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Episode Archive
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#37 Employee Retention. One Problem, multiple Views
Losing a valuable employee could just be a pity or even a tragedy. The problem seems to be clear. However, the way how companies deal with this topic really differs. Some do everything to protec...
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#36 Strategies to get Employee Surveys straight
Employee survey are among the most commonly used approaches in HR. The classic idea is to ask everyone everything so that all people work on almost anything. This episode proposes an alternative...
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#35 What makes flexible working conditions really flexible?
There are a lot of measures known about how to shape flexible working arrangements. However, the most important question is, who decides upon those measures. By any mean, there must be a match b...
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#34 What it really means being an attractive Employer
Most company strive for being attractive employers. However, there is much confusion about what this actually could mean. What seems simple and nice might turn out as a concept of multiple dilem...
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#33 The Puzzle of Compensating High Performers in Teams
Even in teams there might be high performers. Treating high performers differently might be a mistake. Not doing so might be a mistake too. You might either kill collaboration or you lose or not...
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#32 Does Pay for Performance really motivate?
Contingent pay could either increase or decrease employees’ motivation. It is an oversimplified and often wrong idea about money being a motivator only. Often rewards could even do harm. Whether...
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#31 Fundamentals and Strategies of Base Pay
Base pay could be seen as a kind of flat rate. It mainly becomes relevant when it comes to attracting and retaining people. While most companies share a common approach on how to manage compensa...
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#30 Meanings and Effects of Remuneration
Remuneration is not only about financials. It’s a social and psychological matter. When thinking about compensation system, four themes are to be taken into consideration: fairness, motivation, ...
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#29 Managing Careers of Experts who do not manage
Some experts might be more critical to a company’s organizational success than some managers or executives. However, experts have a different impact and their careers look different. Once a comp...
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#28 The Power of Experience for personal Growth
To a large extend people learn through experience. There are powerful ways to manage this particular way of development. In this episode we talk primarily about, action learning, which is a comm...