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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

To attract new talent, employers often offer new hires higher wages than existing employees. But today, a combination of regulatory changes and technological advances have dramatically increased pay transparency in many sectors, making employees increasingly aware of these pay disparities.

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What I Learned from Transforming the U.S. Military’s Approach to Talent

Harvard Business

When contending for talent in a competitive world, no organization — let alone the largest in the world, with the largest stakes — can afford to lose employees like 2nd Lieutenant Riley. military over the last 250 years can, at times, make recruitment and retention difficult. Attracting Talent.

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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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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. This can help to retain top talent and ensure that the organization has a strong leadership pipeline.

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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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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

To address some of these issues, my company decided to create a pilot apprenticeship program to create and grow a sustainable diverse talent pipeline separate from that of college graduates. They recruited a group of 30 individuals, ages 18-20, who expressed interest in the program. But we actually ended up with too many volunteers.

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