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How to Keep Working When You're Just Not Feeling It
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMotivating yourself is one of the main things that sets high achievers apart, and it's hard. How do you keep pushing onward when your heart isn't into... -
9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2023 and Beyond
Business management Digital ArticleAmid a looming economic downturn, employers can expect another tumultuous year. -
Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleBy aligning executives' financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard... -
How a “Pay-to-Quit” Strategy Can Reveal Your Most Motivated Employees
Employee incentives Digital ArticleEverybody wins with this program. -
How to Return to Work After Taking Parental Leave
Career planning Best PracticeMake your first day back a Wednesday. -
Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition
Organizational Development SpotlightA lot of leaders believe that the formula for attracting and keeping talent is simple: Just ask people what they want and give it to them. The problem... -
Research: The Flexibility Options Your On-Site Employees Want
Organizational Development Digital ArticleGallup surveyed more than 5,700 fully on-site workers in the U.S. to find out which flexibility options are available to them - and which would entice... -
When You Find Out a Coworker Makes More Money than You Do
Compensation and benefits Digital ArticleGet more information before you react. -
Ending the War Between Sales and Marketing
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleSales departments tend to believe that marketers are out of touch with what's really going on in the marketplace. Marketing people, in turn, believe the... -
How to Respond When Your Employee Asks for a Raise
Managing people Digital ArticleBuy time and ask questions. -
Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work
Employee incentives Magazine ArticleWhen reward systems fail, don’t blame the program—look at the premise behind it. -
Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleExecutives have developed tunnel vision in their pursuit of shareholder value, focusing on short-term performance at the expense of investing in long-term... -
Automation Doesn't Just Create or Destroy Jobs - It Transforms Them
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThree questions firms should ask themselves when deciding whether to automate. -
How to Do Hybrid Right
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSince the pandemic, companies have adopted the technologies of virtual work remarkably quickly--and employees are seeing the advantages of more flexibility... -
The High Cost of Neglecting Low-Wage Workers
Business management SpotlightSix mistakes that companies make—and how they can do better -
A Guide to Implementing the 4-Day Workweek
Organizational Development Big IdeaAs organizations continue to explore a variety of flexible work options, one promising avenue is the four-day workweek: The standard 40 hours per week... -
CEO Incentives—It’s Not How Much You Pay, But How
Executive compensation Magazine ArticleThe arrival of spring means yet another round in the national debate over executive compensation. Soon the business press will trumpet answers to the questions it asks every year: Who were the highest paid CEOs? How many executives made more than a million dollars? Who received the biggest raises? Political figures, union leaders, and consumer […] -
How to Pay Your Sales Force
Motivating people Magazine ArticleUsing the results of a survey of 380 companies in 34 industries, this author examines three basic types of compensation plans: salary, commission, and combination (salary plus commission). Most companies in the study favored a combination plan, but such plans have some disadvantages to offset their obvious attractiveness. The author sets out the possible reasons […] -
The Innovation Equation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleAs start-ups grow into larger, more bureaucratic companies, they're more likely to favor safe, incremental innovation over riskier, potentially breakthrough... -
Don’t Give Cash Performance Bonuses in a Loss-Making Company
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleBonuses, particularly performance bonuses, negotiated up-front, are standard and reasonable fare in established businesses. Some smart people think they’re a good idea in start-ups, too. The basic argument is the same for start-ups as it is for other companies: incentives focus and motivate managers and individual contributors alike; tying compensation to goals stimulates performance. It’s […]
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Keller Fund's Option Investment Strategies
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A closed-end mutual fund's decision to study option trading provides an opportunity to study the profit profile and pricing of multiple option investment... -
Michael Ovitz and The Walt Disney Co. (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Faced with the need to hire a new president, The Walt Disney Co. pursued Michael Ovitz, a founder of the Creative Artist Agency. Although initially disinterested,... -
The Albeiro Vargas & the Guardian Angels Foundation (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case describes how FAVAC emerged and consolidated. During the Foundation's first 15 years, the care of elderly people - many of them with physical... -
Egon Zehnder International: Managing Professionals in an Executive Search Firm
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Compares the management of professionals at Egon Zehnder International, a leading executive search firm, and its competitors. Highlights recruitment,... -
Braddock Industries, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case examines the drivers of economic value creation for shareholders, and how these drivers are reflected in various incentive compensation programs... -
Bausch & Lomb, Inc.: Pressure to Perform
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Bausch & Lomb is the subject of press attacks and experiences a sharp fall in stock price when management practices are exposed. Aggressive goal setting,... -
Corporate Governance at Citic Pacific
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details On the evening of 20 October 2008, Citic Pacific, the Hong Kong arm of the CITIC Group, China's largest state-owned investment company, stunned the stock... -
Slavery
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Explores the general history of slavery in the United States. Through detailed exhibits and a text consisting of excerpts from six first-hand observations... -
Slade Co.
