Customer Experience Insights From Unstructured Data
Today's consumers interact with brands in a variety of ways. This can be described as a nonlinear process that involves first becoming...
On Employee Disengagement
One fo the worrying trends in the past decade is the decline in employee engagement levels. Indeed, there is sufficient evidence to...
Work Practices and Covid-19
There has been a lot of discussion recently about how the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated trends already in motion prior to the...
Does Evidence Require Quantification?
Reflecting on employee engagement "interventions" I have often debated the need for 'quantifying' the evidence. Often, this means...
Overcoming the 5 Deadly Employee Engagement Deficits
Employee engagement is one of the key challenges facing management, especially in these fast changing and uncertain times. Throw in some...
The Importance of Work Design
We all know that there is a strong link between how we feel about our job and how we think about the organization we work for. Our job is...
The Value of a Good Theory
We are often dismissive of theories on the grounds that they are divorced from reality and the solution to real-world problems. “It is...
Engaged Scholarship: Useful Concept or Wishful Thinking?
Some see engaged scholarship as a useful conceptualisation aimed at bridging the gap between rigor and relevance. Others may see it as a...
Understanding How We Think and Behave
One of our key pre-occupations as managers, is to understand how we think and behave. It is axiomatic that if we can better understand...
People Centered Management
No single managerial practice can be singled out as a panacea for performance improvement. But there are principles we can apply that...