Driving return on investment through people
Business environments are undergoing rapid and continuous change, and organisations and their HR leaders would benefit from a design thinking-led approach to change management, writes Colleen d’Offay Around 70 per cent of change management programmes fail, according to research by Deloitte, which found that the reasons for failure suggest a […]
There is a formula that HR professionals can use to help assess why people do or don’t mobilise well in crises, and it can be used successfully in a change management process, according to Dave Hanna The plant manager in a troubled automobile factory gave a presentation in an all-hands […]
Companies need to build employees’ change capability to avoid productivity declines, according to recent research, which found that organisations may be underestimating the impact that just one change can have on their bottom line. Employees who are stressed by change are five per cent less productive, costing the average organisation […]
Failing to set clear behavioural expectations and hold people accountable to them is the primary reason organisations struggle with culture change, writes Karen Gately We’ve all seen it happen; the so-called high performing team member repeatedly getting away with behaving in ways no one else is allowed to. Entitled, demanding and […]
HR can play an important role in helping managers navigate organisational turbulence and uncertainty, writes Jennie Walker “The only thing that is constant is change.” The Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, was the first to pen this popular phrase around 500BC. Its endurance today is certainly a testament to its validity. Yet, […]
