Is your Training and Development file seen by management as a luxury item? In one respect, Training and Development is a little like a retirement savings plan: if you fail to make regular contributions, there won’t be enough in the bank to get you to your ultimate destination. If you wake up to this reality [...]
Most of us who have toiled in the corporate world for a while have encountered the micro-manager: he or she is that supervisor who just cannot resist directing your every movement, assigning every task, dictating each minute of your calendar, and constantly peer over your shoulder, in spite of your own capabilities, enthusiasm and maturity. [...]
Workplace stress has become a serious concern in North America, and it is making a lot of us, and our businesses, very sick. The sources of that stress are myriad: it can stem from being harassed, being bullied, being subjected to unrealistic standards, being threatened by job loss or demotion, or being pressured to work [...]
Late in 2011, the Purchasing Management Association of Canada (PMAC) released the results of its annual survey of salaries earned by those employed in the supply chain management field. This is an excellent resource for individuals either working within, or considering entering the profession. It points directly toward the return on investment offered by targeted [...]
Bloomberg Business Week has released its 2012 rankings of the top undergraduate business schools in the USA. For the second year in a row, Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business captured the top spot, followed by University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. Students at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, in South Bend, Ind., [...]
By: John Skelton, Senior Editor Fear takes a terrible toll in the workplace. It has always been with us, but enlightened managers have discovered ways to alleviate the Fear Factor among employees. Unlike in past centuries, employees no longer need to feel as if they are alone to battle their demons. Legislation exists in all [...]
By: John Skelton, Senior Editor Imagine being a senior operations executive in a distribution business where sales are – at best – flat, relative to previous years. Meetings with the sales team get ugly. The Blame Game erupts, and fingers point in every conceivable direction. Rhetoric leads to acrimony. Emotions run amok and morale declines. [...]
But the Devil is in the Details Consulting Group Grant Thornton International has published the results of its global survey of business leaders, and has discovered that the rate of increase of workplace stress levels are dampening, as the world finds stability in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis. However, Grant Thornton’s International Business [...]
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