Centre for Business Performance
Comments on report: Performance Management in UK HIgher Education Institutions: the need for a hybrid approach
Hi Mike, Hope you are well. I stumbled across your paper (Franco-Santos et al, 2014) via linked in and would like to congratulate you and your colleagues on an excellent piece of work. From my ...
Report warns universities are in danger of stifling their own success
New research conducted by Cranfield School of Management on behalf of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE) shows that, in response to pressures to perform, universities may in fact be damaging their own future ...
Communities of Practice
No one is more surprised than me that my thesis has potential. You see, as a student in Cranfield University’s MSc Managing Organizational Performance, I initially struggled with my thesis. I focused on organizational learning, ...
Business models
How does your organisation deliver value to your customers and your owners? Over the Christmas period, our minds turned to kitchens (new floors rather than completely new kitchens luckily). Howdens Joinery Co have been advertising ...
Chaos as Normal
Christmas is the time of good cheer, goodwill to all and long distance travel. And so it was for me this Christmas. My journey from the South of England to Edinburgh was relatively easy with ...
Taking out the performance review
At the CIPD performance management conference today, Simon McDougle explained how and why Adobe took out the annual performance review. Why would you do that? Simply, the negative impact and poor morale it was causing ...