The experiments at the Hawthorne, Chicago plant of Western Electric are justly famous in the classic texts of social science. However, they remain largely unknown in the everyday world. A survey of managers reveals that Hawthorne means nothing to many. Indeed, an online HR magazine recently included a reader’s question that asked if Hawthorn (sic) was fact or fiction! The results from the Hawthorne studies are an important input to understanding how to manage people.
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Reward Systems
Employment is the exchange of your time and effort for reward. We all have firm ideas of how that works, don’t we? The rewards of work vary widely though.
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Do we all agree that it is the manager’s job to be responsible for their team?
Continue readingTop Ten Employee Engagement Tips
Tip#1: Employee Engagement isn’t something that is to be done and finished, it is a continuous living process. Tip#2: Employee Engagement is treating people as individuals, not as ‘units of labour’ or ‘human resources’, and making a human connection.
Continue readingGrow the cake
The British have an innate sense of fair play. Try jumping the queue in Tesco and see what happens.
Continue readingTen ideas to absorb the increased costs from the National Minimum Wage escalator
The media is claiming that gloom and doom is spreading over UK businesses as the impact of the April rise in the minimum wage “ramps up” costs. Certainly, there are more increases expected every year to 2020 with a £9 an hour minimum wage (for over 25s) in the cross-hairs. Even then we would be behind our erstwhile friends in Europe.
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Management Insights
Business people may be short of many things, but information isn’t one of them. Put “Employee Engagement” into Google and you get 9.7 million results! The problem is time: you want to keep abreast of the latest developments but you have limited time and don’t want to waste it on low grade information. We are in the fifth year of curating the best posts, on the subjects below, from across the web, for our Clients.
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Top Business Concerns 2017
The results of our survey of 2000 business contacts.
Upcoming Performs will address the top concerns.
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Productivity
There is a lot of confusion around Productivity and people are demanding action from the Government. The Government throws money at it, our money, and the Productivity confusion will get worse!Productivity is simple to understand, and needs very little time or money to improve. Can we just get on with it please?
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Introduction to Perform
This video introduces Motivation Matters blog, Perform, and explains the value you get from the content
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