Phil Abernathy on Employee Happiness and the Bureaucracy Mass Index

Engineering Culture by InfoQ

• Episode: Phil Abernathy on Employee Happiness and the Bureaucracy Mass Index
• Website: Engineering Culture by InfoQ
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• Duration: 00:20:14
• Published: 2019-04-16 10:50

In this Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Phil Abernathy about his work helping organisations focus on employee happiness to drive customer happiness and shareholder return and the Bureaucracy Mass Index as a tool to identify where companies are bloated and ineffective. He also spoke about what’s needed for real transformation. Why listen to this podcast: • Great companies are realising that in order to attract great talent you have to have a great place to work • If you have complex systems and complex processes, the root cause will be complex structures • The organisational BMI – the Bureaucracy Mass Index, the proportion of enablers to doers. A healthy BMI is around 10%, whereas in many organisations it gets to be as high as 40% • Having clear objectives that are visible to the while organisation enables good decision making; Objectives and Key Results are one tool to achieve this • Organization transformation must include mindset and culture as well as structure and roles More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2XhBYCO You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2XhBYCO