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engagement talent management human capital human resources

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  • MSLOC Northwestern University on 11 Jan 14
     
    Gallup Business Journal by Robyn Reilly January 7, 2014 Only 13% of employees worldwide are engaged at work. Managers everywhere can help solve this problem -- and reap the benefits of higher employee engagement. Shared by Sonya Perez-Lauterbach, MSLOC student via Twitter
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You're Distracted. This Professor Can Help. - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 0 views

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  • Last year he and a team of colleagues reported the results of a National Science Foundation-backed experiment that combined meditation with multitasking. The subjects were human-resource managers. Some got meditation training, and others did not. They were then asked to complete tasks, such as scheduling a meeting, amid a barrage of interruptions from e-mail, instant messages, phone calls, and knocks on the door.
  • The results: Those who had received meditation training were less fragmented in their work, switching tasks less frequently and spending more time on each one. They also showed less stress and better memory. The
  • Ulrich Mayr, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, studies multitasking. When Stanford convened a conference on that subject in 2009, he emphasized that "multitasking is actually rapid task switching, since the human brain does just one thing at a time."
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  • To understand the ideas, students need to link them to things they already know, creating a network of associations that Mr. Mayr describes as "a rich knowledge structure." That happens only if they pay attention and think about the lesson.
  • All content in long-term memory is represented in two ways: "as a sense of familiarity on the one hand, and whether or not you truly understand it."
  • People often mistake familiarity for understanding. They open the textbook after getting home from a lecture, and they recognize the material. They think: I get this. Then they take a test—and bomb it.
  • Mr. Nass, of Stanford, has found that people who chronically multitask are less able to focus and worse at managing working memory. They're also worse at switching between tasks.
  • Supertaskers"—a tiny sliver of humanity who multitask with ease—as well as a report from that 2009 multitasking seminar at Stanford.
  • Information and Contemplation: a Reading List A selection of readings from a course taught by David M. Levy at the University of Washington
  • Kimberly Scott on 20 Jan 14
     
    Using meditation in the classroom to improve focus. Summarizes research on multi-tasking with technology. Includes reading recommendations.
Kimberly Scott

Managing Organizational Change - Encyclopedia - Business Terms | Inc.com - 0 views

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  • Kimberly Scott on 21 Jan 14
     
    Description of the types of organizational change
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The Right Way to Answer "What's Your Greatest Weakness?" - David Reese - Harvard Busine... - 0 views

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  • MSLOC Northwestern University on 03 Mar 14
     
    Author: David Reese January 17, 2014 Shared by: Andee Weinfurter, MSLOC Student
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