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Work-Life Balance: The Impact of Policy and Practice on the Human Resource Function
This study examined whether work-life balance initiatives provided a positive climate for flexible working that can translate into improved individual and organizational performance.
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The Immigration Controversy
The United States is a land of immigrants. The liberal principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution have enabled it to make Americans out of people from widely diverse places and cultures. Yet, from the nation’s founding, immigration has been a contentious issue, particularly when the newcomers were in some way “different”…
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Talent Management Processes for a Diverse Leadership Team
Understand which talent management practices work best for uncovering high potential talent from non-traditional populations and making sure that talent is able to penetrate the senior leadership levels in substantial numbers.
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How Good Jobs Help Workers, Employers, and Communities Thrive
When it comes to jobs, we can all do better by doing “good.”
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What exactly is a good job?
It’s easy to see that quality of life often starts with a good job. But defining what constitutes a good job is complex. Can we say exactly what makes a job “good”?
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Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) – Future of Work Fellowship
Funded by a philanthropic gift, the ILR Future of Work Fellowship program supports postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students who work with Cornell’s world-leading faculty on innovative and impactful research projects.
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Agent-Based Simulation: Quantifying the Link from Job Quality to Business Performance
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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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.
