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The Marginalized Workforce: How I-O Psychology Can Make a Difference by Douglas C. Maynard and Bernardo M. Ferdman discusses ways industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology can more effectively serve marginalized individuals, including immigrants, young employees, and contingent workers. Read the article in the online magazine TIP: The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist.
The Blind Spot of Economic Thought: Transforming Capitalism to A Regenerative Economy
The crisis of our time is not about financial or economic bankruptcies. The real crisis of our time is about an intellectual bankruptcy. Just as the crumbling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the end of one fundamentalist intellectual approach to society and the economy–called socialism or government fundamentalism–we see now the meltdown of another single sided approach to economics and the society: neoliberal capitalism or market fundamentalism.
Led by Otto Scharmer through the Presencing Institute’s Global Classroom, on June 11, 2009 at 10:00-11:30am, (USA – Masachusetts – time zone). To check your local time visit the World Clock at:
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Business as an Agent of World Benefit is offering a virtual workshop as part of a forum on Creating Containers for Massive Innovation: “Flourishing Destinies: Sustaining Continuity for Positive Change. ”
Through this virtual Appreciative Inquiry (AI) experience, they seek to discover and amplify the best, successful stories of implementing and sustaining positive change after a conference, workshop or other planning process over the long term – or in AI terms – throughout the destiny or implementation phase of the 4-D cycle.
To learn from scholars and practitioners from across disciplines and across the globe, log in and participate in this global discussion. Available, Monday, May 25 — Friday, June 12, 2009.
Dr. Sara Orem, a member of the Capella School of Business and Technology faculty, is co-author of two books: Appreciative Coaching and a new a new manual and workbook combining Asset-Based Thinking with Appreciative Coaching, The Coach’s Guide To Asset-Based Thinking and Appreciative Coaching.
Dr. Orem is now offering webinars for coaches and managers wanting to use Appreciative Coaching at work and in their coaching practices.
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New lingo emerges — but without clear definition, it can become meaningless jargon.
The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) recently surveyed 518 people representing a variety of organizational sizes and industries for the new ASTD/i4cp Talent Management Practices and Opportunities study. One result – a new definition for the term talent management.
They describe it as “a holistic approach to optimizing human capital, which enables an organization to drive short- and long-term results by building culture, engagement, capability, and capacity through integrated talent acquisition, development, and deployment processes that are aligned to business goals.” What do you think? If you’d change something please post your suggestions.
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The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) report, Workplace Visions: Can Sustainability Survive?, asks whether sustainability initiatives will survive the budget cuts associated with the recent economic turmoil. What do you see in your organization?
Both the Human Capital Institute and HR.com offer free, but rich, opportunities to interact directly with experts in an array of talent-related areas. Not surprisingly, HR.com focuses on topics in the human resources arena. The Human Capital Institute offers webinars every day on four tracks: Talent Strategy, Acquisition, Development and Leadership. Here are some selected upcoming events that might be of interest to the Organizational Perspectives community…
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The Value of Learning: How Organizations Capture Value and ROI begins with a description of the ever-intensifying reasons for measuring and evaluating learning of all kinds in organizations. Twelve challenges to doing so are listed; they point to complex theories and overly complicated statistical models, and the mistaken idea that evaluation occurs post-program.
Money is tight, many jobs have been lost across all sectors of the economy, across the globe. Organizations must make difficult choices and show results on any investment– including investments in human capital. The ROI Institute, Inc., offers a methodology organizations can use to collect the data and make decisions. Dr. Patti P. Phillips, president and CEO of the ROI Institute, shares her experience and expertise with Organizational Perspectives in an interview and a webinar. Three of her books are also reviewed here.
What are your experiences? In these tough economic times, how is success determined by decision-makers in your organization? Post your comments!
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How can return on investment in people be assessed? The ROI Institute helps organizations measure and show the value of human capital investments so all stakeholders have the information they need to make decisions. Dr. Patti P. Phillips, president and CEO of the ROI Institute, observes that ROI data can help make decisions about changing, expanding, reinvesting in, or killing a program. The ROI Institute methodology holds that to make the best decisions, it is essential to collect data about the success of the program from:
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