WORKPLACE CONFLICTS
Cultural intelligence: A key skill for freshers to thrive in a diverse workspace
Employees need to cultivate cultural intelligence to thrive in a globalized work environment. Freshers can develop CI through cultural immersion, online resources, and self-awareness, crucial for navigating diverse workplaces with empathy and understanding.
Assertive communication: A must-have skill in the arsenal for freshers
Freshers face various workplace challenges, but assertive communication is key for success. It involves clarity, confidence, and respect, essential for effective leadership. By developing this skill, entry-level professionals can enhance collaboration, navigate conflicts, and advance their careers. Overcoming challenges and cultivating assertiveness can lead to professional growth and positive outcomes.
Nearly 78% employees in India experience job burnout, says UKG study
About 64% employees would readily accept a workload reduction for a commensurate pay cut, indicating that a majority of employees recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance and are willing to prioritise it over financial gain. However, the study also shows that nearly 89 % of employees in India claim to be highly motivated by challenges and extra responsibility at work, while 76% believe that their work is more than just a ‘job’ to them and has a special meaning.
Navigating workplace conflict: A quick guide for early career professionals
Workplace conflicts, if left unresolved, can harm organisational productivity and impact work culture. Differing personalities, conflicting goals, communication breakdown, discrimination, and high workload are common causes of disputes. To address conflicts, organisations can create inclusive environments, establish open communication channels, and introduce employee engagement activities.
Quiet quitting can get loud
Disengaged employees can harm businesses — treat employees with trust, dignity and respect. Although quiet quitting is frequently a sign of a broken system, mass demotivation is not always the fault of a single person. Yet, an angry or disinterested employee can negatively affect the morale of her co-workers. Most people prefer to work with passion and happy teammates.
Google's open culture collides with the Israel-Hamas war
In the month since Hamas launched an attack inside Israel, and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and invasion of the Gaza Strip, discussion of the topic at Google -- for Muslims and Jews -- has sunk into an morass of hostility and intolerance, employees say.
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Inclusive Leadership Training: Fostering Diversity and Equity
Fostering diversity and equity in the workplace has become an imperative for organizations seeking to thrive. Inclusive leadership training is a powerful tool for organizations seeking to create diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces. It empowers leaders to champion these values, resulting in a more engaged, innovative, and productive workforce.
Conflict Resolution Skills: Building Stronger Teams Through Leadership
Conflict resolution skills are essential for leadership and team development. Leaders who excel in these skills can transform conflicts into opportunities for growth, innovation, and stronger team cohesion.
Effective Communication: The Bridge to Successful Leadership
Effective communication is a crucial skill for successful leaders. It builds trust, aligns teams with goals, provides clarity and direction, empowers employees, facilitates feedback and conflict resolution, motivates and inspires, manages change, fosters cultural sensitivity, and sets an example for others. Leaders can improve their communication skills through active listening, seeking feedback, developing emotional intelligence, and consistently working on interpersonal skills. By prioritizing effective communication, leaders can create a positive work environment and lead their teams to success.
Leadership and Conflict Resolution: Navigating Challenges in the Workplace
Leadership plays a crucial role in conflict resolution in the workplace. By setting expectations for behavior, creating a safe space for communication, and serving as mediators, leaders can prevent conflicts from escalating and find solutions.
Leadership Ethics: Building Trust and Integrity in the Workplace
Leadership ethics have become increasingly important in today's business world. Trust and integrity are crucial for leaders to navigate complex challenges and create a healthy organizational culture. Key principles of leadership ethics include leading by example, transparency, fairness, accountability, respect, and empathy.
Firms take cognizance of sensitising those in managerial roles
This comes post the video that went viral in June of a prominent bank's senior VP berating his junior colleagues for not meeting their monthly targets and companies are taking stringent measures to avoid such situations.
The Backbone of Talent: Decoding the Crucial Role of Human Resources in Companies
The central department in charge of organizing and supervising all matters pertaining to personnel and employee activities inside a firm is known as human resources (HR). This all-encompassing term emphasizes the department's crucial function in managing human capital by referring to the entire workforce of a firm.
