Management-Issues : News

Will over-regulation strangle financial services?

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Onerous regulatory regimes such as Sarbanes-Oxley did nothing to prevent the current financial crisis. And more bureaucracy won't prevent problems in future. What we need is a regulatory environment that encourages fast, decentralized control, not a centralized, rules-based approach.

Time to rethink your job

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Is it possible to get staff more engaged and committed just by changing how they think about their work? A new Canadian study has suggested that it is.

How do you feel about your boss?

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT

I write a lot about employees who hate their bosses, but It turns out that someone has actually done an academic study about employees and their feelings toward their bosses.

Really living service

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Marc Silvester and Mohi Ahmed of Fujitsu map talk about a new approach to service which they anticipate as being as powerful in the service world as Toyota's has been in manufacturing.

Smart managers do more deals in a downturn

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Assuming they can keep their nerve, managers should see the slump as an opportunity to pick up a few bargains and do those deals that have always eluded them.

Going wild in New Zealand

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

A recent health conference in New Zealand revealed that methamphetamine is becoming a real problem in Kiwi workplaces.

CFOs dash for cash

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

As the stark reality of the global downturn becomes clear, chief finance officers are fundamentally revising their cash-flow forecasts and desperately looking at ways to raise or hang on to cash.

Doing the unthinkable

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

The Singapore government has done the unthinkable and cut the pay of its senior civil servants and politicians by up to 19 perent in response to the global recession.

Brotherly love?

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Have you ever been to Philadelphia? If you're thinking about going there to work, you may want to think again when you learn that a third of workplace deaths in the city in 2007 were actually homicides.

Job hunting in hard times

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

When times are tough and jobs are scarce, it is important to be strategic in how you look for a job. Flooding the market with your resume is an exercise in futility. Instead, you need to follow the money and know how you can increase an employer's bottom line.

Winning with webmeetings

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

In the current climate, webmeetings ought to save companies a fortune. But all too often, I've seen good companies and smart managers snatch defeat from the jaws of certain victory and waste vast amounts of precious time and dollars in the process.

Are you sitting comfortably?

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

If you're like me, you spend far too much time sitting in front of a screen, ask yourself whether spending 8-10+ hours per day in an uncomfortable chair is really such a good idea.

Help for those who hate their boss

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

If you hate your boss, here's some tips you can master to learn to live with the situation at least long enough to find work elsewhere.

Implementing sustainable change

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Benjamin Franklin wrote that the definition of madness was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting change to happen. But this is exactly how many change programmes - in organisations both large and small - can be described.

Goodbye globe-trotting

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Managers can expect a lot less living out of a suitcase next year as corporate travel costs soar and every cent of expenses get put under the magnifying glass.

Downturn could make glass ceiling even thicker

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Global recession could make it even harder for women to break into the boardroom, even though we might be in less of a mess now if more women had been in charge in the first place.

Downturn could make the glass ceiling even thicker

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Global recession could make it even harder for women to break into the boardroom, even though we might be in less of a mess now if more women had been in charge in the first place.

20 is the magic number

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

What gets rewarded usually gets done. So, when CEOs earn more than 364 times the pay of the average worker, it's only natural they will focus almost exclusively on short term, bottom-line results. There has to be a better way. So what is the appropriate way to pay a CEO?

Managers stick with poor performers rather than hire new faces

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Most managers would prefer to stick with someone they know, even if they are a pain to manage or not pulling their weight, rather than start over and hire a new face.

Why it's good graduates muck about on mobiles

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Graduates in Western economies may seem umbilically attached to their mobiles and social networks, but they risk being overtaken by even more technologically savvy students from emerging economies.

Don't rely on your recession veterans

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Companies risk losing their most recession-experienced executives as the global downturn bites, just at the point when they are crying out for a steady hand on the tiller.

Managers struggle on with poor performers rather than get hiring

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Most managers would prefer to stick with someone they know, even if they are a pain to manage or not pulling their weight, rather than start over and hire a new face.

Will bitter 70-year-olds become a common sight in the office?

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Twenty years from now the workplace could be clogged up with a generation of embittered older workers who cannot afford to retire yet resent being told what to do.

How to prevent your career collapsing with your company

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Walking away before your company crashes around you is the best way to prevent career meltdown - even if it means taking your chances in an uncertain jobs' market.

Developing a "hire me" attitude

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

There is more to getting hired than just having a great resume. Sometimes it's the way you carry yourself or the way you give off confidence to an employer. Your attitude can be as important as what you've done with your career.