By Dr. Mark Paiker General Manager of DMSA March 2008 In the context of increasing skill shortages, retaining your best talent gives you a competitive advantage. Therefore knowing and understanding how your people feel about your organization and its management practices is absolutely critical. For the past eleven years I have conducted climate and culture…
Learn More >A Strengths based approach to profiling Leadership Styles What constitutes a great leader? Does a particular mix of personality traits and skills set one on the inevitable path of a leader, conquering countries or winning netball matches? Perhaps, but it is also true that a great leader is not necessarily effective in all situations and…
Learn More >There has recently been a massive shift in thinking in the field of Organisational Behaviour – away from an employee deficit approach, which focuses on what’s wrong with employees and organisations and how to fix them, towards a capabilities approach which focuses on employee strengths and the organisational processes that support them. Effectively, what this…
Learn More >By Jenny Fisher Business Strategy Specialist DMSA MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES… Stress seems to have become a way of life for South Africans. If it’s not a national crisis such as crime, political instability or the energy crisis that’s top of mind, a global crisis related to the environment or the economy dominates…
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