Adjust your Attitude!
Chairman and CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch made headlines when he controversially claimed that it is more important to retain poorly performing managers who embrace corporate values than those who achieve results whilst not toeing the corporate line.
How can we justify this strategy as the economic climate changes?
Legal Eagles Get their Claws into Business
The Birmingham College of Law celebrated a new high this term, as a record 30 teams flexed their commercial muscles in Elgood's challenging business competition, Growbal.
Cut your Overheads - Keep Your Staff
Why do people leave your organisation? Dissatisfaction with pay may be the obvious answer, but did you know that lack of training and development opportunities is often the cause?
As well as being an inconvenience, staff turnover represents a large overhead for many organisations,
with average replacement costs estimated at £7,750, rising to £11,000 for senior managers according to recent figures.
So how do you rate on these key issues?
- Employee Motivation
- Staff Commitment to your company culture
- Team working
- Providing personnel with ways to learn new skills
Enhance the Bottom Line... with Compnay Values
So your company has values, but do your employees really know what they are?
A recent report by the
Institute of
Business Ethics shows that in 2007 an amazing 40% of
UK companies provided no training on the meaning and use of their codes of ethics.
Critically, the research claims ‘Businesses that train their staff to understand and implement codes of ethics financially outperform those that do not by a significant margin.
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