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Good leaders actively manage their image in a way that does justice to the complexity of their identity, writes UNSW Business School’s Frederik Anseel ‘Authentic’ is the word of the year. At least, that is what publisher Merriam-Webster concludes based on the number of searches in its dictionary. That should not be surprising. Artificial intelligence and image manipulation make […]
Rather than worrying about productivity, organisations should rethink their approach to managing and leading hybrid workers, writes UNSW Business School’s Frederik Anseel You might have noticed in the newspaper in the past couple of weeks: the latest offensive against hybrid working has been launched. More than anything else, the pandemic has launched a work revolution. […]
Subconscious and subtle mechanisms partly explain why women still experience career progression challenges and pay gaps, writes UNSW Business School’s Frederik Anseel More than 80 per cent of women feel excluded from networking activities at work. ‘Too bad,’ thinks the male reader, ‘but I’m not guilty of that.’ That same survey shows that 92 per […]
The rise of hybrid work is a godsend, but the youngest generation taking their first steps at work face an unknown challenge, writes UNSW Business School’s Frederik Anseel In biology, arrested development means that natural growth does not continue as expected. Animals – including humans – can get stuck in a specific development phase. There […]
A looming showdown in the labour market is producing both winners and losers, writes UNSW Business School’s Frederik Anseel Do the following sentences sound familiar to you? The traditional career as your parents and grandparents knew it is coming to an end. People are no longer tied to one employer, but jump from one job […]
With the shift to hybrid work, people have become alienated from their work because they feel anonymous and invisible, writes UNSW Business School’s Frederik Anseel Do you matter? A simple three-word question, but those three words can help with understanding why some people languish at work while others even struggle with burnout. With the recent […]
It’s time to re-evaluate the middle manager because the empirical evidence for their added value is overwhelming, writes UNSW Business School’s Frederik Anseel Nobody wakes up in the morning and thinks, ‘middle manager, that is my calling’. The middle manager seems like a necessary evil. At a certain point, a company grows so fast that […]
Businesses need to change how they approach skills in order to recruit or develop the talent they need, writes UNSW Business School’s Frederik Anseel Often companies have no idea what they mean by talent. They go out and try to get their hands on any profile that might fit the bill. But if you don’t […]
If every country faces the same record tight labor market, then local policy failure may not be the cause, writes UNSW Business School’s Frederik Anseel “Where are the workers?” asks The New York Times desperately. The United States is facing an unprecedented labour shortage. There are more vacancies than job seekers. The reason? The Great Resignation: people are […]
A new job sounds tempting. But in a hybrid world, starting over is damn hard, writes UNSW Business School’s Frederik Anseel In 2021, my colleague Anthony Klotz at Texas A&M University coined the term “The Great Resignation”. The term became an overnight classic because it captured so well this lingering feeling in the workforce of […]