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For years, learning and development (L&D) was treated as a support function—valuable, but not core to driving business outcomes. However, that mindset is shifting. Today’s top HR leaders are embedding L&D directly into business strategy, and the results are measurable. Guild’s new report, From Cost to Catalyst: An HR Leader’s Guide to Maximizing the […]
Companies talk a big game about diversity and inclusion, often with an intense focus on increasing diversity representation at the highest levels of leadership. Yet many of these same companies struggle to hire, retain, and promote diverse employees. In light of the “Great Resignation” taking place, in which employees who weren’t happy in their jobs […]
Here’s the bottom line. Management professor Matthew Bidwell, of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, has researched the question for several years—from 2003 to 2009. The basics of his findings are these: External hires get significantly lower performance evaluations for their first 2 years on the job than do internal workers who are […]