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Steve Boese: Coronavirus and the challenge to HR everywhere

HRExecutive

Well, that is obviously not what has transpired in the last month. If anything, the disruptions to life, work and people from the continuing coronavirus pandemic are much, much more profound than certainly I, and I imagine many of you as well, could have imagined. Be safe, be well and please take care of each other. While Sept.

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How Resume & Employment Verification Protects Employers

Cisive

The CEO of Bausch & Lomb from 2001-2008 faked an MBA from a business school he didn’t graduate from. The dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted in 2007 that she had claimed degrees she hadn’t earned and in fact had never graduated from college.

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How Can We Come Out of This Disorder and Make Ourselves More Anti-Fragile?

Don Phin

My first exposure was his 2007 book, Black Swan. I then read Fooled by Randomness (2001) and my favorite of the three, Anti-Fragile […]. One of my favorite authors and thinkers is Nassim Nicholas Taleb. According to Taleb, COVID-19 is an example of a white swan event, as it wasn’t in the realm of unrecognized exposures.

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The Value of a Story in the Business World: It’s Not Just a Tall Tale

Thrive Global

Jobs illustrated that himself during the release of the first iPhone in 2007. Then he showed a photo of the iPod, which came out in 2001 and “changed the music industry,” as he put it. His approach showed that stories glean their power not only from their content, but also their structure, as well as the storyteller’s skill.

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Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE)

Workplace Psychology

Two sociologists from University of Minnesota’s Flexible Work and Well-Being Center, Dr. Phyllis Moen and Dr. Erin Kelly ( Kelly is now at the MIT Sloan School of Management ), were the original researchers invited in 2006 to observe and study ROWE as it was being implemented at Best Buy (Flexible Work and Well-Being Center, 2015).

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Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE)

Workplace Psychology

Two sociologists from University of Minnesota’s Flexible Work and Well-Being Center, Dr. Phyllis Moen and Dr. Erin Kelly ( Kelly is now at the MIT Sloan School of Management ), were the original researchers invited in 2006 to observe and study ROWE as it was being implemented at Best Buy (Flexible Work and Well-Being Center, 2015).

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3 ways positive leadership impacts an organization

Talogy

His research shows a link between leadership and positivity, with an increase in job satisfaction, workplace well-being , employee engagement, and performance. Moreover, additional studies indicate that mental acuity is greater when focusing on positive events compared to negative events (Sharot, Riccardi, Raio & Phelps, 2007).