פרקטיקום בייעוץ ארגוני חברת מנטורס

18/10/2019

“ To understand the concept of holarchy in the context of self-organization, it is vital to understand and differentiate between two distinctly different yet deeply interconnected types of holons. It is in this differentiation that we can truly begin to understand self-organizing in a way that serves humans AND the organizations whose purposes they energize.
Every individual holon has distinct autonomy, is self-contained and self-directed, and is made up of parts. A human being is an individual holon with a distinct “I-ness”, and yet still made up of organs such as the heart, liver, and lungs. Those organs consist of cells, molecules, atoms, and so on. Each organ, cell, molecule, etc. in itself is an individual holon. Each holds parts that are individual holons and, at the same time, are a part of a larger whole.”

Part 2: People and Organization — Differentiated, Yet Not Separated

16/10/2019

״ Both concepts of comparative and competitive advantage play a major part in decisions made by countries as to which of their produce will be exported. Whether the country has a competitive or comparative advantage will influence its decision making, ensuring that goods exported will result in higher levels of profit and lower opportunity cost. These concepts are different to each other even though comparative advantage is also a form of competitive advantage. As these terms are easily confused by many, the following article aims to resolve this confusion with a clear explanation of the two concepts.״

Introduction In business, a competitive advantage is the attribute that allows an organization to outperform its competitors. A compe...

11/10/2019

״ The present research tested whether mindfulness, a state characterized by focused, nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment, increases prosocial behavior in the workplace or work-related contexts. Study 1a was a longitudinal field experiment at a US insurance company. Compared to workers under waitlist control, employees who were assigned to a daily mindfulness training reported more helping behaviors over a five day period both in quantitative surveys and qualitative daily diaries. Study 1b, conducted in a large consulting company in India, extends these findings with a field experiment in which co-workers rated the prosocial behavior of teammates in a round robin design. Moving from devoting time to devoting money, in Study 2a and 2b we find that individuals randomly assigned to engage in a focused breathing meditation were more financially generous. To understand the mechanisms of mindfulness’ effects on prosocial behavior, Study 3 found support for empathy and moderate support for perspective taking as mediators. This study also examined the effects of induced state mindfulness via two different mindfulness inductions, focused breathing and loving kindness meditation. Our results indicate secular state mindfulness can make people more other-oriented and helpful. This benefit holds even in workplace contexts, where being helpful toward others might face constraints but is nevertheless of great importance.
Keywords: mindfulness; meditation; prosocial behavior; empathy; perspective taking; altruism; loving kindness״

03/10/2019

The energy transition will make grid planning and operations increasingly challenging for transmission and distribution operators. Advanced-analytics modeling can help.

08/07/2019

June 25, 2019: Yehuda N. Fruchter posted on LinkedIn

29/06/2019

For employers soft skills are just as important as hard skills. Here are the differences and more importantly how you can get them.

29/06/2019

״Modern workplaces demand that all employees possess soft skills. Indeed, soft skills can be more difficult to acquire than professional degrees and experience. Without them, any hard skills are far less valuable. So when screening candidates, don’t just try to uncover how well they know a particular software program or platform–get to the heart of how they interact with others.״

Struggling to suss out a candidate's soft skills? Try these 9 strategies.

22/05/2019

A wholesale replacement of the traditional management hierarchy.

09/05/2019

״people are particularly averse to robots taking jobs that require social and emotional skills (think social worker), but they are more comfortable with robots taking jobs that require analytical skills (think data analyst). Though the respondents were speaking for themselves, not for their employers, organizations seem inclined to divvy up work along similar lines.

Variability, the second skill set experts urge us to develop in the automation age, is our capacity for managing change and variety at work״

In the race for jobs, the capacity for leisure can give humans a surprising edge.