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The market is evolving so quickly that it’s hard to p... down exactly how many people are using these sites worldwide, but management c... McKinsey estimate approximately 3m tasks or projects each year,

pin down

management consultants

This article focuses on the impact of culture on the prevention and r... of c...

prevention and resolution of conflict

This can be a... to behavior changes by key managers and an emphasis on Diversity and Inclusion throughout the

organization.

attributed to

This might involve hot-d.... ideas workshops and regularly switching teams.

hot-desking

This new d..., combined with technological a... has fed demand for a more collaborative and f... working e....

diversity

technological advances

flexible working environment

This reveals whether someone has a sense of humor, of course, but also whether they can t... on  t....feet in a strange and unfamiliar situation

think on their feet (schnell reagieren)

This ties in with research on the effects of i.... conflict in teams.

interpersonal conflict

Those people expect much more e... eenvironments

entrepreneurial environments

Thus, rather than thinking that we should use our cross c..... communication s....  when we communicate between

different cultural groups,

cross cultural communication skills

to b.. for each task

bid for

to be given interesting work to do, to be rewarded on the basis of their contributions and to be given the chance to work hard and get a.... .

get ahead.

To be sure, some were traders but most were IT, finance, and a.... staff with unique knowledge of the unit’s systems.

administrative staff

To get the most out of young workers, it may in fact be wiser to put less emphasis on collaboration and corporate do-goodery, and more on r... individual p... and providing clear paths to career progress. Companies need to recognise that individual differences are always bigger than generational differences.

rewarding individual performance

To me, it meant he was passionate and able to b... skills on his own.

build skills

To this end, company bosses want managers around who won’t panic when things go wrong and are self- a... enough to recognize if their own actions might be the s.. o..  the problem.

self-aware

source of the problem

Today, grizzled b... p... tend to mix i... some praise with their gripes. But they abuse the privilege of age as much as anyone ever did.

grizzled business pundits

mix in

Too many companies approach the r... of key e..... .

retention of key employees

Vague answers in which candidates only p... themselves a.... bystanders to failures f... upon t... by outside forces do not build confidence.

paint themselves as

foisted upon them

Walk the talk:

Speaking of relaxed, the h...-strung won't f... well in front of Atul Kunwar,

the high-strung won’t fare well

Walmart decided to a...... into German territory.

advance into

Walmart now has a policy of emphasising l... c... (lokale Kulturen).

local cultures.

Watson can shift t.... symptoms, medical histories and the latest research to deliver diagnoses and suggest potential treatments, but there are limits to its diagnostic abilities and, unlike a human doctor, it cannot treat patients with empathy and understanding

sift through

we find strong, clear correlations between sleep patterns and concentration, between levels of anxiety and stress outside the w... and performance i... the workplace

outside the workplace

inside the workplace

We should develop a... communication p... to check out the basis of our perceptions.

develop acceptable communication protocols

What follows are three suggestions for companies with similar hopes of keeping their top talent w.... breaking the b....

without breaking the bank

What he’s after is a sense of the “n...- cognitive s... " that good leaders need to manage and inspire teams.

non-cognitive skills

What this means in practical terms is individuals having the freedom t.. take full o...

to take full ownership

When a European industrial company conducted this e.... it m.... the outputs o... a risk  m....

conducted this exercise, mapped, on a risk matrix

When executives at the European industrial company looked beyond their standard retention package (bonuses plus compensation for the costs of the move) and f.... instead on the n.... of individual employees, they found a more nuanced situation than they had a.....

focused, on the needs of, anticipated

When she asks candidates her g...-t... interview question, they should know —given her background

go-to

when successful businesses were built on economies of s... standardisation and a strict h...

economies of scale

strict hierarchy

While many i... also feel d... with conflict, it is a.... as an inevitable part of life that must be dealt with.

individualists

feel discomfort

acknowledged

who find it harder to make their r... savings stretch as the average life expectancy

retirement savings

workers often willing to complete tasks for as little as $1 an hour, will eventually have a knock-o... e.... on the wages of traditional employees

knock-on effect

you ask to c.. why things are being done differently.

clarify why

Young people in every generation change j.... more frequently than older people because they are looking for the right one. Young people also look for feedback because they are still learning t... r... .

change jobs

learning the ropes

“A certain type of older worker with s...-after skills can manage transitions from one job to another easily enough,

sought-after skills

“But,” he adds, “for a lot of people, not only those in low-s...., p... demanding jobs but also those who don’t have that much experience m... j... transitions

low-skill, physically demanding jobs

making job transitions

“I like to watch how they handle t.... in an unstructured environment, " he says.

handle themselves

“I told him to sing for us, a very senior p... of e...., "

senior panel of executives