The Smith Business Insight Podcast

Episode 16: BRAVE NEW WORKPLACE: Looming Issues

May 15th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  26 mins 27 secs

Robot bosses? Random safety checks at your home office? We may be careening into the unknown, but the workplace of the future will be guided by familiar human needs

Episode 15: BRAVE NEW WORKPLACE: Meaning

May 4th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  32 mins 52 secs

brave new workplace, business education, business ideas, business school, hr, hybrid teams, hybrid workplace, julian barling, managing teams, queen's university, remote, smith school of business, team management, virtual teams, virtual work

Engaging work and the chance to help others — not money or self-interest — are the ultimate job motivators. Someone forgot to tell the boss

Episode 14: BRAVE NEW WORKPLACE: Autonomy

May 1st, 2023  |  Season 3  |  27 mins 25 secs

brave new workplace, business education, business ideas, business school, hr, hybrid teams, hybrid workplace, julian barling, managing teams, queen's university, remote, smith school of business, team management, teams, virtual teams, virtual work

Members of the organizational elite expect to have a major say in how and where they do their own jobs. What will it take for them to get over their need to micromanage others?

Episode 13: BRAVE NEW WORKPLACE: Safety

April 19th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  32 mins 52 secs

The fallout from Covid has changed how we talk about the management of workplace health and safety

Episode 12: BRAVE NEW WORKPLACE: Leadership

April 19th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  31 mins 38 secs

A look behind the hero’s cape reveals the secrets guiding great leaders and the shortcomings of wannabes