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Headline: 21st Century auditing for 21st Century Auditing failures or Using Technology to Transform Auditing Ian with colleagues have developed an auditing approach that adds considerable more value to audit activity. Now being used by many organisations and having recently presented to 350 leaders of Japanese auditing he outlines the case for change to an [...]
Leadership the Productive and Moral Application of Influence Can you feel a culture; well I would like to believe that you can feel a climate which impacts upon and creates an organizations culture? We often hear the rhetoric around leadership, engagement, values and being humanistic but do we really understand what this means? We believe [...]
Behavioural Risk Management Challenging the Old “Make the invisible visible. Understand the true performance & risk picture before it’s too late” “Stop auditing the past by ticking boxes. Start understanding the future by assessing behaviour” When things go wrong it’s unusual for the system to fail it’s more likely to be a people and behaviour [...]
A Balanced Score Card Approach for Institutes of Higher Education Dr. Farida Virani ‘Budget 2011: Education on a high allocation boost. India plans to raise its expenditure in the education sector by about a quarter to Rs 520.6 billion (USD 11.50 billion) in the next financial year’, published on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 17:35, Source: [...]
May Surgeoner, formally Operations Director of University for Industry (Ufi) learndirect, asks whether e-learning in prisons can play a significant role in rebuilding the lives of offenders… It is widely acknowledged that providing offenders with opportunities to enhance their skills greatly improves their chances of employment after release and therefore the likelihood of reducing re-offending. [...]
Transactional or Transformational Leadership Change has never been popular “It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes in a state’s constitution. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only [...]
Four Windows of the Organisation A JoHari window is a cognitive psychological tool created by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham to help people better understand their interpersonal communication and relationships. It is used primarily in self-help groups and corporate settings as a heuristic exercise (this method is particularly used to rapidly come to a solution [...]
Change Management ultimately only succeeds by engaging hearts and minds. Organisational change can only be built upon team and individual change. Strong and supportive leadership can ensure that the individual changes support the organisational change. The nature of that support depends upon the characteristics of the organisation. Understanding organisational metaphors such as machine, political or [...]
Knowledge Management Defined In the last ten years we have all become acutely aware that central to any successful organization is managing all of the wisdom and know-how that exists. We spend an inordinate amount on educating our workforce and training them only to see them disappear out of the door for new opportunities, and [...]
Personal Ethics – An Essential Ingredient for Leaders of Tomorrow Ethics as called in Latin is Ethicus and in Greek Ethikos, stems from the word ‘Ethos’ which means the science of morals. A simple definition of ethics is: “a set of principles of right conduct”. Ethics serve as guidelines for analyzing “what is good or [...]