2020 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

Online > Web Feature Series > Northeast

Awarded to

Bhushan Sethi, Carol Stubbings, Laurent Probst, Christian Scharff, Darren Homer, John Francis, Deniz Caglar, Carrie Duarte and Augusto Giacoman

Entry details

Good Work

Issue or publication date: February 18, 2019
Publication name: strategy+business
Publishing company: PwC
Website home page: https://www.strategy-business.com

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

The mission of strategy+business (s+b) is to provide business executives and thought leaders in government, academia and the private sector with commentary, research, and practical ideas that bridge the gap between management theory and practice. We feature writing by chief executives and other well-known corporate leaders, best-selling business thinkers and philosophers, prominent academics and researchers, seasoned consultants, and journalists with a track record in revealing the patterns below the surface.Through in-depth feature stories, thought leader interviews, and strategic commentaries, each issue of strategy+business provides an informed, global perspective on ideas and practices relevant to large-scale corporations. According to a recent study analyzing s+b’s circulation, 38 percent of s+b print readers are C-suite executives ranked vice president or higher. Our audience includes decision makers at small firms, managers rising within large companies, prominent academics, and others with an interest in understanding the business and management systems, practices, and ideas that define our world.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

To stay competitive companies must provide employees with a good experience at work — including what goes into creating that experience, why upskilling for the jobs of tomorrow is key, how to enact workforce transformation, how to get middle management on board, and why companies need to take steps to ensure the talent they hire is less likely to quit.

“Good work,”by people and organization experts Bhushan Sethi and Carol Stubbings outlines why today’s employees want jobs that are intrinsically rewarding and that fit their values. And though the meaning of work is different for each person, companies that act now to address these demands will gain a lasting competitive advantage.

In “A strategist's guide to upskilling,” Laurent Probst and Christian Scharf acknowledge that part of a “good work” experience involves ensuring talent is prepared for the jobs of tomorrow. To get employees ready for the jobs of tomorrow, upskilling is only part of the answer as Deniz Caglar and Carrie Duarte point out in their article “10 principles of workforce transformation.”

As businesses put trillions of dollars into transformations, leaders also need a plan to ensure that middle management is helping make the most of the investment, explain Carol Stubbings, Darren Homer, and John Francis in “Thawing the frozen middle.” In a final article, “The turnover remedy,” authors Augusto Giacoman and Deniz Caglar explain why it's important to understand what drives employee turnover and address those elements in a way that will make new hires less likely to quit.

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Entry URL(s), if applicable:
https://www.strategy-business.com/feature/Good-Work?gko=89684
https://www.strategy-business.com/feature/A-strategists-guide-to-upskilling?gko=0bb8b
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Thawing-the-frozen-middle?gko=23a42
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/10-principles-of-workforce-transformation?gko=d9b8b
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/The-remedy-for-high-turnover?gko=46566

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