Productivity – Not Just Another Buzzword
In this blog Dr Anwar Adem discusses what productivity means, how we measure it, and why it should matter to businesses and government.
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Masterminding The Perfect Manager
In the latest instalment of our blog series exploring links between managerial capability, conflict management and productivity, Susan Clews, Chief Executive at Acas, draws on lessons from the frontline of employee relations and conflict resolution to ‘mastermind the perfect manager.’ If Acas was ever invited to appear on ‘Mastermind’, it wouldn’t be difficult to predict what our specialist
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Boost management capability to better resolve conflict at work
As part of our blog series exploring links between managerial capability, conflict management and productivity, Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Advisor at the CIPD, highlights the need to invest in people management capability to handle conflict effectively. In the current health and economic crisis organisations are facing an employment relations challenge like never before. The pandemic is not having
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Managerial Capability, Conflict Management and Productivity
Managers play a critical front-line role in dealing with challenging situations and confronting problems in the workplace. Making sure that managers have the right skills to proactively tackle emerging problems and conduct high quality conversations with their team can deliver real benefits for an organisation in terms of productivity and performance. This series features a
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Capability, conflict and the productivity puzzle
In the first of a series of blogs exploring links between managerial capability, management of conflict and organisational productivity, Professor Richard Saundry examines what the research to date tells us about building managerial capability to effectively manage conflict and create more productive workplaces. When I first started researching conflict in UK workplaces in 2008, a
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Digital Co-production – new opportunities for collaborative innovation
In this second co-production blog for Scottish Co-production Week – #CoProWeekScot – Dr. Elke Loeffler reflects on the potential impact of digital technologies on co-production and new pathways to co-production in the context of COVID-19 by drawing on the German Hackathon “WirVsVirus”. Co-production challenges in private and public services Co-production of services with service users
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Co-production as a route to transformation in public services – lessons for productivity and innovation?
In this blog that coincides with Scottish Co-production Week – #CoProWeekScot – Professor Colin Lindsay reflects on the importance of co-production for more responsive public services, and considers if there are lessons for PrOPEL Hub partners and employers interested in driving productivity and innovation in public, private and third sector workplaces. It’s Scottish Co-production Week
Fathers’ Flexible Working Arrangements
In this blog, Professor Sara Connolly and Dr Matthew Aldrich share findings from research into gender perceptions and uptake of flexible working arrangements.
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Matching people hours and jobs: building back without under-employment
Professor Colin Lindsay of the University of Strathclyde blogs on recent research by Strathclyde Business School and the University of Portsmouth on drivers of under-employment, and what we can do to build back towards workplaces where people have access to the hours and shifts that they need. There has been much discussion of the need,
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The PrOPEL Hub Celebrates Entrepreneurship
Explore the world of entrepreneurship with the PrOPEL Hub as we release new content to mark Global Entrepreneurship Week. THRIVING IN UNCERTAINTY PODCAST – PART 2 Release Date – 18 November It’s been 9 months since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation and countries across the world went into lockdown. The
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