From Jo Rider-Head of Construction Recruitment Services at Orchard
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I’ve just returned from a lovely weekend break in Rome; sun, pizza, pasta, wine, amazing architecture (you get the idea!) so I’ve been a bit hard pushed to deal with all the new vacancies I’m working on (QSs, estimators, contacts managers etc) and speaking to all the new prospective candidates that my colleague Monika has tracked down like a blood hound. I have’t managed to come up with anything really interesting to say to you this week, so I have stolen one of Graham’s articles, my MD. He doesn’t mind, he says….The post IS fairly contenscious I warn you!.
I’d really like YOUR opinion please
With credit to Graham Martin, MD at Orchard
Jo Rider, Head of White Collar Construction Recruitment Services , August 2015
Jo@orchardjobs.com
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| I was fascinated to read in the Evening Standard this week that 1 in 4 staff had left a business because their bosses had hidden information from them.
Now, call me ‘old fashioned’ (well I AM 53 after all) but back in the day we NEVER shared information about how a business was really doing, whether fantastically well or on ‘the ropes’! Certainly my own bosses (when I was employed 30 years ago) would never share such delicate information; with the exception of whether we’d hit our sales targets on not.
But today, it’s all change. A survey by Gekoboard indicated that 4 out of 5 employees wanted their bosses to share more information with them concerning the business.
“With half of British staff saying that company information had a significant impact on how they contributed to the overall performance of the organisation they worked for, data transparency clearly has a great link to productivity & efficiency. In fact, more than 90% said they’d rather hear bad company news than be left in the dark when they might think that matters are even worse than they really are”
And indeed my approach has changed significantly over the years, whether it’s my more grown up approach, whether we are more ‘inclusive’ or whether my staff seem genuinely more INTERESTED…I don’t quite know.
All I do know is that ‘mushroom management’ doesn’t work…the game, as it were is ‘UP’!!
Graham Martin
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