This paper looks at inclusive workplaces (IW) – organisations where people can be themselves, feel they belong and fully contribute. We want to find out more about the drivers and the barriers decision makers face as they attempt to shape more inclusive workplaces. We also explore the role of metrics, their potential and limitations, in…
The work of an Organisation Design (OD) practitioner involves the use of planned interventions to improve organisational effectiveness. OD’s ideas and practices mainly derive from the disciplines of psychology, sociology and business theory but OD practitioners can also look elsewhere for inspiration – sport and politics for example. This month of winning and losing on…
Home and hybrid working has made it harder for those new to line management to build a sense of team and monitor individual performance, and has also robbed line managers of valuable exposure to everyday manager-team interactions from which to learn. I’ve come into work for three days this week and it’s been fun meeting…
Over breakfast recently I heard Kate Raworth on Radio 4’s Today programme critiquing the government’s now abandoned growth-based economic policy. It reminded me how much I enjoyed reading her book Doughnut Economics which exhorts politicians – and the rest of us – to ditch the tired old economic theories that simply don’t reflect reality anymore…
