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...
Have You Ever Met a Psychopath? The Anatomy of the Corporate Psychopath
By Adrian Furnham
When we think of psychopaths, we think of blood-thirsty crazed killers who spend their lives in chains at maximum security prisons after...
Soft Leadership for Millennials
By M.S. Rao
The purpose of this article is to explore soft leadership to meet the rising expectations of the millennials globally. It unfolds the...
Extrapreneurs: A More Sensible Form of Entrepreneurship?
By Maurits van Rooijen
Being an entrepreneur is exciting with greater control over one’s destiny and a more direct link between work and rewards. But...
Headhunting At Your Competition – 5 Ways To Draw Talent To Your Company
By Peter Bray
Knowing how to draw top talent to your company is a vital recruiting skill, but it becomes a sensitive issue when you...
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...
Fresh Graduate in 2022? 5 Ways to Brush Up Your Resume
Sometimes it’s not a question of what you’re doing wrong, but what you could do better.
Introduction
So you’ve finally graduated and got the first draft...
Synergy or Conflict? Lessons for managers on how to successfully adopt AI to augment...
By Jakob Stollberger and David De Cremer
Artificial intelligence undeniably offers the potential to improve decision-making, at least in certain contexts. In this article, AI experts Jakob Stollberger...
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...
What Really Matters to Gen Z? Workplace Tech or the Team Around them?
By Tony Bailey
As students get their A-level results and graduate from university this summer, a new tranche of young people will enter the workforce....
AIM for a Thriving Planet
By Chris Nichols, Philippa Hardman, Michael Chaskalson and Helen Sieroda
The first article in this series introduced Team Mindfulness using the AIM model and explored...
What’s Involved in a Pre-Employment Testing
Pre-employment testing is an assessment used by employers to identify candidates who have the skills and qualities needed for a specific job. There are...
The Interconnection Between Motivation, Emotion, and Group Dynamics
By Dr. Monika Klein and Dr. Anna Rostomyan
Monika Klein and Anna Rostomyan consider the intricate relationship between motivation, emotion, and group dynamics within creative...
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...
996 is Not a Competitive Advantage – Why it Stifles Innovation
By Barbara Salopek
Silicon Valley’s 996 work culture is often framed as commitment, but it undermines innovation. Drawing on experience and research, Barbara Salopek explores...
The Great Resignation
By Adrian Furnham
Many believe that the young generation is not interested in working, with some calling them the Lazy Generation. The concept of the...
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...
2 Top Tips for Managing New Employees
If you want your business to constantly evolve and grow, you need to hire new employees on a regular basis. Fresh faces will bring...
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...
Three Traps Facing New Corporate Centre Executives
What Companies Should Consider When Hiring for Corporate Role
By Sven Kunisch & Eva Bilhuber Galli
When appointing corporate centre executives, many large firms focus on...
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...
“Reverse Backstabbing”- The Art of Praising People Behind Their Backs
By Avi Liran
Gossip can be hurtful and malicious, leaving behind a bad smell. And while we may not always avoid it, we can choose...
5 Strategies for Working Seamlessly with a Multigenerational Workforce
You often see great age-diversity among employees working in a company or organization. This diverse workforce is also referred to as a multigenerational workforce....
4 Workforce Management Tips To Create An Efficient Work Environment
Just like other aspects of running an organization, efficient workforce management is also crucial for the success of the business. Typically, your employees can...
8 Reasons Why Your Employees Aren’t Completing Tasks on Time
Lack of productivity is undoubtedly an issue that many businesses face at one point in their life. However, it can be challenging to establish...
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...
Creating Abundant Organizations
Interview with Dave and Wendy Ulrich
In “The Why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations” (McGraw-Hill 2010), Dave and Wendy Ulrich set out...
Identity In and Around Organisations
By Majken Schultz & Steve Maguire
At the heart of any successful organisation lies a powerful conception of identity: the coherent way in which it...
Corporate Listening Provides Insights and Business Value
By Jim Macnamara
The voice of customers (VOC) is recognized as vitally important in marketing and corporate communication. VOC is a key source of market...
The Impostor Syndrome: Fraudulence, Fear of Success, and Perfectionism
By Adrian Furnham
Many of us, at one time or another, may have thought, “One day, they’re going to see through me.” If you’re one...
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...
The Trouble With Meritocracy
By Emilio J. Castilla
Meritocracy has recently become an increasingly popular term in corporate communications. But simply calling your organization a meritocracy doesn’t make it...
Aiming to Nourish the More Human Organisation
By Michael Chaskalson, Helen Sieroda, Chris Nichols and Philippa Hardman
The first article in this series examined the importance of Team Mindfulness using the AIM...
How to Set Teams Up for Success
By Gina Battye
Thriving workplace cultures don’t happen by accident. They are designed from the ground up to create the conditions where people can contribute...
Why Culture is the Ultimate Business Symptom and NOT a Root Cause of a...
By Jim Vaselopulos
When we think of medical symptoms, fever, chills, or nausea might come to mind. But what about business symptoms? These “problems”, more...
Building a Positive Organisational Culture Centered Around Employee Wellbeing
By Gill Tanner
Workplaces have changed significantly in recent years, with the introduction of hybrid and remote working and increasing digitisation shifting the way we...
A Lesson In Extreme Negotiation: Negotiating With Kidnappers
By Kandarp Mehta and Guido Stein
This article is a case analysis based on real events. The case analyses how a young British man who...
Strategising to Win On the Global Playing Field: Making Real Strategic Choices in...
By Bart Tkaczyk
Attract the best people. Own shares either in good ships, or in none at all. Make your ship attractive, then good people...
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...
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...
The Dangers of Context Switching to Your Productivity & How to Solve it
By Grace Lau
Even the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once lamented the urge to take on too many tasks at once. How quaint it now seems...
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...
6 Recruitment Tips For Businesses
When it comes down to it, there is no business process that is more important than recruitment. The people you recruit are the ones...
The New Collaboration Challenge: Leading Through Complexity, Uncertainty and Human Connection
By Guy Lubitsh
When businesses face complex problems, we might suppose that a process of collaboration is more likely to deal with them effectively than,...
What You Should Know About the New Corporate Perks
By Alex Schnee
If you have been thinking about how you want to reward your employees with new incentives, then you should have a good...
Strategic Transformation at Tennis Canada
By Roger Martin
Aside from the small percentage of hugely successful game-changing start-ups like Apple, Microsoft and Google it can be hard for a small...
The Great Disengaged: Why Re-Recruiting Your Own People is the Smartest Talent Strategy in...
By Dominic Ashley-Timms and Laura Ashley-Timms
Job hugging’ is on the rise as high retention becomes a red flag and silent productivity killer – but...
Foresight as a Management Tool
By Svyatoslav Biryulin
“The future is already here. It is not evenly distributed yet.”
William Gibson, an American-Canadian fiction writer
The Black Mirror series and some other movies...
Caring for Workers Returning After Injury
A serious injury can have all manner of knock-on effects. It might compromise an individual’s ability to do something as simple as make a...
