forward to discussing further: "I wonder how to integrate... -
Leading Change in Talent at L'Oreal
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Jean-Claude Le Grand just stepped into a new role as Executive Vice-President for Human Resources at the global cosmetics company, L'Oréal. He is now... -
What It Means to Work Here
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhat distinguishes a company that has deeply engaged and committed employees from another one that doesn't? It's not a certain compensation scheme or... -
How to Equitably Assign High-Profile Work
Organizational Development Digital ArticleWorking with researchers, four companies used a data-driven approach to balance who was doing the office housework and who was getting promotion-making...