Taking People With You, Part 2
David Novak is clear. Leadership is a privilege and he says leaders need to be passionate about their employees. “Companies go awry when they think about profit first,” he says. Instead they get focused on the end goal, rather than employees and customers.
Tags: leadership, management
Taking People With You, Part One
About a decade ago I interviewed David Novak, the CEO of Yum Brands, more familiar to many readers as Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. Read the rest of this entry »
Confronting Abuse at Work
If your New Year’s resolutions include better job performance, one essential ingredient may be your relationship with your boss. Recently researchers at the University of Haifa (Isreal) examined how employees cope with the stress of abusive treatment by a superior. Read the rest of this entry »
Bouncing Back From Fiscal Adversity
This week’s Newsday carries the story of Kathleen King, founder of Tate’s Bake Shop in Southampton, New York. Eager to expand early in the last decade she entered into a partnership that soured. Reaching a court settlement she lost the use of her name on the business, mortgaged the store that housed the bakery and put her home up for sale. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: job creation
Women in Leadership? Maybe Next Year
The news from Catalyst a New York based non-profit that focuses on women in management, delivered gloomy news today. There is still little room for women at the top. There were no significant gains made over the last year. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: board of directors, corporate boards, employee attitudes, female executives, gender parity, hiring, leadership, management
Dissatisfied at Work? Is it Your Age?
If you are dissatisfied at work, it could be your age. In a study released this week by the Sloan Center on Aging and Work entitled Generations of Talent Study trains a spotlight on the effects of country, age and career stage among employees worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »
Does studying harder and longer mean greater success?
With all the attention being paid to the country’s competitiveness, theNational Survey for Student Engagement released today, shows students in the sciences devoting more time and attention to their studies than liberal arts, education, business and social science students. Read the rest of this entry »
Gender and Corporate Responsiblity
In a new study, Gender and Corporate Responsibility: It’s a Matter of Sustainability, conducted by researchers at Catalyst, a non-profit that focuses on the achievement of women and business and the Harvard Business School there is evidence that companies with more women in senior management positions may be better practitioners of corporate social responsibility. Previous research showed these companies, on average, financially outperform, those with fewer women in upper management. Read the rest of this entry »
Becoming a Parent/Leaving the Workplace–Choice or Discrimination?
Sylvia Ann Hewlett writes extensively about the barrier women face to promotion, especially if they exit the workplace to care for young children or increasingly aging parents. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: discrimination, parenting, work-life balance
The Benefits of a Paid Internship
Recently the National Association of Colleges and Employers released a study about paid internships that showed prior paid internships resulted in higher job search success and higher salaries when a former intern was hired. The study made no similar correlation between unpaid internships, job placement and starting salary.
As a story in Inside Higher Ed discussed there is significant controversy around unpaid internships, who they benefit and to what extent a subject also discussed by Ross Perlin in his book Intern Nation.
As the spring internship application season heats up, students need to carefully weigh their aspirations and personal circumstances before commiting themselves to a semester long internship. And once the semester starts school administrators need to make sure their students are being treated professionally.
Tags: Inside Higher Ed, Intern Nation, National Association of Colleges and Employers, paid internships, student advising, unpaid internships
