Posts Tagged ‘corporate culture’
How business schools can help employers to effectively manage an ageing workforce
The idea of a ‘Midlife Review’ is gaining traction to open up conversations and plan ahead. It provides a holistic review, considering everything that may impact a person’s work in the medium to long term.
Read MoreEight pillars of employee engagement and evolutionary change
Vlatka Ariaana Hlupic outlines the eight pillars of humane leadership, employee engagement, and evolutionary change that are taking place in businesses right now, right across the world.
Read MoreDeveloping a whole-person coaching culture at Bettys & Taylors Group: A business perspective
Bettys & Taylors share learning from developing an internally run and resourced coaching scheme, supporting their commitment to a culture of distributed leadership and whole-person learning.
Read MoreWorking with influence: Nine (sometimes surprising) principles for persuading others at work
Amanda Nimon-Peters outlines her multi-disciplined approach to increasing personal influence in real and virtual workplace environments.
Read MoreAre we really never going back to the old ways of working?
Peter Thomson and Mark Thomas revisit the assumptions they made a year ago about the impact of the pandemic.
Read MoreCross-cultural leadership in times of crisis
It’s not what leaders say that matters, it’s what they do. How they behave in a crisis is a better indication of their personal values and beliefs than any corporate policy or mission statement.
Read MoreToxic workplaces and the rise of the toxic humans
While the true picture behind “The Great Resignation” is a multi-faceted one, the common thread is the manifestation and impact of a toxic culture.
Read MoreWill traditional hierarchical relationships change in the digital age?
Katherine Xin investigates the rise of platform organisations and their impact on workplaces.
Read MoreLeading transformation: Shaping the automotive transformation amidst turbulent times
It was early 2020. The global automotive industry was in the middle of the biggest transformation in its history – exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreCreating a transformative leadership culture
Established in 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an independent, neutral organisation operating worldwide, helping people affected by conflict and armed violence and promoting the laws that protect victims of war.
Read MoreHow technology is challenging traditional leadership
Technology should be taking the routine work away from individuals, releasing them to use their creative human skills, which cannot easily be replaced by a machine.
Read MoreEnsuring employee engagement amid a pandemic
Jawad Syed explains how organisations can ensure the involvement of their employees during a crisis and suggests 15 steps to enable or sustain employee engagement.
Read MoreThe productive leader: A new approach for the digital age
We need to create productive organisations by genuinely empowering employees and allowing them the freedom to choose how they work.
Read MoreThree is the magic number
Kirsty Bashforth examines the three aspects, strategic, social, and political, that need to be included in helping to change or maintain the desired culture within an organisation.
Read MoreEl entretejido de la internacionalización y la relevancia corporativa
Alemania, los Estados Unidos, Singapur, Brasil pueden sonar como un emocionante viaje por el mundo, pero también son lugares donde los estudiantes afortunados son estudiantes universitarios del IBEA.
Read MoreInterweaving internationalisation and corporate relevance
Germany, the US, Singapore, Brazil may sound like an exciting world trip but they are also places where lucky students are IBEA undergraduates.
Read MoreBeyond misogyny: Our pathologically mean leaders
The #MeToo movement has unleashed a maelstrom of reports of inappropriate sexual behaviour. But, says Mark Lipton, what he calls the “Mean Men” syndrome has been responsible for equal, and sometimes even worse, wrongdoings.
Read MoreLeadership 2020 live: A massive, open, online conversation for Daimler
Daimler – the inventor of the automobile – embarked on a journey to lead the reinvention of mobility once more.
Read MoreSeven things to learn about succession in organisations
Emerson de Almeida and co-authors report on a four-year research study on planning and executing a successful successions policy.
Read MoreCreating value: Value co-creation and value destruction
A greater understanding of value, together with today’s big data analytics, gives companies the potential to put value creation at the core of their business.
Read MoreTime for a digital detox?
Peter Thomson points out that our stressful work patterns are not caused by technology but by leaders who have allowed their organisations to develop unhealthy work patterns and are ignoring culture instead of managing it.
Read MoreA conversation with Nick Lovegrove
David Grayson talks to Nick Lovegrove, the author of The Mosaic Principle and a key speaker at EFMD’s Conference for Deans & Directors General, Munich, January 2018.
Read MoreCollaboration that brings strategy to life: Learning rebranded at BBVA
Andrew Rutsch chronicles how Spanish bank BBVA is using its learning centre, Campus BBVA, not only to facilitate development but also to engage people with the company brand, values and strategy.
Read MoreSoft skills in the business and personal world
George Pennington provides a psychologist’s perspective on why training in soft skills is vital for business (and personal) life.
Read MoreCoping with complexity
Personal resilience is an increasingly necessary tool to face the stress of a complex work environment. Fiona Dent and Viki Holton describe what it is and how to attain it.
Read MoreNo pyramids in China
Cheng Siwei, one of China’s leading management education scholars, says that the country’s economic future depends on a flexible, empowered workforce without organisational pyramids.
Read MoreThe business of cultural intelligence
Eel soup, floor numbers, and compensation packages are just some of the disasters that lack of cultural intelligence can bring about. Ravi Kumar offers some solutions.
Read MoreAn engaging place to work
This special Global Focus supplement spotlights the growing importance of employee engagement. Siegfried Hoenle and Simon Stoepfgeshoff analyse the key issues involved.
Read MoreWhy should anyone work here?
The issue of employee engagement – broadly conceived – has been the focus of attention for many of those whose major concern is management and leadership development.
Read MoreNew ways to run engagement surveys
Andrew Marritt describes the growing use of innovative technology to measure employee engagement.
Read More