Conversations with Dr Magwegwe Episode 4: HR Practitioners are themselves a major cause of stress in the workplace

Who would have thunk it. Employees take more to a Human Being as a manager than to a machine towing the party-line! Dr Frank Magwegwe from GIBBS Business School has a way of stating the obvious that is inspiring.

In this episode Frank and I discuss how differently Women are impacted by so many things coming at them from completely different directions and why its a miracle that women generally are as productive as they are in the workplace given what they have to cope with.

In this discussion with Dr Magwegwe, I come to realise that a Manager is the meat in the sandwich between Employers on the one-hand and those that sit in their lofty offices making strategic decisions which impact the wellness of all employee's, without too much concern for those employees. Add…

In this episode, Frank and I chew the cud on why only the largest of the largest businesses would ever in vest in Employee Welfare with dedicated resources. Because the majority of players in any Industry are SME's the solution is working with Business Associations to establish a mechanism which…

In this episode of the Contemporary Business Podcast, I chat to Dr Frank Magwegwe, from the GIBBS Management School on research he has conducted amongst 500 employees in South Africa. Stress Management and the development of interventions to improve your ability both, to monitor your own levels of stress and…