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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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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Rather than just catering to one stereotype of worker, people who use coworking spaces actually come from different backgrounds, professions and ages.
Businesses are considering making the change from a formal review to regular feedback.
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Finding the feedback balance is hard. Millennials are seeking more feedback while baby boomers tend to want to get on with the job.
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It’s there … but it changes over time.
Without loyalty, employees don’t go the extra mile that’s needed to make a business competitive.
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Breach of a psychological contract in the workplace can irreparably damage relationships and produce a number of undesirable outcomes.
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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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Co-working spaces are evolving to suits the needs of a changing workforce.
Employees in the study were willing to put their own interests before their employers for money.
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Employees in this study would forgo A$1 million for their employer, to gain as little as A$500 personally.
Businesses are expanding into new markets, so employees increasingly have to move between different geographical locations.
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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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East Asian employees make up a sizeable portion of the workforce but they are often misunderstood as lacking in communication skills.
Knowledge workers hate being micromanaged.
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The number of “knowledge workers” in Australia is rising but they present a unique challenge to managers.
There are reasons to believe the promise of people analytics may not live up to the hype.
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Despite its promises, people analytics has serious ethical implications and can adversely affect organisations and how people are treated at work.
Timekeeping laws still refer to the forgone days of punch cards and time clocks.
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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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The changes to superannuation discussed in the 1992-93 cabinet papers shaped the system we have today for better and worse.
Caltex petrol station franchisees are the latest to be accused of underpaying workers.
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The franchise business model could be undermined by proposed laws which make franchisors and franchisees jointly responsible for wage underpayments.
Cutting corners can be a sign of Machiavellianism.
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Employees who ‘cut corners’ at work tend to be morally compromised, low in conscientiousness, self-focused and impulsive.
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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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New research used a method that predicts divorce to pick up the signs that an employee will stay or leave their job.