Evidence Based Management - Rob Briner
Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture
Bruce Daisley
4.7 • 989 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Rob Briner is an professor of organisational behaviour at London Queen Mary’s University - he's rated the top HR thinker in the UK. This is a brilliant chat. Very much essential listening for anyone interested in HR but also worth listening for those of us who sit thinking ‘what do HR actually do?’ or what should we do to improve things round here.
We talk about ‘evidence based management’ - which you can find out more about here: The Centre for Evidence Based Management. I’d researched it but he explained it way better. He ends up giving me his take on work culture and lots lots more.
Rob outlines some of the pitfalls that any of us make when we set about fixing work. He also explains the challenges of psychology - discussing something called 'the replication crisis' about large scale studies.
Sign up to the Make Work Better newsletter or check out the best ever episodes at the website.
Eat Sleep Work Repeat is made and hosted by Bruce Daisley.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is Bruce Haysley. |
| 0:02.0 | What a wonderful episode we've got to |
| 0:04.0 | This is Eat Sleep Work Repeat, |
| 0:08.0 | a podcast about making work better. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello there, this is Bruce Taysley. |
| 0:12.0 | What a wonderful episode we've got today. |
| 0:14.0 | If you're starting the new year wondering how to improve your work, then today's episode will give you lots to think about. |
| 0:20.0 | Rob Bryan was not only voted the most influential thinker in human resources in 2016, but he's just been re-voted it in 2018. |
| 0:29.0 | Now before we go to the episode, just a couple of things to fill you in on. |
| 0:32.0 | Firstly, the Joy of Work, my book is out in just over a week |
| 0:35.8 | The Joy of Works for anyone who wants to make work better. I was chatting to a company the other day and they told me you might recognize this they told me that like a lot of us they felt |
| 0:44.8 | their culture was broken but the way to fix it seemed to be involving putting meetings in |
| 0:49.8 | people's diaries and everyone was just too exhausted so that when the meeting |
| 0:54.0 | requests went in everyone was moaning about them and weren't buying into the change. |
| 0:57.8 | If that sounds like your work then the joy of works for you. I'm convinced people |
| 1:01.8 | don't really read books so it's split into |
| 1:03.4 | 30 things that you can do either yourself or in your team or in your company so |
| 1:08.0 | just small slices you can try one or two of them along the way. Included in the book are discussions about the difference between team culture, company culture, |
| 1:17.0 | and there's a really clear model how to build a buzz culture in your workplace. |
| 1:22.0 | As you can see, the last eight or so |
| 1:23.6 | episodes of this podcast cover the police, hospitals, retail stores, so hopefully |
| 1:28.2 | it's clear that this isn't just for people in offices. So who is it for? It's sort of a troublemakers manifesto really. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bruce Daisley, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Bruce Daisley and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.