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Are Women Better Managers Than Men?
There are a lot fewer female managers than male managers but research has shown that women can be as good as men, or even better, in senior management positions. Latest research tells us that not only are women as good as men, most of the time they are better. So what’s holding companies back? There … Continue reading Are Women Better Managers Than Men?
Talent And Motivation Are Critical To The Success Of Your Business
Individuals of great talent can have a significant and disproportionate bottom line impact in jobs that are highly complex… According to McKinsey’s global talent survey. Talent will increase productivity by 800 per cent in jobs that are very highly complex, but by just 125 per cent in high complexity jobs and just 50 per cent … Continue reading Talent And Motivation Are Critical To The Success Of Your Business
The Leadership Styles That Work Best
Leadership is as much a skill as sales, accounting, engineering or programming, but is rarely treated that way by companies making hiring decisions. There is a lot of complicated management theory about management and leadership. There are detailed guides to choosing the correct management style. Should your leaders be Authoritative or Visionary or Transactional or … Continue reading The Leadership Styles That Work Best
Is It Time To Get Rid Of The Open-Plan Office?
Well conducted research is beginning to appear and it does not look good for the open plan office… The open plan office is the badge of the thoroughly modern work space. It’s as much a part of the office of the future as unlimited free snacks and Fussball tables in the common room. But research … Continue reading Is It Time To Get Rid Of The Open-Plan Office?
Do Fringe Benefits Increase Productivity?
Does employee happiness improve productivity and which types of workplace benefits produced the greatest productivity gains? Until we are all replaced by robots, there are very few businesses where employee productivity is irrelevant. It is self-evident that fringe benefits which increase employee happiness and reduce stress are likely to increase productivity. But until now there … Continue reading Do Fringe Benefits Increase Productivity?
Is The Gig Economy Changing The Way We View Work?
The ‘gig economy’ is just a hipster way of describing people who contract their labour rather than being full time employees. But is it changing the workplace? We are constantly told that the ‘gig economy’ is about to destroy the workplace as we know it. We apparently have entered a brave new future where workers … Continue reading Is The Gig Economy Changing The Way We View Work?
Is Artificial Intelligence Destroying Your Job?
Just because a machine can learn from mistakes doesn’t mean it is self-aware and about to deploy robots to destroy humanity throughout time and space. But it does mean that increasingly, machines can take on more and more human work. On 11 February this year, President Trump signed an executive order directing US government agencies … Continue reading Is Artificial Intelligence Destroying Your Job?
How To Cope When You’re Working For Someone Half Your Age
Increasingly employers are looking to fill their ranks with ‘digital natives’, which usually translates to people younger than you. But how do you work for someone half your age? Millennials (Gen Y) and Post-Millennials (Gen Z) now make up 40 per cent of the workforce. So, if you are over 36 years of age you should probably get … Continue reading How To Cope When You’re Working For Someone Half Your Age
Is Employee Turnover Killing Your Profits?
It’s a good idea to get the bottom of why employee turnover happens and how to limit it. Employee turnover costs US businesses more than one Trillion (1,000 Billion) US dollars a year. That represents about 10 per cent of all US corporate profits, so it is nothing to be sneezed at. It is therefore … Continue reading Is Employee Turnover Killing Your Profits?
Why Sexual Harassment Training Doesn’t Work (And What We Can Do About It)
There is no evidence that most anti-sexual harassment training actually prevents sexual harassment so how can workplaces stop it? About half of all working women report being sexual harassed at work at some point during their working lives. This is true whether the statistics come from the UK, the US or Europe. Figures like this … Continue reading Why Sexual Harassment Training Doesn’t Work (And What We Can Do About It)