Corporate Culture
Social media: An essential tool for internal communication
- Published on 15 May 2013
- HR Pulse News Desk
Social media is becoming more and more pervasive in the world we live in, and has already been entrenched as a tool for external marketing. But what about internal communication? New research shows it might be groundbreaking there as well.
Why do we tolerate incompetence?
- Published on 30 Apr 2013
- Ingrid Kast
Low levels of performance, high absenteeism rates or a disconnect between company values and employee attitudes are venom that, once it has diffused through the organisation’s arteries, will softly kill the spirit needed to achieve and sustain world-class standards. By remaining silent, we pardon this incompetence - displayed by certain employees - by default.
How to deal with toxic employees
- Published on 15 Apr 2013
- Anja Hartman
The impact of employees who intentionally break company rules - and the cost, time and energy wasted to solve the issues that arise – is counter-productive. This means that you should try, as far as possible, to avoid appointing ‘toxic’ employees.
How to increase your project success rate
- Published on 11 Apr 2013
- HR Pulse News Desk
The exact failure rate of projects is difficult to capture, but studies place it somewhere between 40 and 70%. The UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) offers some ideas about how you can up your projects’ success rates.
Will there be an office in ten years’ time?
- Published on 2 Apr 2013
- Linda Trim
As technologies change and develop at an ever-increasing pace, and it becomes more common for employees to work out of the office, where does this leave the conventional office? Will there even be an office in 10 or 20 years?
