Agile

Theory X, Theory Y and Prophecies

Exploring Employee Supervision and Management Style. In brief, Theory X and Theory Y, formulated by Douglas McGregor at MIT Sloane School of Management in the ‘60s, are about Management’s attitude to […]

December 17, 2013

Management

How to Lose Your Strategic Thinkers

I noted on one of the forums a few weeks ago, one lady commented that she knew her efforts to instil new thinking had been successful when the subjects started […]

December 3, 2013

Youmanage

Document Audit – Youmanage Update

“The worry has always been whether employees would bother to read staff handbooks or company policies. This document audit feature is a great addition to Youmanage.” Jim Caldwell, Director, William […]

November 19, 2013

Youmanage

Latest Youmanage HR Software Release

A Focus On Client Need The latest in a series of planned roll-out phases on the newest Youmanage Version 3 platform targets the top 10 product feature enhancements and most […]

November 18, 2013

Youmanage

New Absence Planner Launched

“We love it! It’s so clear and very easy to use”, Pamela Finbow, HR Director, MacDonald & Company. This new capability was the final stage in the replacing of all […]

November 16, 2013

Youmanage

CEO writes bagpipe tune for launch

After threatening to write a tune to coincide with the relaunch of Youmanage, and the release of version 3.1 to existing clients, Nick composed ‘Youmanage’, a jig, to create something […]

November 3, 2013

Agile

Demotivational Tools – Reward and Recognition

Hold on, surely you mean “Motivational”? I hear you say. I was in a discussion on one of the Forums recently and the topic came up of how to motivate […]

October 14, 2013

Agile

Do you want to foster Collaboration or Competition?

In previous articles I have dwelt on problems – now I shall start giving back, with one or two solutions that might be appropriate in some contexts. Much of the way we […]

September 20, 2013

Youmanage

Announcement: Youmanage v3118 Release

Intuitive By Design As part of our on-going plan to deliver improved functionality and intuitive design, we applied yet another upgrade to the Youmanage HR Software service, released overnight on […]

September 18, 2013

Youmanage

Development Team Expansion

We all welcome our newest Team Member, Jason Graham, a Post-Graduate student from Stirling University, to the Youmanage HR Software Development Team. We approached Dr Mario Kolberg, Senior Lecturer at […]

September 8, 2013

Management

Simple, Complicated, Complex or Chaotic?

Simple, Complicated, Complex or Chaotic? Wishful thinking might tempt you to classify your work as one of the more ordered categories. Yet such wishful thinking is doing your organization a […]

August 31, 2013

Youmanage

New Dashboard Interface

Due to another recent focus of wonderful development work specifically centred around ease of use and to make Youmanage more rewarding and intuitive, we’ve changed the ‘Landing Pages’ associated with […]

August 29, 2013

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