News: Performance Management
Management training 'must lead to less-intensive approach'
23 March 2009
Training must teach executives to adopt a less intensive management style if companies are to improve their efficiency, a study suggests.
The Work Foundation's Knowledge Workers and Knowledge Work report finds nearly two-thirds of employees identify their business' primary characteristic as being rule and policy-bound.
Ian Brinkley, its co-author and associate director of the not-for-profit organisation, asserts that a large number of companies are not making the most of their workforce due to management decisions.
He suggests that a less intensive style of leadership should be adopted in order to increase employee autonomy and productivity.
Mr Brinkley states: "Organisations should be taking full advantage of widespread opportunities to give people more responsibility, move away from rules and procedure-based workplace cultures and reorganise work and use new technologies."
Earlier this month, former head of training and development at the BBC and managing director of a self-titled company Nigel Paine told TrainingZone.co.uk that a higher level of employee engagement improves the effectiveness of training.
