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Robert (Bob) Lewis, Director of APT Inc. discusses the role job descriptions play for guiding employee performance and ensuring effective and legally compliant staffing and compensation practices. As jobs increasingly focus on intangible concepts like “service” and “knowledge work”, it can be difficult to capture and define specific job requirements. This ambiguity creates confusion and legal risk within companies. But there are ways to address this through appropriate job analytics methods.

Job descriptions can be a critical tool for ensuring employees are doing what is expected of them and are being treated appropriately. If knowing what your workforce is supposed to be doing is important to you, then you will enjoy hearing Dr. Bob Lewis – this week no People Performance Radio.

Listen to People Performance Radio Episode 60:

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Jennifer Pierce, Vice President of Talent Management and Sandra Murray-Leduc, National Success and Performance Manager for Hudson’s Bay Company discuss talent management challenges and successes they have experienced working in one of the oldest continually operating companies in the world. Jennifer and Sandra discuss how Hudson’s Bay Company leverages its frontline workforce as a source of future leadership talent. They explain how the necessity to save costs led to decentralizing succession management in a way that actually led to larger and better quality pools of high potential leadership candidates.

Learn state of the art succession management ideas from a company with over 300 years of talent management experience by listening to Jennifer Pierce and Sandra Murray-Leduc – this week on People Performance Radio.