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This category is People Management, exploring strategies for leadership, employee engagement, and organizational development. It features expert insights on talent management, workplace culture, and best practices for building high-performing teams in a dynamic business environment.

UAE vs UK: Why Are Employee Attitudes To Workplace Technology So Different?

HRMS is a type of human resources (HR) software that consolidates various systems and cycles to guarantee the simple management of human resources, business...

Why You Should Get Personalised Clipboards with Jumbo Traditional Clips for your Business

Personalised clipboards could be the next big thing for your company- and we’re here to tell you why. Personalised stationery has been on the rise...

Feeling and Affect in the Contemporary Workplace

Rick Iedema & David Grant Ongoing organisational change and rapid product and service turnover are demanding increasing levels of employee commitment to innovating work...
Why Leaders Should Encourage Employees to Rebel

Why Leaders Should Encourage Employees to Rebel

By Francesca Gino Organisations see lacklustre results when workers feel bored and constrained. By encouraging employees to rebel against convention and bring their best selves...

Policy changes in universal credit and budgeting advance due to coronavirus

Recent coronavirus epidemic has totally changed our normal lifestyle and days are getting harder for the citizens of UK. As most of the sources...
Business people shaking hands after meeting

Breaking Barriers: How Interracial Partnerships Redefine Business Success 

By Anthon Garcia  Diversity has many faces — gender, socioeconomic, racial, and cultural, among others. In industries like health, tech, and finance, female entrepreneurs from different...

Organizational health: The ultimate competitive advantage

By Scott Keller and Colin Price To sustain high performance, organizations must build the capacity to learn and keep changing over time. The case for health...
Team-conflict

Navigating Tricky Conflict Resolutions: How To Stop a Chris Rock vs. Will Smith From...

Last Sunday’s night Oscar altercation is worth more than 10 Teen Choice Awards. ICYMI: In what can only be described as a surreal public cross...

Unpacking the ‘Big Data’ Skill Set: It’s not Just – or Even Mostly –...

By Mihnea Moldoveanu Big Data presents challenges and opportunities that need a new set of skills. Current formulations of the Big Data skill set are...

How to Find Talented Employees for Your Growing Business

The more ideas you have for your business, the more stringent is the need to have skilled and trustworthy people around you. Talented employees...
Leadership

Richard Glen Allison Explores How Ethical Leadership Shapes Corporate Reputation

In today's business world, companies and organizations are not only judged by how much profit they make or how successful they are in their...
Remote Working

Employee Benefits that are a Game-Changer in 2021

After the beginning of the pandemic, the business climate in the world changed, leaving employees in a better position to negotiate their work environment...

The Importance of Your Business’s Training and Development Program

Training and development in business are often relegated to new hires and college students. However, this should not be the case. Continuous training can...
employee loyalty

4 Ways to Increase Employee Loyalty in 2021

Retaining your top talent throughout the years will not only decrease your company’s turnover fees, but it could increase productivity and profitability. However, many...

5 Open Source HR Tools You Should Try

Your small- to mid-sized business has finally grown to the point where different departments are starting to require their own specialized software solutions. And...
Compassionate Workplaces

Fostering Success: The Power of Compassionate Workplaces

Interview with Dr Bruno Roque Cignacco  Bruno Cignacco, author of The Art of Compassionate Business, delves into the transformative power of nurturing a supportive and caring...
Actions, Not Words Yes, Working Parents Can Succeed

Actions, Not Words Yes, Working Parents Can Succeed – And You Can Help Them...

By Daisy Dowling Organisations of all sizes and types struggle with the “working parent problem”: how to retain, and foster best performance amongst the significant...
Creating Sustainable Business

Tolerating Failure: A Key to Creating Sustainable Business

By CB Bhattacharya, Ernesto Ciorra and Joanna Radeke Best-in-class companies galvanise their workforces to serve a larger purpose – creating a better world. They empower...
Daversa

Refining the Search for Executive Talent in Europe

Interview with Daversa Partners’ Wendy Colvano - Director & Head of Europe With investors looking towards Europe as a hotspot for business acceleration, the need...

Getting a Job In 2025

By Lynda Gratton Lynda Gratton’s new research identifies the careers and skills likely to be valued in the next decade. Even with my own three decades...
Structure

How Can You Spot a Potential Leader in Your Staff?

As a business owner, one of the most important attributes you can find within your staff is leadership. Being able to find someone in...
Digital Upskilling

Digital Upskilling, Gender Equality, and Leadership in Tech-Driven Organizations

By David De Cremer Renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell (2007) is often quoted saying “Everything rises and falls on leadership.” This quote underscores the...
talent

Top 8 EOR Providers for Hiring Global Talent

Due to globalization and increasing network connectivity, companies have more scope to expand than ever before. However, extending your employment strategy overseas is challenging. Branching...

Unlocking Leaders’ Potential

CareSource, one of the largest public sector managed care companies in the United States partners with ICF (International Coaching Federation) to deliver Leadership Transition...

Advances in tech increases demand for multi-skilled employees

The relentless onward strides of tech development are allowing forward-looking companies to steal a march on rivals and competitors. The way that the public...

