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Change management never quite goes according to plan. But it’s hard to figure out if Elon Musk even has a plan.
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Not all people in banks are unethical, but banking attracts unethical people.
Most management theories still in practice were developed more than a century ago.
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Very few companies have embraced alternative management systems that satisfy the interests of customers, employees and shareholders concurrently,
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The risk of “pathocracy” is always close. And once entrenched, difficult to dislodge.
Enron: Once powerful, now gone.
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Once-leading firms such as Chrysler, Citigroup, Dunlop and Nokia have one thing in common: they failed. While each case seems unique, research points to key processes that lead to corporate failures.
Automation has replaced workers in mining and industry, including the steelworks at Port Kembla, but most Australians are more worried about jobs going overseas.
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Most Australian workers are fairly relaxed about their own job security, but they do worry about the risks of poor management and outsourcing to cheaper labour.
Leaders often don’t notice how much they base their idea of leadership on themselves.
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We may often criticise our lack of leaders. But leadership is not easy to define – even by leaders themselves.
Giving workers a ‘voice’ is easy, and has already been proven effective as a management technique.
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Employees whose bosses give them some discretion over their work tasks are significantly more likely to engage in political behaviours outside work.
Merck CEO Ken Frazier, seated next to Trump, was first to resign from his manufacturing council.
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Trump’s reaction to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, prompted business leaders to sever ties with two White House councils.
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Organisational psychopathy, generally known as toxic leadership, is common in the private sector. It’s emerging more often in the public space too.
Who you gonna listen to?
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Higher-ups at Wells Fargo, Volkswagen and Uber all failed to stop unethical practices that had significant repercussions. New research offers some clues on why.
Finding meaning in what you do is key.
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People find meaning in their work for different reasons, but bad management can easily destroy it.
Employees who chose to be emotionally manipulative may also have high emotional intelligence.
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Employees who admitted to being emotionally manipulative in a survey may also be perceived as being emotionally intelligent in their workplaces, a study has found.
Not everyone gets the corner office.
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The fact that ambition, competence and interpersonal skills are not well correlated could explain why many managers struggle.
Toxic leaders make for exploitative, destructive, devaluing and demeaning work experiences.
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Three in ten leaders across the world are toxic. Toxic leaders destroy individuals as well as organisations, and affect the performance of a society and country.
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There is an air of mysticism attached to high-growth companies: but in the main, they followed five golden rules.
Higher levels of EI have been linked with ethical behaviour - but it also takes some degree of interpersonal skill to manipulate others.
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It’s assumed good managers are intelligent, but do they also need emotional intelligence? And if that’s missing, can they learn?
The Cotton On Group’s code of conduct reflects a misunderstanding of what they should be used for.
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Codes of conduct can be useful and strategic for employers, but too many are contradictory and vague.
The 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico marked a new management low for BP.
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Before the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP had previously gained high praise for its treatment of a similar spill.
Before the biff: James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond during the filming of a ‘Top Gear’ episode.
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Bullying is widely talked about, but what about incivility in the workplace? It’s a wider scourge and linked to bullying, but the solutions can be simple.