Lean Manufacturing and Meaningful Work

Lean Manufacturing and Meaningful Work

The trend to implement lean manufacturing has been in motion for decades. Lean manufacturing seeks to optimize material flow through factories by reducing wastes associated with non-value-added tasks, variability, and overburden. However, lean manufacturing principles...
Skills-Based Hiring Is on the Rise

Skills-Based Hiring Is on the Rise

Two decades ago, companies began adding degree requirements to job descriptions, even though the jobs themselves hadn’t changed. After the Great Recession, many organizations began trying to back away from those requirements. To learn how the effort is going, the...
5 Components To Achieving Happiness At Work

5 Components To Achieving Happiness At Work

While most of us would agree that we would rather have employees be happy than unhappy, so complex is the nature of happiness that it often seems something that is beyond the duty of an employer to provide. After all, as Richard Easterlin famously describes in his...
How to Design a Better Hiring Process

How to Design a Better Hiring Process

Many standard interview processes rely on outdated behavioral questions like “What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?” to evaluate prospective hires. But more often than not, these types of questions fail to reveal useful information about a candidate’s...