Empowering Performance: The Key Objectives of Human Resource Management
The goal of human resource management (HRM), a corporate function, is to maximize employee performance in order to achieve the strategic goals of the firm. With a focus on operational processes and policies, HRM primarily centers on managing humans within the organizational framework.
ChatGPT fever spreads to US workplace, sounding alarm for some
Companies worldwide are considering how to best make use of ChatGPT, a chatbot programme that uses generative AI to hold conversations with users and answer myriad prompts. Security firms and companies have raised concerns, however, that it could result in intellectual property and strategy leaks.
Importance of workplace relationships: It's time to become friends with your office colleague
Good workplace relationships are essential for enhancing innovation, compassion, and psychological safety, according to work by an executive educator and professor. The author has defined four categories of friend in the workplace, as ranging from a 'workplace best friend' to a 'co-worker acquaintance'.
Should you be friends with your co-workers? Here's what the research says
It's useful to differentiate between different types of friendships, as not all relationships offer the same advantages. By specifying friendship types, and understanding the benefits of each, we can make informed decisions about whether investing in specific relationships is worthwhile.
Resentment towards the side-hustle with no conflict of interest stems from a feudal attitude
The bosses don't like what they see. Wipro chairman Rishad Premji tweeted: 'There is a lot of chatter about people moonlighting in the tech industry. This is cheating - plain and simple.' On Thursday, Premji announced that the company had sacked 300 employees who had been moonlighting for 'direct competitors'. Fair enough. You can't be moonlighting for a rival.
Moonlighting polarises IT industry opinion; experts say return to workplace may ease concerns
With the vexed issue now in the spotlight, some industry watchers expect employers to consider extra safeguards to protect proprietary information and operating models, especially where employees are working remotely. Companies, analysts say, could also turn tougher on exclusivity clauses in employment contracts.
Dealing with workplace bullies? You don’t have to listen to toxic co-workers
Continue to be cordial with your colleague when you have no choice.
Flexible working: The future of workplace is hybrid
Employees see flexibility as a need-to-have, not a nice-to-have, benefit — and companies of all sizes are adjusting their workspace expectations to accommodate them.
Curiosity is a valuable trait among staff, leaders: Report
The SAS Curiosity@Work report found that managers in India are on a par with global averages in believing that curiosity is an intrinsically valuable trait that will continue to become more important for employees to have.
Tim Cook faces surprising employee unrest at Apple
Over the past month, more than 500 people who said they were current and former Apple employees have submitted accounts of verbal abuse, sexual harassment, retaliation and discrimination at work, among other issues, to an employee-activist group that calls itself #AppleToo.
The heroine of The Bold Type is everybody’s ideal boss. Now, only if we could take her out from Netflix into our workspaces
TBT is centred around a trio of millennial women, working at a women’s magazine in New York who juggle their careers, romance, friendships and big-city life while finding their own voices. You can call it ‘Not Sex in the City’, but that would give your age away.
India Diversity Forum to create awareness about diversity and inclusion at workplaces
The forum aims to increase employee engagement and confidence, help reduce conflict at workplaces and make the workplaces more humane and happy places. Its focus areas are women employment, equal opportunities for women, compiling and sharing of best practices, pay parity, health, safety and well-being of employees and team sensitization.
Privacy faces risks in tech-infused post-Covid workplace
With tech-infused gadgetry to improve workplaces, employees may face screenings even as they enter a building lobby, and monitoring in elevators, hallways and throughout the workplace. The monitoring may blur the line between people's workplace and personal lives.
Dial 'W' for women: Female bosses score higher than men
Female professionals excel in organisational development and coaching talent compared to men.
5 ways to build camaraderie at workplace
Millennials, who constitute a majority of present day workforce, would like to maximise their exposure by taking up different tasks or projects.
Deal with workplace discrimination
“The top management and leaders of the organisation must support and promote a culture that is transparent enough to discuss such issues with ease."
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