I have just been reviewing an article on spirituality in management for a management journal. In many ways it was a useful contribution to the growing corpus in this field, but I was struck by the author’s easy commitment to the orthodoxy that spirituality naturally leads to ‘spiritual behaviour,’ which in turn can be measured in order to decide whether or not facilitating spirituality at work makes good sense. Read More
We are forever counselling companies who want to achieve change to look to their performance management systems. After all, ‘what gets measured gets managed’. Now that employees have grown used to appraisal systems, they’ve also learned how to play these systems, and there’s no point in hoping for new behaviours if people are not going to be rewarded for displaying them. Read More
