President Donald Trump reacts before speaking at a recent rally in Arizona. Trump, a politician who came from the business world, is facing intense criticism about his leadership abilities.
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Is it time to put a moratorium on the meaningless word ‘leadership?’ In the business world, leadership now often simply means performing mundane managerial duties.
Part-time roles become difficult if that employee is the only source of knowledge, contact or sign-off.
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Businesses are not considering that roles need to be redesigned to be part-time and this causes problems in managing employees’ workloads and interacting with other employees.
In the seventeenth century lawyers, civil servants and other new professionals began to work from offices in Amsterdam, London and Paris.
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Agustin Chevez, Swinburne University of Technology and DJ Huppatz, Swinburne University of Technology
The history of the office illustrates not only how our work has changed but also how work’s physical spaces respond to cultural, technological and social forces.
Most coworking spaces target small-business workers who tend to be in professional services and technical or knowledge-based work.
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By responding to passenger violence by training staff, airline management fail to address fundamental issues with their low cost profit model.
Co-working can be a refreshing change for many employees where the design of the workplace and the politics of their organisation means they are simply too tired.
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New research finds there are significant risks and uncertainties in the complexities of national and international tax systems as applied to internationally mobile employees.
Cultural differences between Eastern and Western employees in the workplace are a factor in the loss of company performance.
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If you think the hours you work are all converted directly into dollars, think again. There are a lot of ways employers can manipulate your time – some of which are legal, others highly questionable.
Cabinet papers released today have given us some insight into how current issues like the gender superannuation gap emerged.
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Burnout is a growing problem for the modern workplace. It has an impact on organisational costs, as well as employee health and well-being.
Employees who have a mutually loyal relationship with their employers and a balance of positive and negative emotions at work are less likely to quit.
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