2010 Articles
2009 Articles
December Edition: All present, but not necessarily correct
Staff who insist on struggling into work despite being ill are doing themselves and their organisation more harm than good, say Nick Hayter and Matt Smeed, who argue that employers should do more to tackle the trend of presenteeism.
May Edition: We’re committed – but to what?
Setting goals can be a useful way of motivating staff to improve performance. But, warns Gordon Tinline, managers must make sure they set the right sort of goals to aim at.
April Edition: New technology – friend or foe?
New technology can be a boon to busy staff – but only if the correct training and development processes are put in place.Jill Flint-Taylor warns that without careful planning and monitoring, technology can cause more problems than it solves.
March Edition: Managing positively in a downturn
Professor Ivan Robertson looks at how managers should respond to the concerns of their employees at a time of economic recession and how those fears can be converted to achieve a positive outcome.
February Edition: Presence is not performance
With redundancies hitting the headlines it is tempting for employees to feel they should make themselves indispensable by working extra hours. But a longer working week is not necessarily a more productive one, says Ben Moss.