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Need Budget Approval for Your HR Initiative? These CFOs Have Tips for Getting the Green Light 

15Five

You present your brilliant initiative to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to get their monetary blessing… It’s a no. This is nothing like 2008 [or other previous recessions], but it is a slowdown, so that means pencils are sharper,” he said. You see a need or problem in the business and have a great plan for solving it.

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Is the HR Accountable for Mass Layoffs?

Keka HR Blog

What metrics should we use to determine whether our actions are effective? Layoffs during the great recession of 2008 : A study titled “Dumb and Dumber” suggested that layoffs impacted profitability especially for industries having low levels of physical capital but greater investment in workers. and General Motors Co.,

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8 HR Models Every HR Practitioner Should Know in 2023

Analytics in HR

These activities are often measured using HR metrics. These are so-called efficiency metrics. For example, we would rather spend a few days longer on hiring a new employee ( time to hire , an efficiency metric) if this person will be a better fit in the company ( quality of hire , an outcome metric).

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Is the HR Accountable for the Mass Layoffs?

Keka HR Blog

What metrics should we use to determine whether our actions are effective? Layoffs during the great recession of 2008 : A study titled “Dumb and Dumber” suggested that layoffs impacted profitability especially for industries having low levels of physical capital but greater investment in workers. and General Motors Co.,

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Using Internal and External Data for Risk Insights and Predictions

360 factors

Key performance indicators, as the name suggests, directly track performance metrics while risk indicators directly track risk metrics. The same metric is a KRI for the risk department, because it tells them that there may be risks present within different departments which are not being properly mitigated.

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The Unknown Cost of Conflict in the Workplace

Pollack Peacebuilding

While the study is from 2008 and costs may have changed since, the results are staggering. Conflict tends to cloud the room and add to stress that may already be present. the company that publishes the Myers-Briggs Assessment and the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, ran a study related to the cost of workplace conflict.

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ESG: responsible leadership in practice

qpeople

In the last few years, CSR has been overtaken by its more socially conscious sibling, ESG (environment, social, governance), as businesses attempt to respond to diminishing levels of public trust following the global financial crash of 2008. At qpeople we have pledged our commitment to Do Nation.

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