FROM THE HR: Giving employees power to challenge management

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Most times staff will go into the meeting and decide to keep quiet and not ask any questions.

I happened to be managing a culture project and there were forums organised for staff to share their ideas on what kind of values would make the company a better place to work for. It surprised me that only a handful of staff were contributing to the discussions in the formal meeting. During break, I decided to walk to different groupings to network, I was surprised when I found one gentleman sharing in a loud voice the values he thinks would improve the organisation. He also had great ideas on how the values can be rolled out to the rest of the organisation. Yet during the formal meeting the gentleman only nodded but uttered not even a single word. I engaged him in confidence to understand why he was silent throughout the session, and his response was that he was not comfortable discussing in the presence of one of the staff who is his supervisor.

FROM THE HR: Giving employees power to challenge management

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