It may not seem like a proud moment at first, but it happens to many small-business owners: The day two managers "step on each other's toes" and come to you to settle their turf battle. Finding ...

Your employees are the foundation of your business. If you train them well and maintain an environment conducive to efficient, excellent work, your employees will be effective and loyal. But if your ...

An aligned workforce is a happy, engaged workforce. Unfortunately, alignment between an organization and its employees doesn’t come naturally -- it takes planning, hard work and communication. Think ...

Among the many lessons and insights gained from decades of working with independent business owners, a particularly compelling one has to do with the development and growth of businesses over time; ...

Change is difficult. Habits, routines and learned behaviors make adjusting difficult at the individual level, and hard, if not impossible, at the organizational level. Whether a change takes the shape ...

Groups of line managers and supervisors in two organizations having different organizational structures were compared. As was hypothesized, relationships among the members of the groups in the more ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Perceptions of organizational climate, leadership, and group processes were aggregated within hierarchically nested work groups. Relationships ...

Minnetonka-based Medica announced Tuesday it will reduce its workforce by 230 positions, the latest step in expense reductions totaling $30 million. The reduction, which affects all levels of the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. An aligned workforce is a happy, engaged workforce. Unfortunately, alignment between an organization and its employees doesn’t come ...