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Describes a conflict between the values and norms of a segment of an internal social system and those of management and the wider culture. -
Au Bon Pain: The French Bakery Cafe, the Partner/Manager Program
Technology & Operations Case Study6.95View Details In recent years, Au Bon Pain (ABP), a chain of upscale French bakeries/sandwich cafes based in Boston, confronted a set of human resource problems endemic... -
Jieliang Phone Home! (A)
Organizational Development Case Study14.00View Details At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators-bright and capable young men and (mostly) women... -
Customer-Introduced Variability in Service Operations
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Presents a typology of customer-introduced variability and offers guidance on how to manage each type. Central to the ideas developed is how to mitigate... -
Hospital 57357: Aligning Performance Towards a Vision of a Cancer-Free Childhood
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case follows the Children Cancer Hospital in Egypt, also known as Hospital 57357, as it goes through the roll-out of a new performance management... -
Margaret Huebner: Building the Human Resources Function at Oman's Port of Salalah
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case describes how consultant Margaret Huebner successfully updated the human resources (HR) function for the emergent Port of Salalah in the Sultanate... -
People Management
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Highlights critical gaps between research and practice in the field of strategic human resources management. Also, aims to debunk some myths and preconceptions... -
Massachusetts Pay-for-Success Contracts: Reducing Juvenile and Young Adult Recidivism
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the nature of juvenile recidivism in Massachusetts and explores the potential structure of a privately funded, publicly guaranteed... -
Charter Communications: Ensuring the Right Path Forward
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the considerations of an executive compensation analyst as he finalizes a report to the compensation and benefits committee of Charter... -
Shapiro Global
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Su Yee Goh, a director in a Singapore office, considers a proposal by a pregnant female executive for an alternative work arrangement so that she could... -
Lincoln Electric: Venturing Abroad
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Lincoln Electric, a 100-year-old manufacturer of welding equipment and consumables based in Cleveland, Ohio, motivates its U.S. employees through a culture... -
Costco Companies, Inc.
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Costco Companies, one of the major players in the wholesale club industry, has developed a new class of membership that offers discounted services--auto,...
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How to Keep Working When You're Just Not Feeling It
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMotivating yourself is one of the main things that sets high achievers apart, and it's hard. How do you keep pushing onward when your heart isn't into... -
9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2023 and Beyond
Business management Digital ArticleAmid a looming economic downturn, employers can expect another tumultuous year. -
Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleBy aligning executives' financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard... -
How a “Pay-to-Quit” Strategy Can Reveal Your Most Motivated Employees
Employee incentives Digital ArticleEverybody wins with this program. -
Ask an Expert: How Do I Ask for Time Off in a New Job?
Organizational Development AdviceThere is no such thing as "earning" a break. -
How to Return to Work After Taking Parental Leave
Career planning Best PracticeMake your first day back a Wednesday. -
Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition
Organizational Development SpotlightA lot of leaders believe that the formula for attracting and keeping talent is simple: Just ask people what they want and give it to them. The problem... -
Research: The Flexibility Options Your On-Site Employees Want
Organizational Development Digital ArticleGallup surveyed more than 5,700 fully on-site workers in the U.S. to find out which flexibility options are available to them - and which would entice... -
When You Find Out a Coworker Makes More Money than You Do
Compensation and benefits Digital ArticleGet more information before you react. -
Ending the War Between Sales and Marketing
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleSales departments tend to believe that marketers are out of touch with what's really going on in the marketplace. Marketing people, in turn, believe the...