Zero hours contracts – 21st Century Slavery?
There is an emerging movement against the employment practices of an increasing number of employers who are using zero hour contracts with onerous clauses requiring […]
Business Management
Can we rely on the Markets?
The mantra has always been to rely on the market to determine the price of commodities and with technology and other developments we now use […]
Gamification – the new approach to motivation?
What? There is emerging a new idea for motivating individuals to perform activities and change behaviours – gamification. This approach uses a games like interface […]
Rethinking Motivation
When I was a student we were introduced to Herzberg’s two factor concept of motivation – Hygiene Factors and Motivators. Dan Pink develops this approach […]
Always on business environment stifling innovation and productivity
According to an article in the McKinsey Quarterly we mangers are becoming less creative and less productive in todays ‘always on’ business environment. They are […]
Graduate jobs – SMEs not the corporation
The telegraph has identified a glimmer in the gloom for graduates seeking positions. The view has always been that graduates move to the large firm […]
What are the real skills we need?
Term starts in a couple of weeks and I will be working on a fist year module that is designed to develop students skills and […]
Heading for the clouds.
There has been a great deal of hype in the technical media about Cloud Computing – but to many it is just the latest buzz […]
HR Experts See Pessimism as Negative Factor
I think we can all agree with HR’s magazine story that pessimistic managers will not be the managers that fins a way out of the […]