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 Positives of Micromanaging Processes
By Richard Wright, Head of Marketing, Scoro
Frustrating. Demoralising. Demotivating. Harvard Business Review (HBR) takes a dim view of micromanagement, and it’s not alone. Famous...
How HR Technology Helps Small Business Grow
Technology has played a big role in changing the world of business. This change has been especially incremental in Human Resources (HR), with HR...
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...
5 Reasons Why a Customer Training Program May Be Crucial For Your Organization
While most organizations in 2020 understand the importance of employee training as a crucial company process, many of them have also started tuning into...
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...
What Colour Blindness Shows Me About Diversity
By Ben Fuchs
“To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as...
Support Employees During Challenging Times
By Dr. Bruno Roque Cignacco SFHEA
In relation to change affecting a company, most employees are comfortable with the status quo, and therefore they have...
4 Ways Your Small Business Can Attract Big Talent
Your business will fail without the right employees. Every boss knows this. From market stalls to megacorporations. The most gifted job-searchers can take their...
The Importance of Adopting a Loving Attitude Towards Stakeholders
By Dr. Bruno Roque Cignacco
In the business environment, love is commonly seen as a feeling totally alien to the cultures of most organisations. Some...
Six Business Benefits For Client Entertainment
When you have people over to your home, you will want to make sure you do something fun and memorable, so you are welcoming...
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...
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...
Ways to Improve Retention on Your Team
Employees are the most valuable asset you have at your organization. But if you don't do your part to make them feel appreciated, don't...
How CBD Gummies Can Help You Instill Wellness in Your Company’s Culture
You want your employees to be healthy and happy, so you’re always looking for new ways to improve wellness in your office. You make...
The Rise of the Hospitality Manager
Happy, comfortable and productive employees and the new generation of office managers making it happen
By Fernanda Arreola and Gregory Unruh
New demands are emerging in...
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...
Pay Secrecy
By Adrian Furnham
Even with today’s rapidly progressing society, there still exists a certain stigma towards the topic of salary or compensation. Employees have taken...
The Importance of Background Checks For Your Employees
If you’re looking to hire a new employee, you want to know about their history and if they are who they say they are....
The 3 Myths of Employee Autonomy
By Carsten Lund Pedersen
Employee autonomy is becoming one of the latest trends in business management with many industries failing to implement and benefit from...
Changing the face of finance and professional services
By Lucy Franklin
Stereotyping is not inherently bad, but it is undoubtedly restricting. Most especially in the industry of finance and professional service where such...
Is China A Place For Newly Grads
In 2018, about 8.2 million students graduated from Chinese universities. According to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MHRSS), that number increased...
How To Motivate Your Staff In 2020
When you have an unmotivated workforce, things can start to go wrong in the business. You need to make sure that you are treating...
Managing Mavericks – Getting The Best Out Of Eccentric Employees
Employees are not robots. They might be twenty years from now, but they're not right now. Everyone who works for you is a living,...
What to do when you’re Feeling Anxious
According to a report, 40 million Americans are living with an anxiety disorder. They feel anxious all the time. They also experience anxiety attacks, fear of talking...
Current Development in Psychometric Tests
By Adrian Furnham
Finding the right person who is well suited for a job position is vital in any organisation’s success. There are numbers of...
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...
How to Manage Employee Scheduling in Small Businesses in 2020
If there’s one thing managers have to do better than anyone is schedule staff effectively and efficiently, otherwise, no work would ever get done....
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...
How to Negotiate Effectively with Multiple Parties?
By Guido Stein and Kandarp Mehta
Soft skills, like negotiating, have become increasingly important in creating personal relationships and fostering opportunities for your business’ long-term...
How to maximize employee retention rates in the job-hopping age
By Stefan Klumpp and Gareth Platt
In a world where 1 in 4 employees quits within 90 days, how do you hang on to your...
The Tech Trends Which are Shaping HR in 2019
As the old saying goes, “you’re only as good as your weakest link”. It’s a phrase which is extremely pertinent to the world of...
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...
Become A Better Boss Today
Being a boss isn't as easy as other people think. You have a lot of responsibilities, and you are the one who keeps it...
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...
A Revolution at the Organisation’s Core: Millennials
By Guido Stein and Miguel MartĂn
How do organisations strategise to create a sound and functional workforce? In this article, the authors present how...
Top 5 benefits of mobile learning for corporations
By Ehsan Memari
Let’s face it: if you’re looking for a powerful way to promote learning in the workplace, you just can’t ignore mobile. After...
Open-space Ethics for Co-workers
Open-space offices are fast becoming the norm. For businesses and workers, they offer many advantages: easier communication for collaboration, lower costs, and greater transparency...
Do you need to be happy to be a Chief Happiness Officer?
Examining the new Happiness at Work initiative at SAP
By Steven MacGregor
“The term is loaded. It doesn’t mean I’m walking around all day telling jokes...
How a motivational speaker can transform your next event
Planning a business event can feel like a daunting prospect, even for established business leaders. This is for good reason: the evening’s legacy can...
Why Workstyle Reform Just Might Work in Japan
By Ginka Toegel
Ikigai– in Japanese it means, loosely, “what makes life worth living.”  If reforms by the Shinzō Abe government succeed, it may one day...
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...
Using Technology To Turn The Dial On Inclusion: The Mental Health Opportunity
By Barbara Harvey
The stigma long associated with mental health challenges is fading. Companies should turn that to their advantage. Technology can help.
 Companies increasingly understand...
Boost Staff Motivation Levels All Year Round
By Aliya Vigor-Robertson
The return to work after the festive period can leave many employees struggling to get motivated. The excitement of Christmas is over,...
Smile, Smile and Be A Leader? Differences in male and female leaders’ use of...
By Vanessa Marcié and Sucheta Nadkarni
While humour can serve as a key to improve work culture and leadership effectiveness, there is a good chance that you are...
Data to the rescue: Investing in (female) employees
By Ineke Ceder and Sumru Erkut
Can companies successfully align attention to their bottom line with the current urgent calls for wider diversity and inclusion?...
The Dark Side of Emotional Contagion
By Alexandra Dobra-Kiel
Investment banks – and the financial services industry at large – continue to bear the reputational scares of some high-profile ethical scandals....
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...
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...
Savvy and Skillful: a new look at office politics
By Adrian Furnham
Until recently the concept of office politics was exclusively associated with dirty tricks and Machiavellian manipulation. But recently psychologists using the concept...