How can workers best be encouraged to give their energy and commitment to the company? In the 1980s, performance‐related pay was favoured. Rejects that approach and emphasizes the need to build a partnership between workers and management, and for all to feel involved in every aspect of the firm.

Making people redundant has become a way of life for many multinationals over the past decade. In a quest for efficiency, firms have been laying off thousands of employees ‐ and most observers expect the trend to continue. But many of the multinationals that have cut their payroll have not...

The flawed hero is a staple of literature, and a fact of life for companies across the world. Yet companies and management systems rarely cater for anything other than a perfect employee. Instead of seeing employees as highly diverse and imperfect human beings who can achieve great things by...

Participation, teamwork, innovation, risk‐taking and empowerment. We all know the buzz words. But how do we bring the concepts successfully to fruition? Provides some important clues.