We know there need to be clear accountability and authority frameworks in place for work to be properly delegated down and across the organization. And while self-managed teams and flat organizations are all the rage, total empowerment could result in anarchy....
Following our research on manager effectiveness, we developed a comprehensive, organization-wide survey as a tool available to all CEOs for assessing the state of management in their organizations. The Effective Managers survey is an easy and convenient way to receive...
There are a variety of factors at play that obstruct manager effectiveness. For our research purposes, we identified the key dimension: accountability. In this context, accountability is “an obligation for which one can be held to account for one’s results and actions...
Following are the comments of four of the participants from the research phase of the Effective ManagersTM survey. We asked them for permission to identify them as participants in the survey, and for a brief comment on their perceptions of the results. “As...
For the past three years, Harris Interactive has conducted a work stress survey in which they polled 1000 Americans from a variety of different industries on the level of stress they relate to a job. Last year’s results showed as much as 73 percent of employees felt...
It’s easy for managers to feel overwhelmed. There are simply not enough hours in the day to get everything done, and most find it extremely challenging to make time for the value-added work that only they can do at their level. Research shows that managers are working...
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