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Parlez-vous HR Européenne?

Typique. Absolutement typique. La même vielle histoire. Angleterre avait 64% du play, mais Barry fait un give-away goal sur une assiette. Désastre. Catastrophe Quelquefois, je me demande pourquois je bother But I wonder how much of England’s mauvais football...

Published 30 Jun 2010 8:52 AM by HR Case Studies
Adidas announce strategic U-turn on recruitment outsourcing

When Brazilian striker Luís Fabiano commented: "It’s supernatural! All of a sudden it changes trajectory on you!” he was speaking of the Adidas Jubulani football. He might, however, have been speaking of the HR Strategy of the Adidas Group, who have...

Published 29 Jun 2010 9:11 AM by HR Case Studies
Revolutionary manager guides England to World Cup victory (Brazil 2014)

In 2014 when a relatively inexperienced manager guides England to World Cup glory, the business community will inevitably seek to learn what it can from the managerial and leadership style and structure of the victorious team. The successful manager will...

Published 28 Jun 2010 3:45 PM by HR Case Studies
Another survey on employee retention. Another load of nonsense.

Like all of you, my e-mail inbox is regularly filled with the 21st Century equivalent of advertisements for snake oil. Personally, I'm not in the habit of sending off for miraculous herbal medicines, teeth whitening compounds or guaranteed weight...

Published 22 Jun 2010 11:14 PM by HR Case Studies
What motivates you?

If you're expecting a detailed discussion on motivation, then I'm afraid that you'll need to look elsewhere! Today's HR Case Study is more of a diary entry to capture the feeling of job satisfaction and pleasure gained from spending much...

Published 21 Jun 2010 6:24 PM by HR Case Studies
England: Eleven Players, Eleven Questions!

Readers of HR Case Studies will no doubt have their own questions to ask after England's commiserable, deplorable, inadequate, lamentable, miserable, pitiful, useless, woeful, grotty, wretched performance on Friday evening. But here are a few HR related...

Published 19 Jun 2010 4:24 PM by HR Case Studies
Wayne's a lumberjack and he's OK (hopefully!)

Wayne and Colleen Rooney and the England Squad in l ast minute team-building activity yesterday Even though today is his birthday, I'm sure that Fabio Capello will be giving consideration to the most effective may of motivating the members of his...

Published 18 Jun 2010 8:45 AM by HR Case Studies
Nine simple steps to becoming overwhelmingly charismatic

Don't you just love it when what appears to be a dry and dusty piece of academic literature suddenly offers a thought-provoking insight into an important issue? Browsing through (as one does!) and article entitled "The effective use of power"...

Published 17 Jun 2010 7:52 AM by HR Case Studies
The Fabio Capello business lesson

This man is not Fabio Capello OK, no doubt when Peter Crouch directs a winning header into the top left-hand corner of the net in the 89th minute of the World Cup Final on July 11th, all doubts about Fabio Capello's managerial ability will disappear...

Published 13 Jun 2010 11:11 PM by HR Case Studies
The ten best excuses for not paying minimum wage

The National Minimum Wage (NMW) is the minimum amount per hour that most workers in the UK are entitled to be paid. Currently the National Minimum Wage for workers aged 21 and over is £5.80 per hour (though all rates are due to increase in October 2010...

Published 11 Jun 2010 9:05 AM by HR Case Studies
Overworked Americans can't use up their holiday entitlement

Yesterday's HR Case Study considered the clearly outrageous suggestion from across the Atlantic that the unemployed should be actively discouraged from applying for vacant job positions. HR Case Studies: HR: How can you be so stupid? The feedback...

Published 10 Jun 2010 9:29 AM by HR Case Studies
HR: How can you be so stupid?

There are times, my fellow HR Professionals (and I use the term lightly) when I am ashamed to be counted as one of your number. A job advert recently appeared (in the USA, it has to be said...) which stated that job applications would not be accepted...

Published 9 Jun 2010 9:23 AM by HR Case Studies
The six habits of the rich and famous

A book with a title of “The Protestant Work Ethic: Psychology of Work Related Beliefs and Behaviours” may not sound like every HR Case Studies reader’s cup of tea, but this somewhat scholarly work by Adrian Furnham (published in 1990) nevertheless laid...

Published 6 Jun 2010 3:00 PM by HR Case Studies
France worse than China in workplace suicides.

The media was buzzing last week when the UK launch of the Apple iPad coincided with two employees of the Chinese electronics firm Foxconn making suicide attempts, one of them successful. The 25-year-old worker who cut his wrists on Thursday was the 13th...

Published 2 Jun 2010 10:58 AM by HR Case Studies
Job Vacancy: Only the beautiful need apply . . .

Cornell University’s Department of Study into the Blindingly Obvious has just published a report indicating that in criminal trials, unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted than good-looking ones. Also, the unattractive also...

Published 1 Jun 2010 12:31 PM by HR Case Studies

June 2010 - Graham S

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Parlez-vous HR Européenne?

Adidas announce strategic U-turn on recruitment outsourcing

Revolutionary manager guides England to World Cup victory (Brazil 2014)

Another survey on employee retention. Another load of nonsense.

What motivates you?

England: Eleven Players, Eleven Questions!

Wayne's a lumberjack and he's OK (hopefully!)

Nine simple steps to becoming overwhelmingly charismatic

The Fabio Capello business lesson

The ten best excuses for not paying minimum wage

Overworked Americans can't use up their holiday entitlement

HR: How can you be so stupid?

The six habits of the rich and famous

France worse than China in workplace suicides.

Job Vacancy: Only the beautiful need apply . . .