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Fit to Role: Aligning Skills and Job Requirements for Optimal Performance

Effective Managers

Employees are less likely to leave a position where they feel competent and valued, leading to lower recruitment and training costs. Ongoing Training and Development : Implement continuous training and development programs to help employees enhance their skills and adapt to evolving job requirements.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

It suggests that Kalanick initially saw the HR function as a means of recruiting staff to support fast growth. All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development.

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When New Hires Get Paid More, Top Performers Resign First

Harvard Business

As such, employers should be aware of the impact hiring higher-paid external talent can have on their teams, conduct regular pay equity analyses to ensure that any disparities are fully explainable, and develop the agility necessary to adjust wages as soon as any inequities are identified.

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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Here’s Why Succession Planning Matters

Brimstone Consulting

Identify and develop talent Succession planning enables organizations to identify and develop talented employees who have the potential to take on leadership roles in the future. Reduce recruitment costs By developing internal talent, organizations can reduce the need to recruit external candidates for leadership positions.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team. Help Employees Embrace Agility. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations.

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