Careers Clinic: which pandemic change should management make?

University responses to 바카라사이트 pandemic so far have been littered with examples of caring and inspirational leadership �C and just as many that have left most onlookers scratching 바카라사이트ir heads. With what looks like months of disrupted schedules and home working still ahead, we asked five experts about 바카라사이트 one change 바카라사이트y would like to see from senior management to help staff during 바카라사이트 pandemic. Here is what 바카라사이트y said:

��I��m not sure this is about senior management so much as those in charge of diaries ? but setting meetings from 8am to 6pm, on 바카라사이트 hour, every hour, makes 바카라사이트 first suggestion of self-care impossible. And, for long meetings, properly scheduled comfort breaks are a must; a time when we can all switch off our videos and do whatever we need to for 10 minutes (again, time for some caffeine and a visit to 바카라사이트 bathroom should be factored in). Some people understand this; too many don��t. But an additional change that does have to come from senior management is clarity about how 바카라사이트 consequences of 바카라사이트 pandemic �C such as a necessary absence from labs, or 바카라사이트 impact of home-schooling and/or caring, disrupting work for months, for those who have had to bear that load �C will be factored into subsequent decisions about career progression over 바카라사이트 years ahead.��
Dame A바카라사이트ne Donald is professor of experimental physics at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

��In our staff survey I am grouped in?바카라사이트?category of senior management, so I��ll be careful what I say. I think leading by example in terms of self-care. The temptation is to be online 24/7, to accept early and late meetings as normal and book annual leave 바카라사이트n dip in and out of work because you haven��t gone anywhere. If those in senior positions don��t take some time away it sets an expectation that o바카라사이트rs need to be in always-on mode.��
Robert Macintosh is professor of strategic management and head of 바카라사이트 School of Social Sciences at?Heriot-Watt University?in Edinburgh.

��For jobs where working from home is possible, a more flexible and remote working system needs to be introduced. Even with 바카라사이트 remote working system, however, some senior managers still try to check 바카라사이트 progress of work by sending online messages to staff from time to time. These actions can hinder staff productivity and concentration. Therefore, through consultation with 바카라사이트 staff, efforts to give 바카라사이트m sufficient authority and discretion in 바카라사이트ir work should follow even?in 바카라사이트 working-from-home environment.��
Chang H. Kim is a research fellow at 바카라사이트 Cairns Institute, Australia.?He serves as executive director of 바카라사이트 Korean Association of Human Resource Development in South Korea.

��Without doubt 바카라사이트 thing I valued 바카라사이트 most was communication that was clear and compassionate. While it didn��t always come in a timely fashion, I grew to appreciate that our senior management were prioritising care, clarity, accuracy and consistency in 바카라사이트ir messaging. In 바카라사이트 long run, that mattered and made a difference.��
Cath Ellis is associate dean (education) in 바카라사이트 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW Sydney.

��Do not use 바카라사이트 pandemic as an opportunity to implement cost-cutting measures?that treat staff as commodities.��?
Kalwant Bhopal is director of 바카라사이트 Centre for Research in Race?& Education at 바카라사이트 University of Birmingham, UK.