GENERAL mental ability (42,3 percent) is the best predictor of individual employee performance followed by job knowledge (23 percent) and integrity (21,2 percent). (more…)

  PEOPLE say structure follows strategy and that is true. You should leverage on your organisational structure to deliver on your strategy. In practice, though strategies change more frequently, structures are rarely made to mirror the strategic priorities of the business. (more…)

THE ability to spot signs of over and understaffing in your organisation is crucial given that staff costs represent a bigger part of the company’s operating costs. If you fail to spot these signs, your business will suffer in the long run due to high operating costs or…

AS I write, the special conference of the General Conference of World Methodists has just closed its doors, February 28. The local newspaper reports that Methodists, with the help of uncompromising African bishops have reconfirmed traditional marriage of man and wife as the only acceptable sacrament. (more…)

BECAUSE of the provocative influence of US President Donald Trump, our brothers say that they have to fight battles of identity and acceptance of differences in values with their white brothers which they thought had long been won. (more…)

  EVERY year the police give statistics on road traffic accidents. While the roads are in a poor state, the quality of our drivers leaves a lot to be desired. The police attribute the cause mostly to human error which could have been avoided. (more…)

IN DEVELOPING the idea of setting aside February as a month to remember black contributions to mankind, Brother Carter G. Woodson, PhD, was alarmed at the insouciance of the educated African American in reference to his brothers. (more…)

DESPITE mounting scientific evidence that some employee selection methods have a very weak or have no predictive power, some companies still continue to use them. No wonder why such companies continue to struggle. When you use selection methods with high predictive power you are likely to outperform your…

  AS A young scholar in Scotland, I never quite understood why French President Charles de Gaulle was contemptuous of US culture, calling its extremism, a circus of the insane. (more…)