Creating and working in team is one of the most challenging things to deal in a company because working and cooperating with people is challenging. Creating a team is not difficult: just gather some people and that is all. However, creating productive teams than this is another story. It’s not just enough to get people together, but you must know their skills, aptitudes, interests and even their personality. Each member of a team must understand the mission and objectives of your organization. Even if he has a specific job function and belongs to a specific department there must exist unification in order to accomplish a common goal.
The failure of a work team appears when leaders fail to define the team they wanted to build. That is why it is important to have some strategies and to know to create an efficient work team. So before making a team, consider the following strategies. Continue reading ‘Building effective work teams’
Organizational culture is the key to productivity. Why? Just look at these giants: FedEx, IBM, and I. E. DuPont Nemours are just a few of the organizations which have an organizational culture so strong, that it spreads not only through companies’ members but also to outsiders.
A poorly designed work environment will sap the employees’ spirit and will lead organization into “slippery grounds”. Even if on the outside, things seems to work fine there are many situation when managers and employees are frustrated of the inability to complete plans and projects because of confusion, stress, pressure and even sabotage. This unhealthy, passive-aggressive work environment will not bring any benefits for your company. People do not want to work in a company where rudeness triumphs and the ones that work there will lack motivation, communication and innovation. They will just do thing to be done or will do things just to be better then the other.
Happiness provides everyone positive attitude and makes us stronger while dealing with difficult situations and day by day routines. For example if you are happy, fulfilling a task is more pleasant and maybe you will finish it faster than in another situation.
Let’s consider the following situations:
A. Your boss has prepared for you a new project and he says: you have to fulfill task 1 until 10 am, task 2 until 12 pm, task 3 until 3 pm etc. At 12 pm you can take one hour break for lunch. And this is not all. While completing your tasks, the boss is regularly checking your work and it’s keeping an eye on your work.
According to Proffpoint Inc. data security research, more and more companies are increasingly concerned about a growing number of data leaks. This pushes organizations to embrace more drastic preventive measures. Last year survey revealed that 29% of companies hired staff only to monitor outgoing email of colleagues. Now, the number of companies that employ staff whose primary or exclusive job is to monitor the content of outbound email has increased to 38%.
“Draconian measures” some might say, but, if we take a closer look at the reasons they choose to adopt this strategy, we might understand their concern. By investigating the exposure of confidential, sensitive or private information via email, blogs, multimedia channels and social networks, the end result was generally very bad news. Continue reading ‘4 in 10 companies have full-time email monitoring staff’
A few days ago I was informing you about studies that revealed that Facebook is a productivity killer. It seems that this has been closely monitored by many managers lately, because now it’s time for another study to show that Facebook is also a reason for firing employees. There is no wonder, since numbers shown that 87% of employees using the social networking site at work couldn’t define a clear business reason for using it.
Proofpoint Survey says that 17 percent of companies have issues with employee’s use of social media. Furthermore, 8% of companies reported that they have dismissed employees because of their behavior on sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. An alarming thing is Continue reading ‘8% of US companies fired employees because of Facebook’
Studies show that one in three Americans are taking naps, and that number may actually be higher, because they do not include those who only “close their eyes” in an easy chair on a regular basis but don’t admit they are napping.
Considering that people are used to take a nap in the middle of the day, when they are at work, and watching these numbers, we should ask ourselves what happens with employee productivity during this period? How much does this habit affect their productivity?
There are substantial differences in working time between European countries, especially between the former European Union members and the new members, according to the report, “Working time developments – 2008” conducted every year by Eurofound.
Across the European Union, the longest working weeks are found in Romania (41.8 hours), the Czech Republic (41.7 hours) and Latvia (41.7 hours). At the opposite side, with the shortest working weeks are France (38.4 hours), Belgium (38.6 hours) and Ireland (38.9 hours).
Considering that the normal working week in these countries is 40 hours, it would be interesting to analyze the ovetime activity of employees that spend more time at the office.Is overtime justified? Do the employees use it for work related activities or not?
The study also analysis the number of days of agreed annual paid leave. Numbers shows that the annual paid leave varies considerably, from 33 days in Sweden to 20 days in Cyprus and Estonia. Among the countries with higher paid leave we also find Denmark and Germany with 30 days, while among the countries with the lower paid leave we find Slovakia with 21.2 days and Romania with 21 days.
Once with the explosion of mobile communications technology the employees’ behavior has changed. So is the work and life balance. Smartphones and laptops help employees remain in constant contact with their work, but, what about their personal life?
A study conducted by Kelly Global Workforce Index, which obtained the views of approximately 100,000 people in 34 countries covering North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific has analyzed the impact of modern technology in employees’ productivity.
Creating and working in team is one of the most challenging things to deal in a company because working and cooperating with people is challenging. Creating a team is not difficult: just gather some people and that is all. However, creating productive teams than this is another story. It’s not just enough to get people together, but you must know their skills, aptitudes, interests and even their personality. Each member of a team must understand the mission and objectives of your organization. Even if he has a specific job function and belongs to a specific department there must exist unification in order to accomplish a common goal.
Organizational culture is the key to productivity. Why? Just look at these giants: FedEx, IBM, and I. E. DuPont Nemours are just a few of the organizations which have an organizational culture so strong, that it spreads not only through companies’ members but also to outsiders.
Happiness provides everyone positive attitude and makes us stronger while dealing with difficult situations and day by day routines. For example if you are happy, fulfilling a task is more pleasant and maybe you will finish it faster than in another situation.
According to Proffpoint Inc. data security research, more and more companies are increasingly concerned about a 
Studies show that one in three Americans are taking naps, and that number may actually be higher, because they do not include those who only “close their eyes” in an easy chair on a regular basis but don’t admit they are napping.
There are substantial differences in working time between European countries, especially between the former European Union members and the new members, according to the report, “Working time developments – 2008” conducted every year by 
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