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Businesses that help employees balance work and family report productivity gains, low absence and high retention. Kate Horstead considers the benefits of making life easier for employees with family members to care for. Many businesses are reluctant to...
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The organiser of Work Wise Week , Work Wise UK has announced plans for this year’s week of events, which aim to highlight the benefits of flexible working for businesses and their employees. From 15-21 May, employers will be asked to allow staff to trial...
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Author: Alan Marshall Topic: Cultural awareness About: Global HR Consultants is a pan European company providing a global service in the area of HR administration and can assist you in a variety of ways from creating cost effective and competitive people...
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Author: Steve Passam, sales and marketing director, HR Access Topic: Succession planning About: HR Access HR Access is a leading global HR software and outsourcing specialist. The company is owned by Fidelity Investments, one of the largest investors...
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Author: Heather Collier, manager, National Council for Work Experience (NCWE) Topic: Work experience About: The National Council for Work Experience (NCWE) The National Council for Work Experience is part of HECSU, the Higher Education Careers Services...
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Source: World Business Date: January/February 2007 Author: Christopher Grey is professor of organisational theory at the Judge Business School (University of Cambridge) An historical comparison shows that all large organisations need and rely on bureaucratic...
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Source: World Business Author: Soumitra Dutta & Simon Caulkin Date: 17th January 2007 As with capital flows, for half a century the US has run a 'deficit' in engineers and technologists that has been made up by inflows from the rest of the...
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Source: World Business Date: June 2007 Review by Peninah Thompson of the book Off-Ramps & On-Ramps by Sylvia Ann Hewlett Businesses need to find new ways of keeping talented women in the workplace. Organisations that try to ensure they have access...
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Source: Management Today Date: February 2007 Author: John Morrish Not all your people are glossy high-flyers, so how do you keep the working majority fresh and bright, and tackle the dismal few who hold the firm back? Managing talent is one thing, but...
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Source: the HR DIRECTOR Date: February 2007 Dr Anthony Hesketh from the Centre for Performance-led HR, Lancaster University Management School, looks at why businesses must take a fresh loo at the complexities of talent in order to stay ahead of the competition...
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Source: World Business Date: Jan/Feb 2007 Author: Soumitra Dutta, INSEAD & Simon Caulkin Globalisation has pushed innovation to the top of the agenda, but which countries respond best to the new challenges? The World Business/INSEAD Global Innovation...
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Source: Management Today Date: November 2006 Author: Richard Reeves An orderly succession is hard to pull off. For Plcs, the short-term pain of a proper selection process must be endured to find the best person. Nobody will be taking lessons in successful...
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Source: the HR DIRECTOR Date: October 2006 There are various reports and surveys that state the average length of tenure of a FTSE CEO is now approximately only four years, down from ten years a decade ago. Lynne Hardman, Managing Director at Hays Human...
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Source: the HR DIRECTOR Date: October 2006 Launching a new business for a global company the size of WSP Group Plc sounds like plain sailing. But identifying and harnessing existing skills in a global business of 6,000 people, and delivering consistent...
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Source: World Business Date: October 2006 Author: Kate Ludeman and Eddie Erlandson, Harvard Business School Press If this complex set of characteristics becomes unbalanced, legendary strengths can turn into destructive flaws. Human history is the story...
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