Benefits of managers spending their time with their employees

July 30, 2008 1 comment

“Employees leave bad managers not bad organisations”
Whether you agree or not I was introduced to the work of Professor Kim Cameron from the Department of Positive Organizational Scholarship at the University of Michigan and wanted to share it with you.
Prof Cameron has devised something called the Personal Management Interview Programme. She believes that employee engagement [...]

How to be the perfect employee

July 9, 2008 No comments yet

According to this video - which I so hope was tongue in cheek – the perfect employee

doesn’t answer back
doesn’t take time away from their desk ( bar..)go to the loo
doesn’t get paid ( maybe a one off transfer fee)!!!
does as it is programmed to do – without deviation

OK . OK – this was  a great marketing ruse for [...]

The benefits of losing good people from your organisation

April 4, 2008 2 comments

I received and invitation to an alumni event from a previous employer in the mail yesterday. My husband attended a similar event some time ago. There seems to be a growth in alumni type events  so I was interested to read this article in the Harvard Business Review . As I understand it the research [...]

Keeping your questions ( and your mind) open

February 8, 2008 No comments yet

Discussing workplace issues around absence management a group of HR Managers took part in role play. Our task was to act as either the employee ( with issues) who had been turning up late for work or the HR Manager who had the job of finding out what was going on!
In preparation the presenter did an excellent [...]


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