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Choose the number next to the answer that describes your organization.
A. ___ of our management personnel display visionary leadership or solid people management skills.
1. Less than 25% 2. About 50% 3. More than 75%
B. ___ Jobs in our company are carefully matched to employees thinking styles, behaviors and interests in order to maximum job fit and improve employee engagement, talent retention and reduce turnover.
1. A few Executives. 2. All management and supervisory jobs. 3. Most white collar positions. 4. All.
C. ___ hours of training per year are required for most people in our company in addition to required professional CEU's or licensing requirement training.
1. Less than 40 hours 2. At least 60 hours 3. More than 80 hours 4. At least 100 hours.
D. ___ per year, the company makes a concerted effort to update all of our employees on progress toward business goals, our business environment, products and plans for the future.
1. Once. 2. Twice. 3. Four times. 4. 12 Times. 5. 52 Times.
E. ___ each year our management personnel are evaluated by their peers, subordinates and superiors (or customers) in a 360o survey process and implement action plans to address important improvement opportunities.
1. Never happens. 2. Once a year. 3. Twice a year.
F. ___ employees who interface with customers through sales, customer service or other channels are trained and coached in customer service skills and aligned with the organizational goals.
1. A few 2. Just Sales & Customer Service. 3. All
G. ___ of our managers provide ongoing performance feedback to their direct reports and are trained to coach and develop their employees skills.
1. A few 2. About half 3. Most 4. All
H. ___ of our products and processes are driven by meaningful data, collected in an ongoing manner about customers satisfaction, needs, preferences and uses of our products and services.
1. A few 2. About half 3. Most 4. All
___ Sum the numbers for all eight answers and read SCORING on the next page.
S C O R I N G
Top Score is 30. Bottom Score is 8.
- If you scored 23-30 you work for a good company that might even be on it s way to become a great company. Good management practices are already in place to help sustain continuous improvements and they will be needed in the future.
- If you scored between 15 and 22 you work for an average company that has some great opportunities to improve results by focusing more on developing the organization, management practices and people. if it intends to survive in a global economy it must begin implementing good management practices & behaviors at all levels now.
- If you scored between 8 and 15 you probably keep your resume updated and even listed on a couple of job boards. Your company might be OK now, but it isn't always fun to work there and sometimes it's damn tedious. You have many opportunities to improve your business results by focusing more on your people and improving management practices. If you don't start now, you won't be here long.
"Multinational companies have been forced to take a systematic approach to management. Only by having strong, effective management practices in place have they been able to replicate the same standards of performance across different regions, cultures and markets. Today, they are reaping the benefits of this effort in terms of higher productivity, better returns on capital and more robust growth.
The same benefits are easily accessible to other organizations, wherever they operate. Yet surprisingly few firms have made any attempt to gain an insight into the quality of their management behaviors. Those that do so give themselves the opportunity to access rapid, cost-effective and sustainable competitive advantage.
... Relentless improvement in educational standards is also essential. Better-managed firms need more highly skilled workers and they make better use of them, while better educated managers will be a key component of the performance transformation that both established and emerging economies must undertake if they are to maintain and improve their global competitive position. "
From Management Practice & Productivity: Why They matter
November 2007 | Management Matters | 10
Nick Bloom, Stanford University,
Stephen Dorgan., McKinsey & Company
John Dowdy, McKinsey & Company,
John Van Reenen , Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
On the Internet at: http://www.stanford.edu/~nbloom/ManagementReport.pdf