How the world manages, one country at a time
Trendemic documents management practices in each of the world’s 195 countries, from sources in the local language. Pick a country on the map, or search by practice.
Point at a country to see what has been documented there.
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- AI and the organisation of workfirst practices in review
How companies reorganise jobs, teams and management once AI tools enter daily work.
- Decisions and governancefirst practices in review
Who gets to decide what, how decisions are made and challenged, and who checks the people at the top.
- Health and wellbeing at workfirst practices in review
Workload, stress, safety and the policies companies use to keep people able to work.
- Leadership and the manager rolefirst practices in review
What managers actually do all day, how the job is defined, and what happens when a company changes it.
- Learning and skillsfirst practices in review
How people learn on the job, how skills are built and passed on, and who pays for it.
- Organisation and structurefirst practices in review
How work is divided up: teams, units, layers, and what replaces the org chart when a company drops it.
- Pay and recognitionfirst practices in review
Salaries, bonuses, ownership and recognition, including who sees what everyone earns.
- Working time and placefirst practices in review
Hours, weekly schedules and where people work, plus the rules on contact outside working hours.
Latest practices
The first practices are in source review. They will appear here as soon as each one has been checked.
How a practice gets in
- Spotted at the source. National business press, academic journals and company reports, read in their original language.
- Sorted. Each practice gets a country, a family and, where it fits, a current. Duplicates are merged.
- Drafted. A fixed template keeps the original term, the origin, how it works, who uses it and what critics say.
- Checked by a person. No practice goes live until its origin is named: an organisation that runs it, a study that documents it or a thinker who coined it.
The full rules are on the method page.
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Trendemic Weekly, free: the practices published that week. Trendemic Field Notes, paid: country comparisons, entries still in source review and what it would take to apply a practice elsewhere.