Organizational Behavior

How Your Business Can Embrace the Gig Economy

2 months ago By Zachary Amos

The gig economy has grown exponentially in recent years, revolutionizing how companies approach staffing and workforce management. Characterized by freelance and short-term contracts, this dynamic workforce model offers flexibility, cost-efficiency and access to specialized skills.

Understanding how to harness the gig economy can give businesses a competitive edge. Here are 10 strategies for effectively integrating gig workers into their operations.

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Manage your online reputation tactics well before it’s too late

6 years ago By Charlie Brown

Your organization reputation is essential. It's an asset that you need to keep secure. When your online reputation gets affected, you might lose sales, customers, partners as well as employees. Not all business takes their online reputation management seriously. They don't look to check if they have positive or negative feedback in Google search results.

How can you secure your brand reputation? The ORM (online reputation management) experts suggest that business owners should optimize their web content proactively. Also, monitor the search results on a regular basis. And when negative news pops up, businesses and organizations should be proactive to mitigate that with correct efforts and actions.

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10 Questions to Ask an Internet Marketing Agency Before Engaging

7 years ago By Dawn Mentzer

Strategizing and executing Internet marketing campaigns require specialized expertise and hours of effort. Unless your company has the knowledge, skills, tools and time to handle all of your digital marketing efforts, you’ll need the assistance of a digital marketing firm.

But how can you know whether you’re entering into a relationship with a partner who is not only capable of helping you reach your goals, but also a good fit with your company culture?

Both components are essential because:

You want to work with a firm that's adept at increasing traffic to your website and converting that traffic into leads and sales.

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Pay-for-Pounds Contests Prompting Workplace Weight Loss

8 years ago By Merilee Kern

Four Key Marketing Strategies Helping Business Groups of all Sizes ‘"Diet for Dollars" to Boost Bottom Lines as Innovative Workplace Wellness Approach

While the modern-day workplace is rife with technology and other advancements that have made it more efficient, productive and profitable from a business standpoint, it seems much of that progress is having an adverse effect on the collective waistline—and well-being in general—of America’s workforce.

Four ideas that can boost employee productivity

8 years ago By Andrea Bell

When it comes to boosting employee productivity, it is not uncommon for companies to implement once-every-season tactic of distributing bonuses and other perks. However, as time goes on, employee priorities tend to shift from monetary gain to flexible working hours and more. Employee productivity, therefore, should be a company’s priority all year round. After all, a company is only as good as its employees.

Be it customer satisfaction, driving key company metrics, handling large investments, all activities are crucial to a company’s success. Camaraderie between employees and their heads increases recognition, makes communication easier and forms a strong company culture under which employees can work with genuine interest.

3 Keys to Combat Proliferating Pessimism among Americans

8 years ago By Guest Author

Expert strategies for helping people to shift their focus away from their problems and onto a more positive, productive and rewarding life

By Dr. Jeffery Chapman, Sr.

Mobile Workspaces Are Not Ready For The Cyber Threats Of Tomorrow

8 years ago By Real Wire

While the mobile endpoint is a potential game changer for businesses, it exposes mobile workers to security risks and vulnerabilities

12 October 2016 - Dimension Data, the $7.5 billion global ICT solutions and services provider, today published a white paper[1] that examines the need for organizations to transform in order to allow employees to work in more mobile workspaces. In fact, enterprises that fail to offer employees a flexible, autonomous, and creative work environment are at risk of not attracting and retaining next-generation talent. However, most workspaces are not ready for the cyber threats of tomorrow.

Scoring Social Goodness via Xocial

8 years ago By Merilee Kern

Gamifying Goodness: New ‘Social Impact Scoring System’ Spurs a Movement of Competitive Kindness

How nice are you? The xocial online community is calculating and curating “competitive kindness” to help mere mortals out-nice each other, and make the world a better place

Are you using your superpowers for good? One optimistic online community called xocial (pronounced soh-shuhl) is now giving cause-conscious and otherwise kindhearted businesses and individuals the ability to do good, see good, feel good and measure good.

Quoting IT: The Work of Others

8 years ago By CMS Report

"So the next time you call someone’s job easy — or tell an employee to go pick some low-hanging fruit — stop yourself. Respect the work that you’ve never done before. Remind yourself that other people’s jobs aren’t so simple."

- Jason Fried, Co-founder of Basecamp, How the 'Low-Hanging Fruit' Myth Is Hurting Your Business, Inc., Septemer 2016.

Visual hacking experiment shows workers vulnerable

8 years ago By Real Wire

87 per cent of visual hacks were successful

Bracknell, UK, 21 June, 2016 – 3M, the science-based technology company, has revealed the results of a UK and worldwide experiment that demonstrates ’visual hacking’ is a significant risk .

In the UK, the rate of successful visual hacks – many of which were achieved by viewing people’s computer screens – was 87 per cent, compared to an average of 91 per cent worldwide. Alarmingly, the ‘white hat hacker’ was confronted in a global average of only 32 per cent of occasions.