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When does your consideration for a subordinate’s or colleague’s feelings, as a trade-off for being honest about their poor performance or behaviour become counter productive? When does tolerance …

AskAsk people questions. There are two goals of asking questions. To find out what people are passionate about and to make sure that they know you care about …

I often write articles critical or at least challenging of management of organisations. But of course, it is not only managers who behave in such a way as …

In the US, it is anticipated that 76 million baby boomers will retire in the next ten years. However, there will be fewer than 50 million workers to …

Boundary setting is something one expects to find in a parenting book or a psychologist’s journal. However, it applies to adult to adult relationships at work as much …

Trust and productivity – the basics When two people trust each other, their relationship is productive. When two organisations have trusting relationships and interactions their relationship is productive. …

The majority of job descriptions are written today for a computer system. Many are written without any purpose at all. Very few are written with the employee and …

Human Resource Management as a profession is in danger of becoming not just an irrelevance to day-to-day line managers but a break on the productivity and profitability of …

Millions of dollars are spent each year in organisations seeking advice on achieving work life balance for its employees. Some of the courses run and the projects commissioned …

A performance appraisal should be the opportunity for a leader in an organisation to set the development opportunities for their employees alight. It should be an invigorating, refreshing …