Workplace teams are meant to pool the individual abilities of employees to tackle challenges, but often end up simply comprising a supervisor trying to get a silent team to produce, according to management consultant and author Stewart Liff.
When a Victorian utility company announced it had discovered an $80 million budget shortfall, staff knew they were in for a bumpy ride. What they didn't expect was to become more committed to the organisation during the cost-cutting exercise.
The majority of hiring managers believe their teams are being led with shared accountability, but the teams themselves feel the opposite is true, new research shows.
Australians are working harder than ever to keep their organisations going through tough times, often doing unrecognised and unrewarded work, but the resulting presenteeism might be doing more damage than good, according to leadership expert Andrew Henderson.
Changing the culture of an organisation is a long and tough exercise, and most of the time it fails. A critical mistake is to mimic the practices of leading organisations without going through the process that got them there, new research suggests.
In the face of unprecedented change, rising disengagement and inflated employee expectations, employers need to build brands that "cut through the clutter" to engage people, according to marketing expert Dan Gregory.
Clarity of purpose, the freedom to have robust conversations, and accountability form the DNA of high-performing teams, according to consultancy Proteus Leadership.
Many organisations are still using factory-era techniques to manage motivation, but these old tools fail to inspire and support creativity, collaboration and agility, according to author and motivation expert Dr Jason Fox.
A key role for HR in the coming years will be to persuade managers against "talent hoarding" and convince them that their job is to develop, then let go of, their talented people, says global talent management expert Josh Bersin.
Broad-brush enticements aimed at motivating and engaging workers are creating a culture of whingeing and entitlement, an employee engagement consultant says.
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