People Management: Are your staff too skilled for their jobs?

In the article Dr Thomas Roulet, University Senior Lecturer in Organisation Theory at Cambridge Judge Business School, comments on over-skilled workers: “Organisations could consider reserving parts of the week for employees to work autonomously on projects of their own, in a similar way to what technology companies do to promote corporate entrepreneurship. If those employees are in low-skilled jobs, it’s likely they will have enough time beyond their job to do some out-of-the-box thinking, and work on more rewarding projects of their own.”

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