Productivity

Planning to quit your job this year? CareerBuilder asked 3,008 workers that very question–and found out who is most likely to change jobs in 2014, what employees value most in the workplace, and what ultimately entices them to stay.

‘Love” is a not word you often hear uttered in office hallways or conference rooms. And yet it has a strong influence on workplace outcomes. The more love co-workers feel at work, the more engaged they are. (Note: Here we’re talking about “companionate love,” which is far less intense than romantic love. Companionate love is…

Microsoft has decided to dump the practice of rating individuals’ performance on a numerical scale – a decision I applauded in a recent post. I argued that such rating systems don’t accomplish the task managers expect from them, which is to accelerate the performance of their people. At best, they serve other goals: allocating compensation…

Even if you can’t pay top dollar, how you hire and the strategies you use to retain people can make a major difference. FORTUNE — New Gallup research shows that only 13% of workers worldwide are actively engaged in their jobs, meaning they’re psychologically committed to doing their best and likely to make a strong…

MANILA — Instead of raising the minimum wage, the government, employers and workers should work on improving the productivity of employees.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has turned over P831.8 million in funds to several departments and agencies, state colleges and universities (SUCs), and government-owned or controlled corporations (GOCCs).

MANILA, Philippines – The head of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in the country said the Philippines still lags behind neighbors in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in labor productivity as he urged for stronger social protection for displaced workers and transparency in governance to attract investments.

MANILA, Philippines — The notorious traffic on Metro Manila’s roads is not just a daily annoyance that millions of Filipinos have to live by. The country loses billions of dollars worth of human productivity, according to a transportation official.

In the Philippines, the scenario is all too frequent: Employees calling in sick due to various illnesses like cold, fever, headache, body ache and pain. Sick or emergency leaves are filed to care for family members who fall ill. Chronic illnesses have become more prevalent with an alarming increase in the number of employees seeking…

“No one is indispensable.” This is the chant of managers and bosses, as they wield their job-position baton and “whip” their people into submission. This is absolutely untrue. Business owners don’t share the mantra. They know their businesses rely heavily on people who run and grow it successfully, and the moment those people leave, they’d…

MANILA, Philippines — Improving women’s access to jobs and economic opportunity could significantly boost worker productivity in the Philippines and the rest of the East Asia and the Pacific region by as much as 18 percent. A new World Bank report entitled, “Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific,” said that while gender…

MANILA — The Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) passed a five-point resolution on Tuesday calling for reforms in the labor market to improve competitiveness, productivity and sustain the country’s economic growth.

The discussion of pleasurable aspects of living continues with a general comparison of conditions of 20 or even 30 years ago with today. The topic shifts from food on the table to conveniences that permit us to be personally productive or more satisfied with consumption that we enjoy.

The Philippines needs to bring more competition into the economy to increase both high-quality employment opportunities and wages, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report said.

The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board- National Capital Region (RTWPB-NCR) yesterday said it is pushing for excellence in the health and wellness industry in the country and is developing a training support to showcase the innate Filipino qualities of “caring hearts and healing hands”.

Camarines Sur Rep. Diosdado “Dato” Macapagal Arroyo and Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo have initiated the institutionalization of the grant of an annual productivity incentive to all workers in the private sector under their HB 1218.

VISITING computer stores in this city reminds me a bit of David Letterman’s Stupid Pet Tricks—only the animals on the show are smarter than the sales clerks.

THERE’S another way of looking at yourself and determining the types of opportunities that you and your employees are most likely to take joy and pride in at work. Dave and Wendy Ulrich said that Marcus Buckingham and colleagues in his firm and the Gallup organization have also identified work-related skills and characteristics. The Ulrichs…

Remember when the Philippines was No. 1 in Asia and our Asian neighbors could only look on in envy and learn from us? That golden age can be ours again if we just learn to value excellence, according to a licensed clinical psychologist.

Message by Atty. Democrito T. Mendoza, President, TUCP during the National Productivity Convention, October 26-27, 2010 So, where is the money going? When production, productivity, incomes are rising in real terms – is P22 increase in minimum wage in Manila (much lower in other regions) all that this 2nd fastest growing economy in ASEAN in…

NEW YORK — Measuring the emotional intelligence of employees, from their ability to read body language to controlling frustration, could be good for business, according to a new study.

There’s a scene in Young Frankenstein, when Dr. Frankenstein meets Igor (Eye-gor) for the first time. He motions toward the disfiguring hump on Igor’s back and says, “I can fix that.”

We are an industry leader as a supplier to several food manufacturers. This may sound easy and too basic for most of our managers, but just the same, it appears that we just can’t avoid tardiness despite the fact that we have already suspended several employees. The trouble is that the suspensions became a self-inflicted…

THERE is a recent study that shows promoting values in the workplace helps improve productivity and reduce incidence of turnover.  Many companies nowadays are taking time to hold prayer breakfast for executives, Bible study for their employees or even just a few minutes of devotional and prayer before starting work in the morning.  Of course,…

MOST of us will spend the better part of our lives working. Despite this acceptance of work as a given, however, the experience of working is very different for each individual.

MANILA, Philippines – If your husband comes home with murder in his eyes, there’s a pretty fair chance that the stress of having to plod through Manila’s traffic jams is finally overwhelming him.

Have you ever experienced bullying in the office, avoiding a coworker because of a discourteous behavior or worse a boss who chews you or a co-worker out on a regular basis? Then perhaps we could relegate this to desk rage?

THE GOVERNMENT needs to help enhance workers’ productivity as part of efforts to improve employment to lift more people out of poverty, the new director of the Country Office of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Manila said in a statement yesterday.

The new country director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) on Monday said that he was backing labor policies of the Aquino administration, whose fight against poverty and joblessness would be carried out by “productivity and employment growth.”

Time is within your control. You’re probably asking, “How can you control time in a 24/7 environment?” Winners carry this secret with them all the time: Each man is given exactly 24 hours a day, but it’s how time is spent or wasted that spells success, mediocrity or failure.