By Bill George, Peter Sims, Andrew N. McLean, Diana Mayer - hbr.org During the past 50 years, leadership scholars have conducted more than 1,000 studies in an attempt to determine the definitive styles, characteristics, or personality traits of great leaders. None of these studies has produced...
By Katie Jacobs - hrmagazine.co.uk One of the world's biggest employee-owned companies, Golder Associates, excels at putting people before profit. 'No one ever washes a rental car.' It’s a popular trope that perfectly encapsulates the responsibility and care that comes with ownership. But it has perhaps never...
High-performing knowledge workers often question whether managers actually contribute much, especially in a technical environment. Until recently, that was the case at Google, a company filled with self-starters who viewed management as more destructive than beneficial and as a distraction from “real work.” But when...
By Sarah Megginson - hcamag.com Senior HR practitioners agree that CEO acceptance of the HR role is crucial for the function’s success at a strategic level – yet many are not getting the support they need. In HRD’s Global HR survey of 4,400 industry...
By Jonathan Nicholls, Simon Hayward - hrmagazine.co.uk Ram Charan has caused controversy recently with his suggestion that HR departments should be split. The leading business guru and author claimed that CEOs across the globe are disappointed in their HR people. There has been a backlash, of course....
By Prithvi Shergill - hrmagazine.co.uk Gen Y is increasingly becoming a bigger part of our workforce and dynamics have fundamentally changed, with a demand for faster, more innovative and flexible experience and service delivery mechanisms. Fortune magazine deemed Generation Y as the most high-maintenance, yet potentially most...
Workforce 2020 By Mike Ettling - diginomica.com Today’s workplace is the most diverse work environment the world has ever seen. It’s the most multi-generational, with up to five different generations working together – each with different skills, experiences, work habits and motivations. More of our workers are...