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Agent-Based Simulation
The goal of this project is to develop a computer simulation that quantifies the link between elevating the workplace experience of frontline workers and superior business results.
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Job Quality is a Pathway to Alpha
What business results are possible when you redesign jobs? In “Job Quality is a Pathway to Alpha,” IRC4HR is funding development of educational materials and an information campaign to raise awareness of the evidence base regarding the power of improving jobs to generate above-market returns (alpha).
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Healing our fractured society: A role for companies
It might sound strange, but after more than three decades as a consultant and researcher on organization culture, I believe the workplace has the potential to strengthen our fraying social fabric and lift our spirits.
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IRC® Research Archive
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., founded Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc., or IRC, in 1926. In 2015, the organization rebranded as Innovation Resources Center for Human Resources, or IRC4HR. (Read more about our history.) This section of our website presents a collection of IRC® white papers, research, and opinion pieces. While much of the research was conducted prior…
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Blog+
The IRC4HR blog and a selection of interesting articles curated for IRC4HR’s readers.
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For Grantseekers
What types of research do we fund? Innovation Resource Center for Human Resources (IRC4HR®) funds research that produces practical and actionable insights to help organizations, leaders, and workers succeed together through the profound business and social challenges of the 21st-century workplace. We seek to fund what we refer to as ‘pracademic’ research – studies that…
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About
Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc. (IRC), was established as a non-profit in 1926 — with funds donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr. — to promote positive employment relations and advances in human resources management through consulting, research, and education. In the words of IRC’s original mission statement, these activities will “advance the knowledge and practice of…
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How to solve today’s talent challenges — and prepare for tomorrow’s business opportunities
“Eco-system” mindsets, behaviors, and business structures are needed now and for the future.