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As the business environment changes or if a Company grows, it is easy for the headcount to grow too large or the organisation structure to become "out of shape". From time to time, it is worth looking at an organisation from first principles, to ensure that it is constantly revised to ensure that it remains efficient.

There are four steps to take to maintain an organisation at its optimum efficiency:

1. Calculate what staff are required in the "front-line" to deliver your service or produce

An employer-employee relationship is both a financial and a social contract. All employers rely on the skills and endeavour of their employees, who are prepared to give up their time and energy in order that they can earn a living. Effective employer/employee relationships are those which are based upon both the spirit as well as the letter of the employment contract.

Good employers have the following attributes:

1. They think strategically to protect the business and the people that

The second half of 2008 will be long remembered as the period when the world's financial systems came close to collapse.

The reasons for this series of events are not yet clear and it may take both the passage of time and the efforts of historians before any real light can be shone on the subject. What is clear, however, is it is only the injection of tax payers' money which has saved the majority of financial institutions.

It is worth noting that financial institutions take much the same

It just means treating people like individuals and talking normally

In July 2009, the UK Government released a report, entitled "Engaging for Success: enhancing performance through employee engagement", by David MacLeod and Nita Clarke.

I welcome this report and it seems to me that this will apply in equal measure to large businesses and small ones. However, in the UK economy, 97% of businesses are Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). There are 4.7 million of them and I wonder how ...

Whilst many people try and defend the indefensible, some people are above it all and have true integrity and depth of character. Those are the true leaders and heroes even when things may have gone wrong.

The best example I have seen appeared in an edition of “IT Consultant” in July 2002:

On Sunday, Commander Farrington's ship hit Wolf Rock near Lord Howe Island, north of Australia. The Royal Navy are investigating how a guided missile destroyer with top-notch navigation equipment