Employee motivation is quite a complex topic. For a long time, management scholars and practitioners maintained that money was the key to employee motivation. This perspective originated at the time of the industrial revolution and can be traced back to Adam Smith’s, The Wealth of Nations, a renowned work in classical economics. I will spare [...]
Do you love to learn? Do you enjoy solving problems and pondering complex issues? If you answered yes, you might make a good mentor. Researchers John Cacioppo and Richard Petty would describe you as high on need for cognition. One way to conceive of a person who is high on need for cognition is to imagine a [...]
When you’re are an expert in your respective field, much of what you know is hidden from your consciousness, making it difficult to teach others your craft. Consider the example of a professional baseball player who is up at bat. The time it takes for the eye to assess the trajectory of the ball once it [...]
The clock is ticking. 250,000 Canadian boomers will retire this year. Is your organization ready? In a recent Globe and Mail article, Parkinson, Mcfarland and Mckenna pointed out that 250,000 Canadian boomers are anticipated to retire this year. Even more disconcerting, experts anticipate that in the coming years this number will jump to 400,000. At first [...]
If you had to teach your successor how to motivate your team what would you tell her? How would you explain to an apprentice what exactly you do as a seminar facilitator to captivate and charm an audience? How would you describe your ability to intuitively know a good hire from a bad one? How do [...]
Are you counting down the days until your retirement? Are you dreaming of a life without deadlines, demands or expectations? Are you looking forward to not having to set an alarm clock? Most people are in fact dreaming of a retirement in which they get to play, pursue hobbies and develop new interests. Finally, you [...]
What are your thoughts about retirement? Are you longing for the freedom that retirement affords? Or, are you concerned that you will be bored, craving for some structure to your days? The decision to retire is intimately tied to one’s work role, organization, family status, market conditions, finances and individual characteristics, as health, wealth, values and [...]
Will your tribal knowledge walk out the door without grooming the next generation of leaders? Although planning for retirement has long been regarded as the responsibility of the employee, research indicates that employers who offer pre-retirement educational programs reap concrete benefits far beyond goodwill. Our research is starting to reveal that employees who feel valued by [...]
Are your HR decisions being guided by gross inaccuracies? • Are your older employees being passed over for promotion? • Are you less likely to invest in training and development initiatives for your mature workers? • Do you have a tendency of negatively evaluating older workers performance just because- well just because they are older? You [...]
You need to plan what you are retiring to, and not focus on what you are retiring from For many business leaders, work is the founding principle upon which their sense of self is derived. Work represents a symbol of achievement and a source of power and prestige. Specifically, work provides a sense of purpose, a [...]
