Upward Bullying and Organisational Change

Workplace bullying is attracting increased attention as organisations realise its impact. Bullying affects the culture and morale of staff, and also the sustainability and productivity of an organisation.

Traditionally, bullying is perceived as a more senior person victimising a junior person.

However, have you considered that Managers can also be targeted and subjected to bullying behaviours in the workplace?

Eight Ingredients of Change – BNET podcast

With a changing economy and rapidly emerging technologies, change is an essential ingredient of business.

In this BNET podcast, Dom Del Borello talks to Phil Dobbie about how to influence change in business.

Change Management: 8 Ways To Influence Change

With the economy teetering close to flat growth, there is increased pressure on change management to not only maintain but also improve margins and profits sustainably.

As part of any change management process the ability to influence a “step change” in how things are done is critical; particularly when implementing new processes and behaviours in large organisations.

This step change can only occur with the buy-in and support of employees and teams who are stakeholders in the business.

Traditional thinking suggests that power enables you to get things done, and in any organisation sources of power can include having formal authority, information, expertise, resources and reputation.

However, it’s important to note that…

Dealing With Difficult People At Work

You only need to start the conversation at a dinner party or function to hear countless tales of woe in the workplace about “that idiot I work with”.

If you are unfortunate enough to work with difficult people, you can sometimes feel powerless to effect any change.

You could leave, but difficult people are not centralised to your workplace so looking for greener pastures may not be the answer.

How To Motivate Employees

In my last blog I addressed the problems associated with financial bonus payments for employees. If throwing money at your employees won’t keep them motivated, what will?

I’m not going to list a bunch of initiatives about how to keep your employees motivated without spending a cent .

What I will do is discuss how, as an employer, you can develop effective non-monetary motivational strategies in your business.

I came across a great definition of motivation on Business Dictionary.com. They define motivation as…

Why Money Isn’t A Great Employee Motivation Strategy

I had an interesting conversation with another HR professional recently discussing employee motivation and retention strategies.

Too many businesses fail to hit the mark when implementing effective, successful retention and motivation strategies. We both reflected on our experiences and agreed that money is often a significant factor.

It can be difficult to get the remuneration balance right in a company: too little will leave employees dissatisfied, but too much can be equally detrimental.

Motivation theorist Fredrick Hertzberg believes workplaces are made up of two factors – hygiene and motivators…

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