In this week's podcast Wayne speaks to Jonathan Austin of Best Companies about how organisations can measure and improve their levels of workplace engagement.

What does the year ahead hold for managers? That's the question Wayne explores in the Working Week this week as he talks to Jo Causon from the UK-based Chartered Management Institute.

This week, Wayne talks to roving Australian author, coach and educator, Bob Selden, about employee engagement and why smart employers realise that loyalty is a two-way street.

Wayne talks to Paolo Moscuzza, an occupational psychologist with UK-based ER Consultants, about the practical steps that organisations can take to ensure that candidates chose them rather than someone else.

Why do so many business leaders find it difficult to hand over the baton to their successor? That's the issue best-selling author and renowned executive coach, Marshall Goldsmith, explores as he joins Wayne Turmel for the first Working Week of 2008.

Bob Burg,co-author of new book, The Go-Giver, explains to Wayne how generosity of spirit and giving more than you get can produce some very positive business results.

Why so we let so many managers get away with violating the basics of human decency and still be in their jobs? That's just one of the questions Wayne chews over with his guest this week, author Jim Kouzes.

Wayne talks to Dr Myra White, who teaches organizational behavior at Harvard University, about stress and burnout, problems which Myra argues are closely linked to our growing reliance on computers and communications technology.

Charles Helliwell joins Wayne on this week's Working Week for a lively discussion about initiative overload and project paralysis.

This week's Working Week focuses on the issue of staff retention as Wayne talks to leadership development expert, Kevin Eikenberry.

As we all know, women think differently to men. That's the starting point for this week's Working Week, in which Wayne talks to Michelle Brailsford about the rise of female thinking in the workplace and how women can better play the corporate game.

If the burden of electronic communication sometimes becomes just too much, you need to listen to the Working Week. Because this week, Wayne talks to Dr Monica Seeley, co-author of 'Managing in the Email Office' and an expert on email best practice.

Wayne talks to Dawna Jones, whose Podcast series, the Evolutionary Provocateur, has just been launched on Management-Issues. They discuss the "disengagement gap" and why efforts to improve employee performance often end up in failure.

This week, Wayne is joined by Geoff Moore, Professor of Business Ethics at Durham Business School in the UK, for a wide-ranging discussion about business sustainability, social responsibility and how business schools are responding to these issues.

This week, Wayne talks about benefits of employee ownership with J. Robert Beyster, founder of one of the largest and most successful employee-owned companies in the world.

Wayne's guest this week is workplace wellness and exercise guru, Jon Denoris. Jon is the founder of MyOnlineTrainer.com and the Catalyst Health & Fitness system, which operates four fitness studios in central London.

This week, Wayne is joined by his old friend Vince Thompson, author of "Ignited", to discuss the very real difference between leadership and management - and why the current fad for leadership training is selling managers short.

In this week's Working Week, Wayne talks to Steve Huxham, chairman of the Recruitment Society in the UK, to discuss how employers are losing the war for talent.

In this week's Working Week, Wayne talks to Cali Williams Yost, founder of Work+Life Fit, Inc, a company dedicated to helping busy individuals manage the way work fits into their lives.

Wayne's guest on The Working Week this week is management author, blogger, podcaster and consultant, Lisa Haneberg.

This week, Wayne is joined by writer and management journalist, Phil Whiteley, co-author of a new book, "How to Manage in a Flat World", to discuss just how managers can communicate and motivate in today's flattened company.

On The Working Week this week, Wayne is joined by author, screen writer and creativity guru Jurgen Wolff, who is editor and publisher of the creativity e-bulletin, Brainstorm and author of a monthly column for Management-Issues.

This week, Wayne is joined by writer, speaker and management consultant, Laurence Haughton, to talk about Robert Nardelli, Chrysler - and why Americans are so reluctant to say what they really mean.

In this week's meander around the world of work, Wayne talks to employee engagement guru, Andy Parsley. They discuss whether we're at the dawn of an era in which competitive advantage will be driven by people, rather than process or information – and what this means for dinosaur management.

This week's guest is David Tinker of Wellness company, Feeling Alive, an organisation that sets out to promote greater health and wellbeing in the working population.

This week Wayne discuses how environmental issues affect business with John Blackwell of JB Associates, a regular commentator for Management-Issues on workplace effectiveness - how people, space and technology interact.

Wayne's guest this weeks on the Working Week is Andy Hanselman, business competitiveness specialist, blogger and passionate advocate of maximising customer relationships.

Wayne is joined this week by renowned management guru and author, Robert Heller, for a refreshing look at CEO culture, CEO pay and the corrosive effects of the cult of the "celeb CEO".

This week, Wayne is joined from India by author Chetan Dhruve to discuss his theory that workplaces are unwittingly designed to produce fear - that all bosses are, by definition, programmed to be dictators.

This week, Wayne is joined by executive coach and Management-Issues columnist, Charles Helliwell, to discuss the vexed question of whether regulation or certification of coaches is either necessary or desirable.

This week, Wayne is joined by Nicola Hunt, CEO of workplace public relations firm, NHPR, which specialises in employer brand and workplace communications issues.

This week, Wayne is joined by one of the mainstays of Management-Issues roster of columnists, Patricia Soldati, to discuss why women are still so poorly represented at senior levels in the workplace.

This week, Wayne chews the cud with Dan Bobinski, CEO and director of the Center for Workplace Excellence and Management-Issues' longest-serving columnist.

This week, Wayne gets to grips with the hottest topic of all - employee engagement - in the company of Jonathan Austin, CEO of UK-based workplace engagement specialists, Best Companies.

This week, Wayne chews over the news with Deirdre Kenny, Managing Partner (London) of CTPartners, previously Christian & Timbers, one of the world's top-ten global executive search firms.

In this week's Working Week, Wayne Turmel is joined from the UK by Sue Cheshire of North and Beyond, an organisation that works with business leaders to help them develop their potential to the full.

This week, Wayne Turmel is joined for his review of the stories and ideas that emerged during the working week by Peter S. Pande, author of "The Six Sigma Leader".