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A European Court case this week serves as a warning shot to employers who refuse flexible working requests from people who care for disabled relatives. Yet allowing employees to work from home can lower staff turnover, cut costs and increase productivity...
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Women’s pay still lags behind men’s in many sectors, despite almost forty years of equal pay legislation. Simon Outten (SO) of leading law firm Steele Raymond clarifies your responsibilities and irons out one or two areas of uncertainty. 1. We’re recruiting...
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Creating and implementing a corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy can improve morale and enhance your company’s public image. Ben Harris, founder and Managing Director of marketing agency New Brand Vision, explains what it is and how to do it....
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Vodafone takes its Corporate Social Responsibility seriously. Matthew Brearley, HR director at Vodafone UK, tells us why the Corporate Responsibility Programme is an important aspect of the organisation. Can you give us a brief outline of your Corporate...
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Source: World Business Date: April 2007 Author: Simon Caulkin, World Business An assumption about globalisation is that it is a process of convergence on norms that are under the control of the giant companies of the West. Whether in Bangalore, Bamako...
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Source: Management Today Date: January 2007 Author: Richard Reeves Dividing the spoils more equally can make for happier people and better businesses. Give staff a stake in the firm and the chance to add value. Is the pay gap between men and women getting...
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Author: Fiona Morden at Morden Solutions When to use this guide • Establishing a Diversity strategy for the first time • Refreshing a Diversity strategy • Seeking fresh perspectives for an existing programme 10 tips for implementing a Diversity Strategy...
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Source: Management Today Date: May 2007 Review by Nicola Mendelsohn on the book Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping talented women on the road to success by Sylvia Ann Hewlett If women are to progress at work, we need firms to champion best practice, argues...
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Source: Management Today Date: April 2007 Author: Michael Backman Dispersed ethnic groups have always had a disproportionate impact on economic life - what makes these networks so successful? Money makes the world go round. But what makes the money go...
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Source: the HR DIRECTOR Date: March 2007 “If a Lion could speak, we would not understand what it had to say” – Ludwig Wittgenstein Communicating well across cultures can give us a competitive advantage when good international collaboration is increasingly...
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Source: the HR DIRECTOR Date: December 2006 The coming into force of the age discrimination regulations, together with other directives, has prompted some european union member states to introduce new discrimination legislation or watch as the profile...
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Source: the HR DIRECTOR Date: December 2006 As employers get to grips with the regulations, Freda Line, Head of Employer Relations at the Employers Forum on Age, looks at the issues employers are wrestling with as they see things working in practice,...
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Source: the HR DIRECTOR Date: December 2006 “The need for better understanding of cultural influences on leadership and organisational practices has never been greater…” Different cultures have diverse concepts of leadership. Leadership can be autocratic...
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Source: World Business Date: October 2006 Author: Karl Moore To succeed across borders requires more than a few words of a foreign language - it needs an authentic interest in other cultures. More than ever before, senior executives and managers are required...
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Source: the HR DIRECTOR Date: Summer 2006 As a result of political change and the Good Friday agreement, and independent review of policing structures in Northern Ireland was set up and its report published in September 1999. Known as the pattern report...
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