Select out: Why selection often goes wrong and what to do about it

By Adrian Furnham The process of selecting people, in business as in social relationships, tends to focus on the “good” characteristics we are looking for....
The Overconfident Leader

Arrogance, Hubris, and Narcissism: The Overconfident Leader

By Adrian Furnham There is Freudian psychological and psychiatric business literature on narcissism. We are now used to discussing our politicians as well as business...
employee stress management

Reducing Employee Stress by Using a Work Time Tracker

It’s possible to reduce employee stress by using employee time clock software at work? We know, it sounds impossible. You would think that employees...
Putting Humans First

Doing it Right by Putting Humans First: Interview with Paul Evans

Paul Evans and his friends founded software specialists Mindera with the emphasis on thinking of everyone else – clients, employees, and society – first....
How AI-Based Employee Monitoring Shapes Workplace Trust, Autonomy, and Well-being

Algorithmic Attachment: How AI-Based Employee Monitoring Shapes Workplace Trust, Autonomy, and Well-being

By Dr Madeleine Roantree and Professor Adrian Furnham Although AI-driven monitoring and performance tools are designed to optimise productivity, they may have an adverse effect...
Compliance Strategy

Why Forgiveness Should Be Part Of Your Compliance Strategy

By David de Cremer Compliance strategies are integral in creating a trustworthy, high performing and innovative work culture. As such, it is imperative for companies...

A Voyage Into Premature Aging: The Role of Chronic Stress and its Principal Correlates

By Prof. Simon L. Dolan and Prof. Mario Raich Introduction  The idea of stress and aging was born many years ago while one of the co-authors of...
Business woman in airport with face mask checking phone

Moving to Europe for a Job During the COVID 19 Pandemic

When the pandemic started, many changes were taking place, with the most significant one that affected companies and businesses being travel. For the most...

Counterwork Behaviours

By Adrian Furnham Counterwork behaviours – CWBs – include fraud, misconduct, and work avoidance cost organisations billions every year. In this article, Professor Furnham discusses...
putin tyrant

Tyrant Leadership: Putin and the Psychology of Power

By John Taylor and Adrian Furnham Vladimir Putin appears to be firmly in control of his country, able to bend it to his will and...
hiring platforms

Future of Hiring Platforms: When Online Shopping Meets Dating Platforms

You blink, and something new is on the market, yet again! Times are changing so fast, it’s become very hard to keep up. All...

When to train and not to train your employees?

By Rohit Chandiramani According to the 2017 Training Industry Report, companies in the USA have spent over $90 billion on employee training and development, and...

Speaking Truth to Power

By Megan Reitz and John Higgins The need for transparency has never been more important, both in politics and in business. However, new research from...
Burnout woman working at the office

The Role of Leadership in Combating Burnout: How Effective Talent Management Starts at the...

By Indiana Lee Businesses might set a tireless pace, but employees and leadership alike risk burnout by trying to match it without considering the essential...
Remote Work

A Guide to Remote Working for SMBs

By Grace Lau Working remotely has both pros and cons and is a fast-growing trend. On the one hand, it’s an opportunity to avoid the...
Assessment

People Assessment in the Digital Age

By Adrian Furnham How have technical, social, economic and legal forces influenced the business of people assessment? New technologies used in assessment include smartphone and...

The Five Fundamentals of Effective Performance Management

By David G. Collings and John McMackin In this article the authors present the five issues that any organisation must tackle in order to design...
Large group of intercultural colleagues, neurodiverse discussing online financial data and papers while standing by workplace in urban office

We’ve Made Space for Neurodivergence – But the Mission Is Far from Over

By Marcus Orme In this article, Marcus Orme, CEO and Co-Founder of the UK's leading independent media agency, Medialab reflects on how far we’ve come...
Business Recruitment Strategy Plan

This Is How You Can Create A Successful Business Recruitment Strategy Plan

By Owen Jones A recruitment strategy plan is a process of identifying and hiring the best-qualified individual for a job position. In practice, it is...
HR manager skills

The Best HR Managers Should have these Skills

The world of human resources is constantly changing, in line with wider trends in the labour market. So, whilst more Brits are in employment...
Freelancers working using computer

Why 996, 5-Day, and 4-Day Workweeks Impact Freelancers and Full-Timers Differently

By Pavel Shynkarenko Rigid work models like China’s 996 or the standard 5-day week no longer fit today’s blended workforce. Freelancers and full-timers work on...
Heartbleed

Bury My Heart at Conference Room B

By Stan Slap Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed...

The Global Talent Management Challenge

By David G. Collings David G. Collings outlines key factors which can effectively develop global talent management systems to drive sustainable performance based on his...
passive agressive

The Passive-Aggressive Individual 

By Adrian Furnham You must have met a few or maybe you are working with one right now. Who are passive-aggressive individuals and what makes...
Business people celebrating happiness and success

The Business Case for Happiness: Five Expert Tips for Creating Thriving Workplaces 

By George Kohlrieser, Andrew Kohlrieser, Lord Mark Price, Zoe Sinclair, Michael Wade, Amit Joshi and Tim Duggan In an era where employee wellbeing fuels business...

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