This week, the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) issued their annual report on the levels of trustworthiness of organisations in the UK. The research, which has been carried out each year for the last 3 years, shows that levels of trust in organisations has generally risen over the three year period which, given the delicate state of the economy and the obvious current lack of trust in Politicians, Bankers and News of the World Journalists, it shows that businesses are actually moving in the right direction !
One extremely interesting observation is the finding that CEO's in large public sector organisations and found to be less trustworthy than their counterparts in Private or Third Sector organisations and this probably reflects the ongoing unease over public organisational change sector cost reduction activities.
The report can be downloaded from the ILM Website.
I came across an excellent report this week published by CIPD looking at trends in sickness absence. The report contains some extremely interesting findings. CIPD report that "for the first time....stress is the most common cause of long-term sickness absence for both manual and non-manual employees. Public sector respondents identify organisational change and restructuring as the number one cause of stress at work, highlighting the impact of public sector cuts to jobs, pension benefits and pay freezes. Job insecurity is also reported as a more common cause of work-related stress in the public sector this year."
While this may not come as any great surprise, it is interesting to see evidence of elevated stress levels caused directly from organisational change activity and, if evidence were needed, points out the importance of effective and competent management of change within organisation.
The full report can be downloaded from the CIPD Website.
This week, the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) issued their annual report on the levels of trustworthiness of organisations in the UK. The research, which has been carried out each year for the last 3 years, shows that levels of trust in organisations has generally risen over the three year period which, given the delicate state of the economy and the obvious current lack of trust in Politicians, Bankers and News of the World Journalists, it shows that businesses are actually moving in the right direction !
