Story Tag: Utilizing strength
7 Ways to Ensure Disability Inclusion in the Workplace lifo.bconglobal.com
Despite articles highlighting the benefits that individuals with disabilities may provide to employers, too many businesses are hesitant to hire people with disabilities. They believe that hiring (some) people with disabilities is “the right thing to do,” but not part of a personnel strategy that will benefit the organization and justify the associated costs and risks. In fact, according to recent research by the National Organization on Disability, only 13% of corporations in the United States have met the Department of Labor’s aim of having 7% disability representation in their workforce.
Productivity Booster Managerial Elements lifo.bconglobal.com
According to Life Orientations (LIFO)®, a healthy, productive, and engaged workforce needs management that embraces and ensures:
Planning:
Setting plans to provide employees with a sense of purpose. Employees need to know the goals and feel a sense of contribution.
(Conserving-Holding Style Strength)
How to Increase Productivity and Boost Retention lifo.bconglobal.com
When employees are engaged, they are productive. Productivity boosts morale, thus increasing the retention rate. Life Orientations (LIFO®) provides a productivity tool that allows organizations to boost productivity based on a solid process.
Step 1: Being aware that there is a productivity problem, establishing this sense across management.
Step 2: This step focuses on building an agreement between top management, the organization, and the responsible human resources parties. The agreement focuses on particular problems related to productivity within the organization.
Step 3: This step is about the collection and analysis of data related to the areas of diagnosis agreed upon in step #2.
Step 4: This stage identifies the problems resulting from step 3. It is also essential to gain commitment from management and involved parties to work on the issues during this step.
Step 5: This step is about leaping the problem to finding possible solutions.
Step 6: Implementation of Improvement involves implementing plans and ideas generated in the above steps.
Resignation Vs Retention: Two Opposite Forces lifo.bconglobal.com
In the United States, companies have a huge amount of available vacancies. Since April 2021, more than 19 million US workers—and counting—have departed their employment, a record rate that has wreaked havoc on businesses across the country. Companies are battling the issue, and many will continue to do so for one simple reason:
Leadership: A Mix and Match in a Hybrid Workplace lifo.bconglobal.com
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the workplace we were familiar with is no longer there. And with newer technologies and changes in working style, a new model has taken its place – still being defined – and developed even as it is being put into action.
This so-called distributed workforce paradigm, which combines working from home with working in the office, is no longer "in the far future" idea.
It's here already, and it's here to stay. With the new acronym: Hybrid workplace, it's up to us to make sure we have the correct teams in place and that the support, structure, and viability of those teams contribute to increased engagement and, ultimately, higher productivity and profitability.
Six Telltale Signs of an Unhealthy Organizational Culture lifo.bconglobal.com
Organizational culture sets the context for everything an enterprise does. Because industries and situations vary significantly, there is no one-size-fits-all culture template that meets the needs of all organizations. Does this mean that there is a good culture and a bad one? Well, the simple answer is yes. However, the answer is more complicated than a simple "Yes." Let's catch the six Telltale Signs of an unhealthy organizational culture:
Six Telltale Signs of an Unhealthy Organizational Culture visual.ly
Organizational culture sets the context for everything an enterprise does. Because industries and situations vary significantly, there is no one-size-fits-all culture template that meets the needs of all organizations. Does this mean that there is a good culture and a bad one? Well, the simple answer is yes. However, the answer is more complicated than a simple "Yes." Let's catch the six Telltale Signs of an unhealthy organizational culture:
An Adventurous Tale of Culture and Diversity lifo.bconglobal.com
In an organization where various peoples from different age, generation, background, culture, and many other kind of diversity belongs to, it is always a challenge to make them to be able to work together in harmony and healthy environment. The organization needs values and beliefs which shared and adopted within all the persons in it.
Up the Ladder, a Leader, and a Mother lifo.bconglobal.com
Nancy Green, president, and chief executive officer of Athleta, said that motherhood helped her focus more. It helped her get things done at the office, go back home, and make it for dinner with her kids. She also said that the nurturing side of parenthood helped her understand her employees more, thus, manage them better.
History of the Term "Working-Mothers" lifo.bconglobal.com
In this very last century, the number of working mothers got drastically increased. One of the most highly regarded roles for its difficulty and nobility, working-mother is not only about a bunch of a whole new lot of tasks, but also about handling a whole load of emotions. It is a full responsibility to take care of other human beings. But when did the term working-mothers really starts?