The key to creating a consistent corporate culture across multiple locations is maintaining the critical balance between a strong corporate culture and local cultural differences. The report presented in this paper examines the changing roles the Human Resource HR function plays in a globally competitive marketplace and identifies the challenges...
Development Dimensions International DDI has introduced AcqHire, a new online recruitment and hiring tool designed to help employers identify and hire the best candidates for the job. AcqHire uses Targeted Selection, DDI's behavior-based interviewing system, and TS: Access, a software tool for generating online interview guides and integrating applicant information....
The quality that leaders respect most in other leaders is the ability to bring in financial results, according to a recent report by talent-development consultancy Development Dimensions International DDI. In DDI's fourth annual survey, nearly 5,000 "leaders" and human resources representatives around the world ranked decision-making ability second and vision...
Development Dimensions International surveyed more than 1,500 leaders and more than 1,400 associates from 14 countries around the world for its "Leadership Forecast 2003-2004" report. Here's a recap of some of its findings as they pertain t Development Dimensions International surveyed more than 1,500 leaders...
Development Dimensions International DDI has introduced AcqHire, a new online recruitment and hiring tool designed to help employers identify and hire the best candidates for the job. AcqHire uses Targeted Selection, DDI's behavior-based interviewi Development Dimensions International DDI has introduced AcqHire, a new online recruitment...
From the executive summary: ‘The foundation of medicine is knowledge-information gathered, interpreted, and applied in a timely manner. Its success hinges on how that information is perceived and transmitted from one provider to another across a continuum of settings. Health care could easily be a prototype industry for the Information...
In today’s dynamic business scenario, change is inevitable. It is imperative for organizations to devise suitable strategies for countering the environmental changes. Leadership involves getting work done through others by delegating and sharing responsibilities. A leader has skills required to motivate, influence, and direct others towards attainment of certain pre-defined...
Outsourcing is a strategy towards creating a leaner organization. The business activity sub-let to an outsourced vendor would otherwise been performed internally within the organization. Outsourcing can be seen as an approach to cut operational costs and enhance the quality of outsourced processes. This is because strategic business activities are...
One issue that could account for the gap between perceived needs and realized results is the evolution of the leader's role. As the velocity of business and pace of change have increased, and as organizations have reduced the layers and numbers of leaders, the demands on people who are asked...
A key challenge facing organizations and their leadership today is how to deliver on the commitments they make when announcing critical changes, and HR initiatives are particularly vulnerable to being placed in the "tried this, but it didn't work" junkyard. "Installation" of the intended change is seldom in jeopardy; it...
More than ever before, organizations are of the belief that their people are a significant differentiator - that they are the business. But many are failing to transform this powerful belief into action. And those that are, are failing to see the results that should logically follow their attempts to...
PITTSBURGH -- Development Dimensions International DDI, a global human resources consulting firm, announced today that PeopleSoftR certified an integration between DDI's Total Performance Solution and PeopleSoft's Workforce Performance Solutions WPS suite. As a result, PeopleSoft customers can quickly upload and populate DDI competencies into the PeopleSoft WPS module ePerformance using...
Organizations with strong performance management systems are nearly 50 percent more likely to outperform their competitors, a Development Dimensions International DDI study reports. "Managing Performance: Building Accountability for Or Organizations with strong performance management systems are nearly ...
Jun 13, 2006 (Benchmarking HR - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A white paper has been prepared by Development Dimensions International DDI and the Economist Intelligence Unit. It is claimed in the paper that CEOs are devoting up to 20 per cent of their time ...
Organizations with strong performance management systems are nearly 50 percent more likely to outperform their competitors, a Development Dimensions International DDI study reports. "Managing Performance: Building Accountability for Or Organizations with strong performance management systems are nearly ...
Labor Day may be a golfer's last chance to work on a faulty golf swing -- and many top executives may be facing their last chance to correct the flaws in their leadership styles. A new survey concludes that many of today's leaders have...
A shift to self-directed teams helped this in-plant to boost morale and improve the quality of work Working at Development Dimensions International's DDI printing, manufacturing and distribution division used to be cut and dried--managers d A shift to...
From the executive summary: ‘The effective implementation of teams can provide a powerful competitive advantage. Organizations worldwide are using teams as a business strategy to increase quality and customer service, improve productivity, and decrease costs. In addition, these organizations are also reporting improved morale as employees realize opportunities to participate...
What type of emotional transition is experienced by professional dancers who face the end of their career? What does this journey imply? This article discusses the transition experiences of two case studies out of a total sample of fourteen (N=14) international professional ballet dancers who left their...
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