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Read the latest research conducted by Right Management. Stay informed on current workforce management trends and best practices, and receive practical advice that can improve your organization’s performance. 

• Why Global Leaders Succeed and Fail

• Business results depend on bringing leaders of all levels to the peak of their potential in accelerated time frames and with maximum efficiency. New challenges are confronting leaders at a quickening pace. No organization can afford to overlook leader development.

• How Companies are Hiring Today: A World Perspective

• As organizations meet the challenges in the global readjustment to economic trends, the critical decision to restructure and reduce employee head counts becomes a strategic imperative.

• Managing Succession: Global Insights on Current Practices

• Managing succession is the cornerstone to strategic viability, ensuring business continuity, retention of high-value talent and a formidable culture. Right Management conducted research with 43 organizations from 10 industries across the globe to learn more about the current succession management practices within organizations.

• SHRM Foundation’s Effective Practice Guidelines Series: Onboarding New Employees: Maximizing Success, Sponsored by Right Management

• Half of all hourly workers leave jobs in the first four months and half of senior executives brought in from the outside fail within 18 months. Clearly, there is room for improvement.You're focused on growth and have committed to investing in acquiring new talent. Now reap the return and accelerate success by onboarding new employees. Onboarding helps new hires adjust to the social and performance aspects of their jobs so they can quickly become productive, contributing members of the organization.

• SHRM Foundation’s Effective Practice Guidelines Series: Employment Downsizing and Its Alternatives, Sponsored by Right Management

• Employment downsizing has become a fact of working life as companies struggle to cut costs and adapt to changing market demands. But does this practice achieve the desired results? Studies have tracked the performance of downsizing firms versus non-downsizing firms for as long as nine years after a downsizing event. The findings: As a group, the downsizers never outperform the non-downsizers. Companies that simply reduce headcounts, without making other changes, rarely achieve the long-term success they desire.

• How Leaders Drive Workforce Performance

• Right Management research examined the relationship between leadership and employee engagement, identifying key drivers and behaviors impacting the leader’s ability to engage employees in their roles. Learn best practices for bringing emerging, developing and strategic leaders to the peak of their potential to drive high workforce performance.

• Advancing Careers, Driving Results

• A recent Right Management study shows a strong correlation between engagement and career development, impacting key business metrics such as productivity, performance, employee engagement and retention. Career development not only builds skills and capabilities that can help organizations achieve their strategic goals, but also addresses the motivators driving employees to put their skills and capabilities to optimal use.

• Organizational Effectiveness: Discovering How to Make It Happen
• Organizational effectiveness is critical to success in any economy. In order to achieve increased and sustainable business results, organizations need to execute strategy and engage employees. However, our research indicates that most organizations are struggling to get it right.
• Severance Practices Around the World
• Understanding how severance practices vary by country is a critical component of an effective global workforce strategy. While legal and cultural differences across borders are important to embrace, an organization’s severance practices can also be used as a differentiator in the tough war for talent and should be directly aligned with the company’s business strategy and brand value.
• Employee Engagement - Maximizing Organizational Performance
• Significant shifts in the global economy have accelerated the need for organizations to find innovative ways to address new technological, demographic and marketplace realities – while also forcing companies to re-evaluate their talent strategies. Creating a highly engaged workforce becomes increasingly important as organizations struggle to do more with less while at the same time, boost productivity and performance levels.
• Redeployment: Connecting Talent to Organizational Workforce Needs
• More organizations are employing an innovative, strategic approach to workforce management - seeing an opportunity to redeploy talent to new roles within the company. This approach helps organizations to better align business and talent needs, while improving turnover, engagement and profitability.
• Leader Coaching: A New Model to Accelerate Performance
• A next generation approach to Leader Coaching integrates coaching with organizational context and strategy, allowing leaders to develop broad capabilities relevant to realizing the organization's strategic objectives. Our coaching model ensures that the leader's interpersonal, leadership and strategic skills are aligned with the organization's desired leadership brand.
• Ready, Get Set…Change!
• Economic change is driving an increasing need for organizations to adapt quickly and adeptly to dynamic market conditions. Right Management research examined the relationship between effective change management and engagement, revealing key drivers and behaviors impacting success.