Organizations are exploring some new and innovative performance management systems in an effort to truly inspire and motivate their teams with some encouraging results. Traditional performance management systems typically set goals related to the business plan, utilize performance appraisals that are too lengthy, redundant, hastily completed to meet deadlines and often don't allow employees any real input.
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Top Hotel Trends To Watch In 2015
The hotel industry generated $163 billion in revenue in 2013, up nearly 6 percent from 2012, according to the AHLA's 2014 Lodging Industry Profile. But with the rise of home-sharing and vacation rental businesses like Airbnb and HomeAway, the industry is being forced to improve upon the status quo and find new ways to appeal to travelers.
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Keeping Health Care Clean
Now General Sensing - co-founded by MIT Media Lab alumni Jonathan Gips SM '06 and Philip Liang SM '06 - is using smart devices to monitor hand hygiene among hospital staff and ensure compliance with WHO guidelines. The aim, Liang says, is to help reduce the spread of HAIs, which affected one in 25 U.S. hospital patients in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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