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Build a Team of Personalities: One Consultant’s Approach to Improving Employee Engagement

Everwise

In the spring of 2013, Nathan Smith encountered a staffing crisis that would change his life: Three of his five-person nonprofit team left in a matter of months. Not only did the shakeup push him into a more senior role, it also forced him to build an effective strategy for hiring, team building, and getting to work quickly.

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People Analytics and HR-Tech Reading List

Littal Shemer

Vance, Peggy Parskey (2020) “The book breaks new ground with a framework to simplify the discussion of measurement, analytics and reporting as it relates to L&D and talent development practitioners. ” Retooling HR: Using Proven Business Tools to Make Better Decisions About Talent John W.

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Layoffs (Usually) Don’t Work and Why They Harm More Than Help

Workplace Psychology

Coping with job loss or the danger of losing one’s job is a major source of stress (Riggio, 2013). Landy & Conte (2013) explained that because a worker may continue to have strong affective, continuance, or normative commitments to the organization, a job loss can be devastating. Leadership + Talent Development Advisor.

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Book Review: Applied Psychology in Talent Management (8th ed.) by Wayne Cascio and Herman Aguinis

Workplace Psychology

In comparison, when I looked in the Aamodt (2013) I/O psychology textbook, only half a page was devoted to differential validity and the author explained the concept in one sentence! In Applied Psychology in Talent Management (8th ed.), then one could claim that adverse impact had been demonstrated” (Landy & Conte, 2013, p.