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AI Is Changing Work. Now It Has to Change the Organization | McKinsey Quarterly

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Work without Jobs: How to Reboot Your Organization’s Work Operating System

The traditional notion of a job continues to be challenged as work becomes less predictable, more fluid, and affected by rapid disruption.

Ravin Jesuthasan and John W. Boudreau

Data-Driven Organization Design: Delivering Perpetual Performance Gains Through the Organizational System 2nd Edition

The topic of organization design has received renewed interest as organizations transform in response to changing business contexts, workplaces, and the workforce.

Rupert Morrison

Excellence in People Analytics: How to Use Workforce Data to Create Business Value

Various sources, such as LinkedIn’s Global Talent Trends Report and Mercer’s Global Talent Trend Report, continue to reinforce how vital people analytics (PA) has become in many organizations.

Jonathan Ferrar and David Green

Remote Work: Redesign Processes, Practices, and Strategies to Engage a Remote Workforce

While remote work (RW) was on the rise before the pandemic, the COVID-19 crisis has cemented this work arrangement as a prominent and permanent fixture in the workplace.

Chris Dyer and Kim Shepherd

Wellbeing at Work

Although employee wellbeing (EWB) was a priority before the coronavirus pandemic, the crisis has made EWB and work-life integration a non-negotiable for many workers.

Jim Clifton and Jim Harter

Redefining HR: Transforming People Teams to Drive Business Performance 1st Edition

As HR organizations and professionals continue to adapt their strategies, practices, and processes to fit a new world of work, this book (released) January 26, 2021)

Lars Schmidt

Data-driven HR: How To Use Analytics And Metrics To Drive Performance

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the use of data and analytics, especially within the context of HR, continues to be a hot topic as organizati

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Strategic Workforce Planning: Developing Optimized Talent Strategies for Future Growth

After publishing an article on strategic workforce planning (SWP) in the Fall 2019 edition of People + Strategy, I

by Ross Sparkman

Agile Workforce Planning: How to Align People with Organizational Strategy for Improved Performance

As legacy strategic workforce planning (SWP) approaches continue to become less effective in an environment of constant change and unpredictability,

Adam Gibson

The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity

The internal gig economy, also knows as the Internal Talent Marketplace, is a marketplace within an organization where employees, their skills, and their interest

Edie Goldberg and Kelley Steven-Waiss

Learning Analytics: Using Talent Data to Improve Business Outcomes: 2nd Edition.

As organizations continue to evaluate and measure the impact of learning and development initiatives, learning analytics can be leveraged to

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Performance Management Transformation: Lessons Learned and Next Steps

Over the past several years performance management (PM ) has been one of the most debated HR business-related practices across many

Elaine Pulakos and Mariangela Battista

Measurement Demystified: Creating Your L&D Measurement, Analytics, and Reporting Strategy

While HR and learning and development (L&D) leaders understand the importance of measuring and demonstrating the value of learning initiatives, doing so can be a challenge...

Dave Vance and Peggy Parskey

Introduction to People Analytics: A Practical Guide to Data-driven HR 1st Edition

It used to be that only those employees on data and analytic teams had to have an understanding of People Analytics (PA). However, with PA becoming

Nadeem Khan and Dave Millner

Proving the Value of Soft Skills: Measuring Impact and Calculating ROI

According to the LinkedIn 2020 Workforce Learning Report, "soft-skills" or the essential interpersonal skills that make or break our ability to get things done

Jack Phillips, Patti Phillips, Rebecca Ray

The Upskilling Imperative: 5 Ways to Make Learning Core to the Way We Work

As rapid technological innovation, economic conditions, and shifts in how and where work gets done continues to shorten the relevancy of skills, organizations are increasingly investing in

Shelley Osborne

Employee Surveys and Sensing: Challenges and Opportunities

Understanding employee and worker sentiment continue to be an important capability for most organizations. nd with employee sentiment

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Financial Analysis for HR Managers: Linking HR Strategy to Business Strategy

As HR professionals continue to be expected to cost optimization with the HR function continues, it is increasingly important for HR

Steven Director

Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance and What We Can Do About It

With employee wellness and wellbeing continuing to rise up the agenda as an organizational priority, this book by Jeffrey Pfeffer highlights

Jeffrey Pfeffer
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