How Women Can Negotiate For Pay Rise

Following millennia of hyper-defined gender roles and painful explicit bias against women in the official and public space, women since World War II count numerous cultural and professional successes towards breaking down gender barriers and baseless ceilings. While around the world and right here in Kenya, women hold senior government positions and sit on corporate boards in ways unthinkable a generation ago, they are still disproportionately represented compared to men.

Read more

Disclosures That Can Wreck Office Relations

Organisational behaviourists analyse employee willingness to disclose personal information to their managers as a key predictor of whether staff trust their superiors and, in turn, will perform better in their jobs.

Read more

How To Keep Star Employees and Lose Mundane Performers

Keeping employees on the move can be good for business. In life, as in business, nothing stands still. Indeed, the whole essence of life is that what keeps the life force going in cells, and humans is motion. Once things stop, that’s when entropy begins, and deterioration and decay set in.

Read more

Bad to the Bone: Dealing With a Bad Boss

You're weary. You're frustrated. You're unhappy. You're demotivated. Your interaction with your boss leaves you cold. He's a bully, intrusive, controlling, picky or petty. He takes credit for your work, never provides positive feedback and misses each meeting he schedules with you. Or he caves immediately under pressure and fails to support you in accomplishing your job. He never recognizes your excellent performance or that of any other employee so the office is joyless and unhappy.

Read more