Shareholder Value: the Elephant in the Room

We have seen many management mantras over the years: Total Quality Management; Just-In-Time Procurement; Six Sigma; Customer First; the Learning Organisation; Balanced Scorecard; and many more. But the most pervasive, insidious and dangerous is Shareholder Value. In principle there’s no reason why shareholders shouldn’t derive benefit from the investments they make and risks they take,
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The Annual Employee Engagement Survey Should Be Just That

There’s been a lot of chatter on the “LinkedSphere” recently about annual surveys versus more or less frequent monitoring. A recent survey by Quantum Workplace has found some interesting outcomes. They compared companies doing regular annual surveys with those doing so less frequently (e g every eighteen months of two years).The idea was to prove or
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