MI is very pleased to announce its latest project to create the tertiary education sector within OMINDEX by incorporating OMRs (organizational maturity ratings) for Universities from across the world. Funding and enrolments at universities across the globe are expanding significantly – but so is student debt ($1.45 trillion in US alone). Of course, the sector […]
Ten years after the crash of 2008, banks today might be more solvent but we still cannot trust them. Their underlying culture, where profit conflicts with societal value, has not changed. They persist in trying to justify their profit-driven behaviour with a wilful misinterpretation of the words of a Nobel prize winning economist from nearly […]
How do you explain an extremely complex subject in very simple terms that any ordinary citizen would understand? This is the challenge that I face every day as the Chair of the Maturity Institute. The core message is simplicity itself but its communication is complicated by different stakeholders interpreting it in different ways. MI’s simple […]
Before you read the analysis and assessment below please view the video – it only takes 9 minutes. Analysing the evidence – does Google manage its human resources professionally? First, the video itself; what is its purpose? Obviously Boston Consulting Group (BCG) must have thought that Google had something to teach the HR community […]
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Maturity as a management concept actually has a long history. This timeline shows how the Maturity Institute evolved and its response to some major influences on management thinking. 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2010 Kearns continues to teach his MBA course on ‘HR Strategy’ and alumni apply the lessons on assignments […]
Today MI formally submitted its response to Sir Richard Lambert’s Consultation Paper on banking standards. The key issues are around banking values, ethics, governance, human capital management and organizational behaviour – all very much part of MI’s goals and chosen remit.
I wrote a piece for the Guardian two years ago arguing that what was missing from the sustainability debate was a focus on the human element of organizations. I questioned how an organization could be truly sustainable if the people connected with it were not treated in a sustainable manner too, and that those organizations […]
How long does it take for mature thinking in HR to take hold? Let’s consider this question in relation to how the problematic topic of performance management has fared over the last 20 years or so. Back in 2000, I wrote in my book “Measuring and managing employee performance” (Financial Times Executive Briefings series) – […]
One unintended joke, often heard during the total quality ‘revolution’ of the 1980’s/90’s, was the statement – ‘Oh yeh, we did TQM some years ago’. Another was the widespread belief that a revolution in management culture had actually taken place. Manufacturers flocked to Toyota, to find out their secret recipe, and were made very welcome, […]