Tag: management
Frustrated employees – 62% admit to ‘rage-applying’ to new roles
Just under two-thirds of white-collar professionals have admitted to ‘rage applying’ to new jobs since the beginning of the year. The trend, which has seen a spike since New Year appraisals, occurs when professionals retaliate to a particularly bad day at work by firing out multiple applications to new roles.
The changing role of CIOs in modern business
In today's rapidly evolving business world, the role of the CIO has become increasingly vital in driving organisational productivity. However, these executives are confronted with challenges such as outdated technology, insufficient infrastructure, and increasing technical debt.
BOOK REVIEW | Corrupted
Through investigatory reports and interviews, Jonathan Jansen reveals the structural conditions for chronic dysfunction in a sample of South African universities. He reveals the political economy at work and the intense competition for resources on campuses. He also provides interventions for these fragile institutions.
Industrial relations is essential to dealing with workplace tensions
In any workplace, the relationship between management and the workforce can become tense or strained, for any number of reasons. Often, these tensions can escalate into industrial action, which can be severely disruptive to business.
How effective is your digital supply chain management?
As digital transformation increases at a dizzying pace, digital supply chain (DSC) management has become a business necessity. Software estates are ever-increasing, contracts and licences are becoming more complicated, and preventing wastage is more challenging than ever.
BOOK REVIEW | Thoughtonomy
If you are fundamentally unhappy with any aspect of your life right now, are low on self-confidence, or you’re frustrated because you know that you deserve so much more from this life, but you have no idea how to take that first step towards change, then Thoughtonomy, the first book authored by entrepreneur, business coach and public speaker, Grant Gavin, is for you.
BOOK REVIEW | Philosophy Inc.
In a business world where opinions have to be formed at a rapid pace, there is often little time for reflection. Managers need to make decisions quickly, run meetings efficiently and drive innovation, so it seems counterintuitive to stop the clock and take time to think things through.
BusinessBrief December/January 2022/23 edition is now available!
Read our exclusive cover story titled WHO WILL WATCH THE WATCHMEN? - THE RELEVANCE & ROLE OF THINK TANKS by David Ansara, Chief Executive (Designate), Free Market Foundation, as well a host of other topical management articles written by professionals, consultants and academics in the December/January 2022/23 edition.
BOOK REVIEW | When McKinsey Comes to Town
From Enron to the opioid scandal, an explosive, deeply-reported exposé that shows how McKinsey's has made the world more unequal, more corrupt and more dangerous over the last sixty years. McKinsey & Co. earns billions of dollars in fees from major corporations and governments who turn to them to maximise their profits and enhance efficiency.
BusinessBrief October/November 2022 edition is now available!
Read our exclusive cover story titled METAVERSE MIGRATION – ARE VIRTUAL SKILLS IN REALITY NEEDED? by Mic Mann, Co-founder and CEO, Africarare, as well a host of other topical management articles written by professionals, consultants and academics in the October/November 2022 edition.
