What can business learn from the military? As Wayne hears on the Working Week this week, its not command-and-control management but lessons about trust, the value of relationships and how to build partnerships.

On the Working Week this week, Wayne talks to regular Management-issues contributor, Philip Whiteley, about management's continuing obsession with financial metrics at the expense of all the other inputs that drive them.

What's the connection between how people feel about their jobs – and how engaged they are at work – and the environmental and sustainability efforts of their employer?

In tough times, it's easy for a workplace to slip into negativity. But how do you create a positive workforce in negative times? That's the question Wayne poses in this week's show as he talks to Liz Jazweic, a passionate advocate of the benefits of good employee morale.

This week, Wayne is joined by Tony Watson, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Nottingham University Business School, to explore how endemic insecurity affects the behaviour of managers.

What business lessons can we learn from a woman running a micro-enterprise in a West African village? As Wayne hears from Mary Cantando on this week's show, the answer is "plenty".

In today's increasingly globalised world, trying to "wing it" cross-culturally can be a big mistake. As Wayne finds out this week, What you need instead is CQ - cultural intelligence.

Want to be a better boss? Then listen to this week's show as Wayne is joined by Dr Bob Nelson, author of Keeping Up in a Down Economy, to explore just what it is that makes a good boss.

This Week, Wayne talks to Adam Galinsky, the Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management at Kellogg School of Management, about the nature of decision-making in organisations and why it can be so hard to reverse poor decisions.

Amid all the hype and hysteria around swine flu, it's not surprising that companies are worried about the winter ahead and may be encouraging their staff to have a flu vaccine. But is that such a good idea? Listen to this week's show to find out.

This week, Wayne talks to writer and long-time M-I columnist, Jurgen Wolff, about his new book, "Marketing for Entrepreneurs". He finds out that marketing isn't about theory and metrics; its about telling your story.

It's a staggering fact that 40 per cent of new hires leave – either voluntarily or not - during their first 18 months. But why? To find out, Wayne is joined by George Bradt, founder of executive onboarding consultancy, PrimeGenesis.

We hear a lot about Generation Y: but what about Gen Z? As Wayne hears on the Working Week this week, today's 16-20 year-olds are sufficiently different to Gen Y that we really ought to give them their own label. So Generation Z it is.

How do you create an environment in which brilliant people can flourish? And how do you manage these people, particularly when you're not likely to be as clever as they are? That's the question Wayne explores this week with Rob Goffee, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School.

This week, Wayne discusses corporate social responsibility (CSR) with Athena Golinas, President of the AGW Idea Group, a Chicago-based marketing consultancy. So why is a marketing company so interested in CSR? The answer is all about reputation.

This week, Wayne explores the notion of corporate kindness with Kristin Tillquist, author of Capitalizing on Kindness: Why 21st Century Professionals Need to Be Nice - someone who believes that contrary to popular belief, nice guys and gals don't always finish last.

This week, Wayne is joined by Erik Van Slyke, one of the founders of change management specialists, the Solleva Group, to tackle one of those perennial management questions. Why is change so difficult - and what are the secrets of implementing successful change?

How can women get ahead in a male-dominated workplace? This week, Wayne talks to Suzanne Doyle-Morris, author of Beyond the Boys' Club: Strategies for Achieving Career Success as a Woman Working in a Male-dominated Field, a book she describes as "a career bible for women who work primarily with men".

This week, Wayne Takes a look at how organisations can use e-learning more effectively in the company of Pete Bennett, Chief Executive of Learning Resources International – LRI – a UK-based international learning and knowledge e-solutions provider.

Is the economic chaos of the past year merely another turn of the business cycle, or does it herald a fundamental restructuring of the economic order – the rise of "the new normal"? Charles Helliwell thinks not, as he tells Wayne on this week's show.

This week, Wayne explores performance management with Gary Ridge, who is co-author, with Ken Blanchard, of Helping People Win at Work and CEO of the Nasdaq-listed WD40 Company.

As far as many managers are concerned, HR is little more than a necessary evil, ticking boxes, filling in forms and contributing nothing except bureaucracy to company life. So why is HR is so vilified?

How can managers learn to deal with their emotions, particularly in a meeting situation or when they're frustrated and angry? To discuss this, Wayne is joined by Mick Quinn, author of The Uncommon Path.

What can managers learn from stand-up comedians? That's the subject of a new book by coach, author and speaker, Roger Edward Jones. It's also something that Wayne - who spent over 15 years working as a stand-up comic – has a few thoughts of his own about.

This week, Wayne talks to Bill Tate about his book, The Search for Leadership: An Organisational Perspective, and his systemic leadership model whose moral is: 'manage the fishtank, not the fish'.

The term "personal brand" is a pretty familiar one. But what about an online personal brand? This week, Wayne talks to personal branding specialist, Tessa Hood, about how to mange your personal brand when others can only see what you look like in photos.

The recession isn't just hitting people financially. It may also be taking a toll on people's mental health. Wayne explores this with Marie Apke, COO of Bensinger Dupont & Associates, a Chicago-based employee assistance company.

For our 100th show, we tackle the perennial scourge of bullying bosses - the issue that is the most common subject of questions sent to our advice clinic and features prominently in questions and comments made on the site.

Are company boards doing their jobs properly? How should companies and their boards work together? What about the role of independent directors? How are they and how are they recruited?

Alan Lurie is the Managing Director of a New York real estate firm. He is also an ordained Rabbi whose weekly staff meetings start off with his thoughts on things not related to real estate - like authenticity, balance, honesty, happiness, humor and how to understand difficult times.

Why does work get such a bad press in both popular and highbrow culture? From Dickens to Zola to the Who, work always seems to be displayed in a negative light, the 9-5 as the enemy of the free soul.

This week, Wayne is joined by Dinah Bennett, director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at Durham Business School in the UK, to discuss "the new normal" - what the business environment might look like when we finally emerge from the recession.

The first organisation we all signed on for – whether we wanted to or not – was our family. And as psychologist and author, Sylvia Lafair, tells Wayne this week, we bring our family dynamics from childhood with us to work – and the results are often not pretty.

This week, author John Man tells Wayne that Genghis Khan has a strong claim to be the greatest leader the world has ever seen and certainly somebody who can tell us much about the nature of leadership and what "greatness" in leadership really means.

This week, Wayne talks to spiritual teacher, Peter Tadd, about some of the more surprising and esoteric effects the economic crisis is having on attitudes and beliefs in the business world.

Wayne talks to Tom Karl from Mastery Works, a career development and talent management consultancy, about the right ways and wrong ways to handle job cuts, career paths and organizational change.

This week Wayne talks to Pauline Crawford, founder of Gender Dynamics, about her vision for a new blueprint for business that shifts the dynamic of the workplace from one that is inherently masculine to one where there is a balance between the masculine and the feminine within us all.

This week, Wayne talks to INSEAD Professor Dr Soumitra Dutta - author of the evocatively-titled book "Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom" - about the impact social networking is having in our personal and professional lives.

What does the financial melt-down tell us about the MBA? Has it had its day or does it need to be fundamentally re-thought? That's the subject of this week's discussion as Wayne talks to Ken Starkey, Professor of Management at Nottingham University Business School in the UK.

Wayne talks to Penny Power, co-founder of the business social network Ecademy, about the role social networks will play in our careers in future.