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Name of weekly column: Sprog This week's contributor: Gareth Chick , director, Spring Partnerships Have you noticed that in economic downturns management metaphors disappear overnight? No one is talking about rationalization - it's just plain...
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Christopher Davies , professional support lawyer, Halliwells Raef Bjayou and Alex Wotherspoon were this week’s project managers leading their respective teams in the task of creating a television advert for tissues. Raef’s team lost as the advert, while...
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An online applications system has enabled Kent University to revolutionise recruitment, leading to lower costs and soaring quality. Breaking new ground in higher education recruitment, the University of Kent, recently voted the number one university in...
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Talent management to become key differentiator for companies competing in global marketplace - growing skills shortages require new role of HR to succeed in competition for qualified workforce. Finding talent, developing talent and keeping talent will...
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A new study, conducted by global management consultancy Hay Group , which spanned 1,003 companies in 80 countries, revealed that more than 30% of companies are freezing or considering freezing base salaries as a direct result of recent economic events...
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The most famous 12-week long interview has started. As we all know employment law is very much alive and kicking in the workplace and is something every boardroom needs to be on top of. So, is Sir Alan Sugar an HR dream or nightmare? Expert employment...
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Even if you are struggling to find skilled staff and bringing in work experience students may seem a leap too far for you, the National Council for Work Experience (NCWE) shows you how implementing work experience programmes can help bridge the gap. Organisations...
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More than half of senior executives predict business performance will suffer because their leaders are not up to scratch, with chief financial officers most likely to blame failure on poor leadership. These are the main findings of a new report, Growing...
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A change in leadership need not be traumatic if you have the right people with the right skills swimming in your talent pool. Two-thirds of managers who participated in Roffey Park’s 2008 Management Agenda confirmed that change is the biggest challenge...
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There have been some interesting reactions on a number of HR blogs to Seth Godin’s post, 'Marketing HR' . Noting that ‘Human Resources’ is an increasingly inappropriate name for the way that organisations are managing their people, Godin suggests...
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How does a UK HR generalist become an international HR expert? Alan Marshall, managing director of Global HR Consultants, explains that while the world continues to shrink as businesses expand into Europe via the EU expansion or globally as India and...
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This past week, there’s been more coverage in the traditional and new media focusing on the impact of the credit crunch, and its consequences for people management. The Sunday Times has drawn attention to the British Chambers of Commerce forecasts of...
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In a speech addressed to HR professionals within the financial and professional services sector earlier today, Mervyn Davies, CBE, chairman of Standard Chartered Plc, urged HR delegates to adapt to a fast changing world, else companies would go bust....
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While the credit crunch might be dismissed in boardrooms as a short-term speed bump, it would be folly for Western businesses rushing to invest in high-growth Asian economies such as China and India to ignore the clear signs of longer-term talent shortages...
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A recent survey from the Adecco Institute that maps out demographic business trends in Europe reveals that the UK spent its second year at the top of the Demographic Fitness Index. The Demographic Fitness Survey 2007 which sampled over 500 interviews...
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