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A Players or "A Positions"? The Strategic Logic of Workforce Management (Spanish version)
Huselid, Mark A.; Beatty, Richard W.; Becker, Brian E.Article HBS-R0512GLeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Companies simply can't afford to have "A players" in all positions. Rather, businesses need to adopt a portfolio approach to workforce management, systematically identifying their strategically important A positions, supporting B positions and surplus C positions, ...Starting at €8.20
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Un nuevo deseo de ganar
McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1009LLeadership and People ManagementEn 2004, Rick Hendrick, dueño de la Operación de las carreras de NASCAR Hendrick Motorsports, perdió gran parte de su equipo de gestión en un accidente aéreo. Entre los muertos estaba su hermano y su único hijo, Ricky, quien Hendrick había estado preparando para hacerse cargo del negocio. Sin embargo, este accidente devastador inspirara a todos en la compañía a luchar con más fuerza, y transformaría Hendrick en un líder sabio.Starting at €8.20
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Put Strategy, Not People, First: An Introduction to Differentiated Workforce Strategy
Becker, Brian E.; Huselid, Mark A.; Beatty, Richard W.Book Chapter HBS-3237BC-ELeadership and People ManagementSenior managers and readers of popular business literature are probably familiar with the mantra that people are the new source of competitive advantage. But despite all the talk about a new strategic emphasis on the workforce, most companies haven't yet capitalized on the opportunity for strategic success that effective workforce management can provide. The authors believe that a fundamental change in the entire approach to workforce strategy is...Starting at €8.20
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Establish Leadership Accountability for Workforce Success: The Line Manager's HR Role
Becker, Brian E.; Huselid, Mark A.; Beatty, Richard W.Book Chapter HBS-3246BC-ELeadership and People ManagementHow do we ensure that firms clearly understand the unique strategic capabilities required to execute their business strategies and develop a differentiated workforce strategy? The first step is to recognize that the workforce is not just HR's problem, and that line managers and HR leaders have joint responsibility for developing talent throughout the organization. Management must ensure that top talent is allocated to the strategic roles that cre...Starting at €8.20
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Design an HR Architecture for the Differentiated Workforce
Becker, Brian E.; Huselid, Mark A.; Beatty, Richard W.Book Chapter HBS-3247BC-ELeadership and People ManagementIt is important that a firm's workforce strategy--and its workforce--is as differentiated as its business strategy. In this chapter, the authors discuss the importance of developing a culture of accountability and a workforce philosophy to help drive succStarting at €8.20
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Changing Gender on the Job
McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1011M-ELeadership and People ManagementMichael Wallent, twice married and the father of three, had been working at Microsoft for more than 11 years when he decided-with the full support of his wife-to transition to living as a woman. Rejecting the standard approach at big companies, whereby the HR department announces a transgendering (often at a meeting from which the affected employee is absent), Wallent chose to inform his superiors and his direct reports himself. He also urged the...Starting at €8.20
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Battling Back from Betrayal
McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1012M-ELeadership and People ManagementStephen Greer's Hong Kong-based scrap-metal-recycling company, Hartwell Pacific, was enjoying a period of fantastic growth in the late 1990s: Within 18 months, the firm grew from two employees to 200 and opened locations in seven countries. But Greer's experience offers a vivid illustration of what can go wrong when an entrepreneur ambitiously expands without understanding that emerging markets operate by very different rules. Greer didn't realiz...Starting at €8.20
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Developing Your Global Know-How
Russwurm, Siegfried; Hernandez, Luis; Chambers, Susan; Chung, Keumyong; McGinn, Daniel; Kuhn, Lothar; Geissler, CorneliaArticle HBS-R1103D-ELeadership and People ManagementFor up-and-coming executives, an overseas posting has long been a rite of passage, providing opportunities not available in their native countries and experience that can be invaluable to their companies both during the assignment and after their return home. How has the Great Recession affected this formula? HBR spoke with the top human resources executives at four multinationals about how their companies are adapting global assignments to meet ...Starting at €8.20
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Being More Productive
Allen, David; Schwartz, Tony; McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1105D-EAllen, the author of the best seller Getting Things Done, and Schwartz, the author of the best seller Be Excellent at Anything and the CEO of The Energy Project, are two of the world's foremost authorities on increasing personal efficiency. Yet although they agree on much, their ideas on how to maximize the output of knowledge workers are fundamentally different. In this edited conversation with HBR, they discuss their own approaches and what the...Starting at €8.20
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Life's Work: Desmond Tutu
Tutu, Desmond; McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1107S-EThe South African archbishop, civil rights leader, and Nobel Peace Prize winner talks about finding the patience to overcome apartheid and how he has benefited from the prayers of others.Starting at €8.20