Companies keep slashing jobs, but new technologies won’t replace good management

There is also a constant need to replace departing Store Managers who have no promotional pathway remaining in their current store so pursue a new challenge elsewhere.
As technology improves, it’s tempting for company executives to slash jobs that are “standard” and “routine”, making them easy to automate. But research shows focusing on improving management practices will do more to improve companies’ bottom lines. In a study of 32,000 manufacturing firms, American researchers showed firms using certain management practices had 20 per cent better productivity than firms that neglected to use them. At the same time, integrating technology into

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