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Human Resources

A Source of Value or a Source of Waste?

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99 percent of all employees want to do a good job. How they perform is simply a reflection of the one for whom they work.

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  1. 1.

    Orr, Linda, “Sales Force Productivity: Definition, Measurement, and Determinants,” 2014, working paper.

  2. 2.

    Hunter, J. E., & Hunter, R. F., “Validity and Utility of Alternative Predictors of Job Performance,” Psychological Bulletin, 1984, 76(1), p. 72–93.

  3. 3.

    Panek, Elliot T., Yioryos Nardis, and Sara Konrath, “Mirror or Megaphone?: How Relationships Between Narcissism and Social Networking Site Use Differ on Facebook and Twitter,” Computers in Human Behavior, 29(5), September 2013, p. 2004–2012.

  4. 4.

    Gallup, “State of the American Workplace,” 2013, http://www.gallup.com/file/strategicconsulting/163007/State%20of%20the%20American%20Workplace%20Report%202013.pdf .

  5. 5.

    Ibid.

  6. 6.

    Ibid.

  7. 7.

    Ruth Houston, “Shocking Statistics Reveal Link Between Office Christmas Parties and Infidelity,” The Examiner, December 15, 2011, http://www.examiner.com/article/shocking-statistics-reveal-link-between-office-christmas-parties-and-infidelity .

  8. 8.

    Gallup, “State of the American Workplace,” 2013, http://www.gallup.com/file/strategicconsulting/163007/State%20of%20the%20American%20Workplace%20Report%202013.pdf .

  9. 9.

    Ibid.

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Orr, L.M., Orr, D.J. (2014). Human Resources. In: Eliminating Waste in Business. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6089-9_5

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