The development of the socio-technical approach offered a new paradigm of work design and development1. It is an approach which is under-pinned by a number of principles2: Work systems focus: rather than focus on individual jobs, the approach regards the…
Continue Reading“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” Peter Drucker The last 70 or so years has seen the development and codification of organisation-wide processes to drive sustained improvement. Generally, these improvement processes have been called…
Continue Reading“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination” Albert Einstein Across the world, organisations both public and private are seeking to innovate and raise their levels of productivity. Most will make incremental changes. A few will use their…
Continue Reading“Gaining better understanding of the relationship between skills utilisation and skills development is important because skills development in the workplace is a worldwide phenomenon with a real impact on productivity.1” The skills development process is a continuous one covering the…
Continue Reading“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything. A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its outputs per worker.”1 Productivity is seen to lie…
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