You can find them almost everywhere. Myers-Briggs, Enneagrams, leadership styles, learning styles, communication styles, teaching styles, conflict management styles…all designed to classify or label people so they can better understand themselves and others. More and more training vendors are using style questionnaires as a basis for training and development. The question is: are they really [...]
The Receptiveness Hypothesis is applicable at a number of levels. For example, it applies to organizations in general, and the ability of the organization to respond to the needs of customers, staff and other stakeholders (e.g. politicians, etc). It applies to non-supervisory staff, and their ability to respond to the needs of their managers, customers [...]
When launching a new initiative, such as Lean, employee buy-in is critical. Many employees will not put much stock in a new strategy until they see that:
1) It works!
2) It makes their jobs easier, not harder!
It is management’s responsibility to prove that a change in strategy will work. How can this be accomplished? Easy, Cheat!
These [...]
Companies often make the mistake of thinking the best programmer will be the best manager of programmers. This is rarely the case, as programming and managing are different skills.
The problem is, as you know, that it’s super obvious that the best programmer is the best. Your “soft” skills are less quantifiable. You do [...]
KBR (Kellogg, Brown and Root) is a Texas-based global corporation. It employs over 57,000 people worldwide and is a leading engineering, construction and services company. It supports the energy, hydrocarbon, government services and civil infrastructure sectors. KBR’s business is based on project management activities.
The core values of the business are a central part of the [...]
The Forestry Commission is a government department, making it a public sector organisation. Its mission is ‘to protect and expand Britain’s forests and woodlands and increase their value to society and the environment’. It is Britain’s largest land manager and is responsible for some of the UK’s most spectacular landscapes. Over the last 20 years [...]
UNISON is Britain and Europe’s biggest public sector trade union, representing more than 1.3 million members working in public services.
UNISON campaigns on a variety of issues relevant to its members. Currently, it is running the Migrant Workers Participation Project. This campaign focuses on the issues faced by migrant workers in the UK. Migrant workers are [...]
Executives have a unique opportunity to boost the motivation and productivity of their top talent without spending lots of money, with today’s stale job market limiting employees’ mobility. But the fact is that when it comes to managing their emerging leaders or high potentials, many companies are missing the mark, reports Roland Smith of The [...]
Few areas within management control have gained as much attention as incentives and reward systems. However, in the current media discourse, the focus has been on bonuses for management. In the competitive business environment of today, companies need to enter new markets, win new customers, and continuously improve their retention of current customers, in order [...]
question is if there can be a shift from minimumwages to living wages in Bangladesh. In order to bring clarity to the question, three subquestions have been used. The first question looks into how wages are determined in theexport-oriented garment industry in Bangladesh. The second question concerns thecorporations’ responsibility for their workers. The third, and [...]