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Making feedback work
HR execs give pointers on improving 360-degree feedback systems.
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Pitfalls of hiring through referrals
20 per cent of jobs are advertised, hence 80 percent are filled by referrals.
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Is your face right for your job?
What's right for you? Your face shape may give you some clues.
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Productivity means working smarter
Shorter hours and giving results that exceed expectations.
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Er, what is productivity?
The less input needed to produce the same output, the higher the productivity.
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Why minimum wage system won't work
Forced higher wages all round will lead to increased liquidity and inflationary pressure on prices.
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Right attitude crucial in raising productivity
Unless our workers are prepared to embrace job enlargement and job rotation, they will lag behind in terms of productivity and innovation.
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Old ways of managing staff had advantages
We should study productive countries in Asia and the West and adopt whatever works for us, instead of reinventing the wheel.
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Reward employees who work smart
Reader: Let the smartest and most productive employees go home earliest and have the most vacation time.
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Better pay, higher productivity
Workers' productivity must be improved to raise S'pore's economic growth. -myp
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Some home truths about staying jobless
It may spur them on to be more persistent about finding a job. -ST
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HR changes in the past decade
Benefits, revised notions of work are among the concepts that have evolved quietly.
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MOM doesn't look at jobless rate alone
They look at the employment rate and include job seekers who have stopped looking for work.
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Fancy job titles can raise workers' morale
Such titles could alter employees' mindsets.
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Average age of Starhub workers is above 35
StarHub does not practise age discrimination in their hiring process.
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First World country, First World work terms
If a business in a First World country is not earning enough to provide decent incomes and First World working conditions, it is not sustainable.
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Will IR jobs unwanted by S'poreans go to foreigners?
Should this be the case, would the employment quota on the number of foreign workers be maintained?
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Age requirement not stated in job ad
Is it age discrimination if advertisement does not state that those above 35 years of age need not apply?
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