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How a Focus on Passion in the Workplace Can Push Employees Toward Burnout

Great Place to Work

Through 116 interviews with 55 employees at two U.S.-based based architecture firms between 2006 and 2020, Vough and her co-author Angela Ianniello discovered that managers often rely on instinct rather than science to identify passion in an employee. “I The solution? Reward performance — not vibes.

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Could the Gender Wage Gap Increase with the Development of Technology?

Zenefits

The year 2018 saw a widening of the gender wage gap for the first time since 2006 , the first year in which WEF collected data. Economists believe that technology might be to blame. Automation and technological advances are disrupting industries in a big way. But the technological disruption is also a drain on the job market.

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Why Emotional Intelligence is So Critical in the Workplace

Criteria Corp

Over the last few decades, new technology has changed the way we work, the way we interact with each other, and the very jobs we hold. At L’Oreal, salespeople who were selected on the basis of emotional competencies outsold people recruited in the traditional way. June 2006, Emotional intelligence, personality and task-induced stress.

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Todd Archbold of PrairieCare: “Technology needs to better enable quality care delivery”

Thrive Global

Technology needs to better enable quality care delivery. Our health systems utilize expensive technologies such as MRIs and specialized procedures more often than our peers in other countries, and we are incredibly reliant on expensive electronic health information and practice management systems.

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9 Books Every Recruiter Needs to Read at Least Once

Linkedin Talent Blog

Grant argues that in fast-changing times, businesses need people to think differently if they’re going to compete, as nonconformity is the secret to adaptability and agility. It’s been 14 years since David Allen’s famed book published, yet his breakthrough methods keeps changing lives—even in modern technological times.

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Two Pressing Priorities for HR Executives: Social and Analytics

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

How is it, then, that in a recent Argyle survey of top HR executives, 62 percent say they are not using social and collaboration software at work? The same survey found that while 91 percent use technology to track applicants and recruiting, only 36 percent have an established technology system in place for HR analytics.

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Jim Donovan: “Everything is a teaching moment”

Thrive Global

I believe enhancing our access to technology will provide students in rural and urban areas fundamental tools and teachers to have more opportunities and is crucial in preparing the next generation, especially as we learned in the past year there may be times when digital learning is needed. Donovan earned his B.S.